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bles that of jalap. It yields a gum, or resin, like 
scammony, and purges with great violence. 
Saldits, or Manouquibonga, is a fine woody plant 
like a vine, producing bunches of large red flowers 
like feathers: the seed is emetic, and the. root of the 
same plant has an opposite effect. 
Pendre, is a tree that shoots leaves higher than an 
aloe, and bears ten or twelve white flowers of an 
excellent odour; the women make an infusion of it 
with oil of menachil or sesame. 
Apocapouc, (Euphorbia TirucallQ is a tree whose 
leaves and flowers are like those of spurge laurel; 
the fruit is of the size of an almond or nut, and is a 
strong poison. Nevertheless an oil is drawn from 
the kernel that is used in anointing the hair. 
The Haram is the loftiest and largest tree in the 
province of Voolou Voolou. Its wood is white, but 
has a red tinge near the heart. When full grown, it 
sheds its bark every year. The trunk is even and 
without boughs, till near the top, which is crowned 
with a hugh tuft of leaves. On incision it exudes, 
in great abundance, a white aromatic resin. The 
women make a paste of this, with which they anoint 
their faces, to preserve the freshness of the skin. If 
burnt, it exhales an aromatic perfume, like in¬ 
cense. The fruit is a nut, of which the shell alone is 
aromatic. 
Tevartna.—This tree exhibits a very curious con¬ 
formation; it grows in a pyramidal shape, the 
branches representing seven distinct stories, being 
