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not attracted the attention of people in the interior as being one worth 
the trouble of obtaining for the purpose of exportation. I have endea- 
voured to induce persons living in the woods near the small seaport 
town of Canavierias, where it is said resinous trees abound, to occupy 
themselves with the production, and I shortly expect to receive samples 
of lesin from various trees, which I shall send to London to be valued, 
and if they are approved of, and the price offered will leave a profit to 
the producer, I have not the slightest doubt that a considerable quantity 
could and would be exported in the course of next year. 
The circumstance that the woods of this country, such as rosewood 
and Brazil wood, have depreciated so much in value of late in Europe, 
that the prices offered here do not even pay for the labour of cutting 
and transport to this market, has made persons hitherto employed in 
the wood trade both anxious and eager to devote their attention to the 
production of any article that would be remunerative, and as the 
labourers employed in the wood trade are principally Indians, born and 
brought up in the forests, no persons could be better suited for the em- 
ployment of collecting resin. 
List of Brazilian Trees which yield Resin. 
Icica heptaphylla . Almecegueira. 
„ Icicariba 
„ guianensis 
„ altissima . 
Hymenasa Courbaril, L. . 
„ stilbocarpa, Hayne 
„ Martiana „ 
„ Olfersiana „ 
„ stigonocarpa „ 
„ Sellowiana „ 
Trachylobium Maitianum, Hayne. 
N.B. — The last seven species yield copal or anime. 
Arauearia Brasiliana, Lamb. . . . Cari-y, Cari-iiva. Pinheiro. 
N.B. — The turpentine is used the same as the European. 
Bursera leptophleos, Marl. . . . Trubarana. Bahia. 
N.B. — Greenish yellow resin, with the same smell as turpentine. 
Astronium coneinnum, Scliott. Guaraba. 
Schinus antarthritica, Mart. Aroeira. 
„ Molleoides. Velloso. 
„ terebenthifolius. 
„ rhoifolius, Mart. 
„ munorivilatus 1 Mart. 
Para. — Mr. Acting-Consul Blandy reports, there is but a small 
quantity of resin gathered in these Provinces, never amounting to over 
300 arobas, or 9,600 lbs. This amount is seldom reached, being princi- 
pally picked up beneath the trees bearing this gum. There are three 
K2 
Ubira-sigua. 
Icicariba. 
Tciy. 
Jetahy, Jataky. 
Jetai, Jetai-iiva. 
Tatoba, Tetaiba. 
Abati-timbaty. 
