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The courbaril, yielding a fine-grained, heavy, chocolate-colored timber; the balata, giving a wood even heavier, denser, and darker; the acajou, producing a rich red wood, with a strong scent of cedar; the bois-de-fer; the bois d'Inde; the superb acomat,--all used to flourish by tens of thousands upon these volcanic slopes, whose productiveness is eighteen times greater than that of the richest European soil.— Two Years in the French West Indies
This painting is covered with a varnish of algarobo, which is the transparent resin of the Hymenaea courbaril.— Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2
(* Thus, at five or six inches depth, between the roots of the Hymenea courbaril, masses of the resin anime (erroneously called copal) are discovered, and are sometimes mistaken for amber in inland places.— Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2
The trunks of the trees are everywhere concealed under a thick carpet of verdure; and if we carefully transplanted the orchideae, the pipers, and the pothoses, nourished by a single courbaril, or American fig-tree, * (* Ficus nymphaeifolia.) we should cover a vast extent of ground.— Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1
There was the well-known "seringa," or India-rubber tree; the great courbaril, the "dragon's-blood" tree, not that celebrated tree of the East (_Draccena_), but one of a different genus (_Crotori_), from whose white bark flows a red blood-like juice They saw, also, a species of cinnamon-tree (_Laurus cinnamonoides_), though not the cinnamon of commerce; the large tree that bears the Brazilian nutmeg (the Puxiri); and that one, also, a large forest tree, that bears the nuts known as "Tonka beans," and which are used in the flavouring of snuff But of all the trees which our travellers saw on that day, none made such an impression upon them as the "juvia," or Brazil-nut tree (_Bertholletia excelsa_).— The Forest Exiles The Perils of a Peruvian Family in the Wilds of the Amazon
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