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uLove a score of other rich oily seeds, at present collected only I'or the 
use of the natives, not to mention several rosins which yield the finest 
varnishes, plants giving the most brilliiint lines, and others witli fibres 
that would serve not only for the finest iveavings, hut also for the 
strongest ropes; besides about forty of the most indispensable drugs, 
all which might become most valuable articles of export. 
For the benefit of readers interested in botany, I subjoin a list of 
the most important of these plants, Avith lioth their Indian and their 
Latin names, Avhen I eoidd find them out. It is taken partly from 
^lartius’s Avorks, and partly from my own notes. 
Oils servlvo fob Cookixg, 
Fatima (Oenooarpii.s patauii, \ 
('aiauli6 (Elaois melaiioooooa.f Gtiertn.) 
Bacdlia (Ooiiocai'pus liacilba. 3fart.) 
Tucuman (Astrocaryimi tiicunm. Mart.) 
Assai (Entei'po edulis. Mart.) > g ■ 
Maraja (Haotris inaraja. Mart.) ^ 
Tupaty (Eapltia taedigera. Mart.) 
Ulbussn (Mimicaria saccifera. Mart.) ^ 
Inaja (Maxiiuiliana regia. Mari.) y | 
OllOItOlLS 
Cujumary (Ocotca ciijumary. Mart.) 
Cumaru (I)iptoryx odorata. JF.) (Tongu- 
hean. ) 
Eesins, Gcas, 
Camauba (Ooperiiieia cerifera. Mart.) 
Angico (Acacia angico. Mart.) 
Aliiieooga (Idea icieariba), tbo so-called 
sbam Elemi. 
Jataby, .Tatoba (Hymenaoa Martiuima), 
the so-called Aiiimd resiu. 
Sorva (Colophora utilis. Mart.) 
Maiigaba (Haucoruia spo-l Substitutes 
ciosa) L for india- 
Monpiqueira (?) j rubber. 
Lioimxo, SoAP.s, &c.* 
Oastaulioira ( Berth olletiaoxcelsa. Ilamh.) 
(j, . ( (Eecythis ollaria. Vclloso.) 
i..upucaia ( _4nbl.) 
Andiroba (Xylocarpus caropu. fipreny.) 
I'equia (Carica butyrosum. Mart.) 
Uaucu (Moiiopteryx naucii. Mart.) 
Ucuuba (Myi'isticu sebifera. Sw.) 
( )ILH. 
Fuchury (Xuctandra puchury. A'ees and 
Mart. ) 
Tamaquare (Lauriuea). 
Uixi-pucu (Myristica). 
Axn Milk-saps. 
Cajueiro (Auacardiimi occidoutalo. L.) 
Ucuuba (Myristica Siiriuamenais. Mari.) 
Cipo Macaco (?) 
Murure (?) 
Majiorouima (?) 
Pai-iry ( ? ) 
Massarauduba (Lucurua proeera), Milk 
or Cow-tree, Avith a rosin much like 
gutta-percha. 
* Though the riciuus, which also givo.s an excoUent lamp-oil, does not grow wild 
in Brazil, it yields profuse cixqis with scai’coly' auy trouble, and might boeomo another 
1 1 1 oney -producing art icle. 
f Of the samo family as Elam Gumemm (Jacq.), the Guinea oil-palm, or dende, 
whose thick, orange-coloured oil, made of the outer fleshy pulp of the nut, gives tliat 
peculiar flavour to tho liiglily pe 2 >pored national dishes of Bahia, which, from the 
kitchens of the black slaves, have found thnir Avay to the tables of their masters. 
J As the real coco-nut tree only thrives near tho seashore, it cannot well lio 
