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THE AMAZON AND MADEIRA RIVERS. 
DyEDsT. SlirpFS.* 
TTrucd (Bixa Orellana. L.)\ Haraoutisirfi (?) 
Uvuturana (Bixa urucurana. }F.) Tutujuba (Madura ? ) 
TItaiuba (Myristica Surinumensis. Mart.) Muiratiugn (?) 
Carajiiru (Bignonia diica. Ilumh.) tTuariuba (Madura ? ) 
Tun MOST iMPOKTAXT OP THE Mehutxae I’eants. 
Sassafraz (Oeotea nmara. Mart.) 
Jlassarandiiba (Lueuiua 2irocera). 
Manqia (Quassia siniaruba. Z.) 
Buebury (Noctamlra jmdiury. Neet and 
Ifart.) 
Jiquitiba, Turury (Chiratari legalis). 
Cafi^ana ( ? ), substitute for ijuiuquiua. 
Jurema (Aeacia jurema. Mart.) 
Caaoquri, (Vismia mita-antba ami Vismia 
laccifera. Mart.) 
Andiroba (Xyloearjma caro2)a. Spreuy.) 
Cujumary (Oeotea cujuinary. Mart.) 
Mata-mata (?) 
Abutua (?) 
Amaj)d (?) 
Bnrbatimao (.Acacia adstringons. Jtet/sc.) 
!Manacan (Brunfdsia liojioana. lierith.) 
counted among the jjroducts of the forests of the interior. Even there the rich oil the 
nuts contain is seldom extracted. They are usually token down green for their cool, 
refreshing water, or sent ripe into the interior for making “ doee” (sweetmeats). 
The anil, or indigo, does not grow wild in the woods, and is not indigenous ; but 
it thrives so jdentifully there that we may hope to see it jdanted, and exjjorted on 
a larger scale in future years. The most valuable of all dyeing-woods — the Per- 
nambuco, or Brazilwood — Ccesalpinia echinata (Lanismik), called arabutan by the natives, 
is frequent in the South — in Pernambuco, Baliia, Minas, and Espirito Santo, and is 
still sent abroad as largely as ever. The red decoction of the wood gives, with the 
addition of an acid, a red deposit, while the liquid above it takes a yellow colour. 
With ammoniac, the deposit wiU be purple ; with alum, crimson ; with porehloride 
of tin, pink ; with acid protoxide of lead, dark red ; and with iron vitriol, violet. 
With corrosive sublimate of mercury, or sulphate of zinc, the Hquid gets of a bright 
yellow. 
t So called after the daring OreUana, who, in 1544, impelled by tlie hojio of 
becoming governor of the new countries, was the first to descend the Amazon, from 
Peru to the Atlantic. The fanciful description he gave of an attack he sustained at 
the mouth of the Nhamunda, from a horde of aimed women, originated the singular 
name of the river ; the whole story certainly being founded on a mistake, and his wish 
to make the most of his adventures. His Amazons, doubtless, wore only tlie squaws 
carrying the sjiare arrows of the fighting warriors, and answering the discharges of the 
Spanish blunderbusses with fearful yells. 
Iliecacuanha (Cephaelis ipecacuanha. 
Tussae and Richard . ) 
Salsajmrilha (Smilax Sy^ihilitica. Mart.) 
Copaiba (Copaifera Jacquini. Z)exf.) 
Juruboba (Solanum jianiculatum. Z.) 
Anabi (Potalia resinifera. Marl.) 
Uixi (MjTistica platyspernia. Mart.) 
Canjerana (Trichilia eanjerana. Mart.) 
J acareuba (Calojjhyllum Brasiliense. 
Mart . ) 
Coajinguba (Ficus anthelmintiea. Rich.) 
Muiratinga (?) 
Biquiba (Myristica ofiicinalis. Mart. ) 
Assacii (Hura Brasiliensis. W.) 
Cupuassu-rana (Pharmacosyee doHaria. 
Mart.) 
Sucuuba (Plumeria jihagendenica. Mari.) 
Cajii (Auacardium oceidentale. Z.) 
