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tree throws out long horizontal roots, which penetrate 

 very little, and upon these are seen, at short distances, 

 round tubers of eight inches [hum palmo) in diameter, 

 full of water, like unto water-melons ; these supply the 

 vegetation of the tree in seasons of drought, and some- 

 times refresh the sportsman who has penetrated into the 

 woods. The reproduction of the tree is very easy by 

 means of shoots. 



Piranga, Bignonia tinctoria : — Arrud. Cent. Plant. 

 Pern. 



This is a fruit-bearing and sarmentose plant ; its leaves 

 yield, by boiling, a red dye, which can be made a fixed 

 dye upon cotton cloth, by means of preparations analo- 

 gous to those which are made for madder. 



Umari, Geoffroya spinosa : — Jacq. Stirp. Americ. 



This plant, which Jacquim found at Carthagena in 

 the sandy lands near to the coast, grows at Pernambuco 

 upon argillaceous low lands, upon which it arrives at 30 

 or 40 feet in height; in Carthagena, according to the 

 same author, it does not reach more than twelve feet. 

 The flowers are yellow, and have a smell which is similar 

 to that of the coco-oil ; those of Carthagena have a dis- 

 agreeable smell. May they not be two separate species ? 

 From the almond of this plant is extracted a white and 

 nutritive fecula, of which the inhabitants of the Rio do 

 Peixc, and of the Sertam of Paraiba do Norte make 

 much use. The plant grows very plentifully in the low 

 lands of those parts, and it is also to be met with in the 

 province of Rio Grande do Norte. 



Ipecacuanha treta, Ipecacuanha officinalis : — 

 Arrud. Cent. Plant. Pern. 



Until the present time the botanists of Europe have 

 not known to what genus this plant belongs. Some of 



