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AMAZONIAN VEGETATION 359<br />

great Amazonian forest -belt, wherein they now<br />

barely exist on the bits of campos that at wide<br />

intervals break the monotony of the woodland-<br />

although they probably at some antecedent period<br />

from north to south.<br />

ranged continuously<br />

In other cases, closely allied species occupy<br />

distinct areas. One of the finest fruits of Equatorial<br />

America, the Cocura (Pourouma of Aublet), is borne<br />

in large grape-like bunches on trees of the Bread-<br />

fruit tribe, having large, palmatifid, hoary leaves,<br />

quite like those of their near allies the Cecropias.<br />

Now the Cocura of the mid-region of the Rio<br />

Negro, of the Japura, and of the Upper Amazon<br />

or Solimoes is one species (Pourouma cecropi

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