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IMBUZEIRO. 



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other herb. By exposure to atmospheric air it changes 

 this colour for a fixed blue, which resists the lye of pot- 

 ash and soap. It is found in the mountains and low 

 lands of the Sertoens. 



Hekva Lombrigijeira, or Arapabaca, Spigelia an- 

 thelmia : — Lin. Sj/st. Veget. 



This plant has anthelmintic properties, and is sold in 

 our towns. It grows abundantly in argillaceous low lands. 



Urucu, Bixa Orellana. Lin. 



This is a shrub, and is worthy of cultivation from the 

 dye which the leaves afford ; but it is not cultivated by 

 any one in Pernambuco, not even as a curiosity. 



Pito.mbeira, Meleagrinex Pernambucana : — Arrud. 

 Cent. Plant. Pern. 



This tree grows to the height of 30 or 40 feet; the 

 timber of it is compact, and may be applied to some pur- 

 poses. It produces its fruit in large rounded bunches, 

 in capsules which do not open. It has a solid kernel of 

 two cotyledons, covered with a sweetish acid pulp, which 

 is not unpleasant. If turkeys eat of these kernels they 

 die immediately : from this circumstance I took the 

 name of the genus, of which I have only found two 

 species. 



Imbuzeiro, Spondia tuberosa : — Amid. Cent. Plant. 

 Pern, 



This is a tree which grows plentifully in the Sertoens 

 of Pernambuco and Paraiba. It produces a fruit which 

 is rather smaller than pullets' eggs, obovate, with five 

 points at the lower part, being the indications of the five 

 stigmata. Its colour is yellow, and below the coriaceous 

 epidermis, it retains a juicy pulp, of a pleasant sweetish 

 acid taste. With this juice, and milk, curds, and sugar, 

 a much-esteemed mess is made, called imbuzada. This 



