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NOTES OF A BOTANIST<br />

MIRA PIXUNA. Swartzia grandijiora (Cresalpiniae). Black wood.<br />

MIRITI. Palms of the genus Mauritia.<br />

MONKEY-PODS. Pithecolobium (Mimosere).<br />

MOSQUITO (Span.).<br />

Sand-flies, etc.<br />

MUCUIN. A small red tick.<br />

MUCUJA. Acrocomia lasiospatha. Palm with eatable fruit.<br />

MULATTO TREE. Enkylista Spniceana (Cinchonacere).<br />

MULONGO. Hancornia laxa (Apocynaceae). Cork wood.<br />

MUMBACA. Astrocaryiim miunbaca. Palm ; fruit eatable.<br />

MURIKITICA. A climber. Stem gives drinkable water.<br />

MURIXI. Byrsonima Poppigiana (Malpighiaceos). Bark for tanning.<br />

MURUMURU. Astrocaryuni imtnii/iurii. Palm ; very spiny. Cattle eat<br />

the fruit.<br />

MURURE. Floating plants.<br />

MUTUCA. Small biting flies.<br />

NAMAU. Carica Papaya (Papayaceee). <strong>The</strong> Papaw ;<br />

NIOPO (Ven.). Piptadenia Niopo.<br />

fruit eatable.<br />

OANANI. Moronoboea sp. (Clusiacea;). Black pitch.<br />

sp. Powder used in asthma; root contains half its bulk of<br />

OCUMO. . Arum<br />

fine starch.<br />

PAACUA-RAXA. Urania sp. An edible root.<br />

PAc6vA. Musa sapienti(E (Musacese). Plantain fruit.<br />

PACOVA-SOROROCA. Alpinia Paco-seroca (Jacq. ). Gives a purple dye, not<br />

permanent.<br />

PAJA MANIBA. Cassia occidentalis. Root bitter ; good in fevers.<br />

PAJUARU. Mandiocca beer, also called "caxiri."<br />

PAO D' ARCO. Tecoma sp. Bows and cigar-holders made of this wood.<br />

PAO DE LACRE. Vismia giiianensis (Hypericacere). Yields sealing-wax.<br />

PAO MULATTO. Enkylista Spniceana (Cinchonacese).<br />

PAPAW. Carica Papaya (Papayacere). A fruit.<br />

PARANA-MIRI. Side channels of the Amazon, small rivers.<br />

1' M:ATURI. Lauracece. Hard wood, on Upper Orinoco.<br />

PARICA (L.G. ). Piptadenia Niopo (Mimosea.-). Seeds make snuff.<br />

of leaf-stems used to make<br />

]' \i\\v.\. OLnocarpns fiatawa (Palm). Spines<br />

arrows for blowing-canes.<br />

PAXK'DA. Iriartea cxorhiza (Palmacese).<br />

I'AXit'KA-i. Iriartea setigera (Palm). Stem used for blowing-canes.<br />

I'IASSAHA. Leopolilinia piassaba (Palmacece).<br />

PIHIGUA.<br />

PINDOBA.<br />

Eatable grub.<br />

Attalea compta (Palmacene).<br />

PlQUlA. Caryocar sp. (Rhizobolacese). Fruit with kernels like almonds.<br />

PIKAXHA-SIPO. A climber yielding drinkable water.<br />

PIRARUCU. Sudis gigas. A large fish. When salted, a chief food on the<br />

Amazon.<br />

PlRI-MEMBECKA. Paspaluin pyrainidale (GraminaceK).<br />

PlTOMHA. Sapindits ccrasiinis (Sapindacece). Edible fruit.<br />

PIUM (L.G.). Small biting flies.<br />

IVriMiA. (iu/'/i, ///i,[ speciosa (Palmacere). Peach palm.<br />

PURU-PURU (L.G.). A leprous skin disease.<br />

PUSKU-POROTO. A shrub with edible fruit (Papilionacere) cultivated in<br />

Tarapoto district.'

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