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the naked trunk. The fruits are Hke small apples 
to look at, and partly to the taste, but they are 
mawkish, like all their tribe ; and in reality they are 
berries, divided into twelve cells, and enclosing 
numerous minute seeds. 
Yenipapa [Geitipa macrophylla, sp. n. — Cincho- 
naceae — and other two new species) — Genipa ameri- 
cana, L., the most widely distributed species of the 
genus, I have seen wild in many places across the 
whole breadth of South America. In Peru it is 
called Huitu ; in Ecuador, Jagua. Its fruit (a large 
olive-green berry) affords a permanent black dye, 
and is in universal use by the Indians for staining 
their skins ; it is also pleasant eating, when allowed 
to become over-ripe, having then the consistence 
and much of the flavour of the medlar. Three 
kinds of Yenipapa grew along the shores of the 
Tapajoz, and proved to be all undescribed. One 
of them has leaves full i8 inches long, and globose 
fruits as large as a swan's egg. All have the same 
properties as G. americana. 
Uiran'-rana i^Stiychnos brasiliensis, Mart.). A 
small bushy tree, with twiggy, decussate branches, 
growing in the outskirts of Santarem, and bearing 
red three-seeded fruits, whereof the pulp is edible 
though insipid. I met with a second example of the 
occasional harmlessness of the fruits in this deadly 
genus on the river Uaupes, where the wild turkeys 
eat the berries of Strychnos rondeletioides, sp. n. 
^. brasilieiisis does not climb — at least I saw no 
example of it at Santarem — although the twiggy 
branches seem apt for it, should need occur. I did 
not meet with the plant elsewhere, but it is frequent 
farther south. 
