. The Andes and the Amazon :|bor across the continent of South America. andintensely hard, tough, and dense. It is used for rollersand cogs in sugar-mills, for beams and planks in heavyengine-work, and for treenails in planking vessels. It oc-curs throughout the valley. MAgAEANDi^BA, or Cow - tree. — This wonderful tree,one of the largest of the forest monarchs, is the Mimusopselata, belonging, therefore, to the same order and genus asthe Moira-pirauga.* It stands from 180 to 200 feet highand 20 feet in circumference, crowned with a vast dome of * On page 288, the Ma9aranduba is confounded wit
. The Andes and the Amazon :|bor across the continent of South America. andintensely hard, tough, and dense. It is used for rollersand cogs in sugar-mills, for beams and planks in heavyengine-work, and for treenails in planking vessels. It oc-curs throughout the valley. MAgAEANDi^BA, or Cow - tree. — This wonderful tree,one of the largest of the forest monarchs, is the Mimusopselata, belonging, therefore, to the same order and genus asthe Moira-pirauga.* It stands from 180 to 200 feet highand 20 feet in circumference, crowned with a vast dome of * On page 288, the Ma9aranduba is confounded with the Palo de Vaca,which is an Artocarpad. The Cow-tree of Guiana is a Galactodendron. Ma9Aranduba oe Cow-tree. 501 foliage. It lias entire, alternate leaves, a deeply -scored,reddish, ragged bark (used for dying cloth), palatable fruitand milk, and a hard, fine-grained, heavy (sp, gr. ),reddish wood, very durable in water—more so than Itaiibaeven—and the toughest of all the Amazonian woods, yetsplitting easily. It is largely used for construction and for. Leaves, Frnit, aud Flower of Maparanduba. furniture, and would be admirable for ship-building. Theyoung trees have a dark-red centre, surrounded with awhite softer wood. It grows on dry lands along the wholelength of the Great River, from Para to the Upper Mara-non, also on the Rio Negro, and probably other affluents. LoiRo, or LouRO, one of the most useful woods in Brazil,and growing every where on the Amazons and Maranon. 502 The Andes and the Amazons. —It is the Cordia excelsa ov frondosa of science, of whichthere are fo-ur varieties: , L.^reto, L. batata, andL. hranco. It is a high tree, with a trunk over sixty feetlong and a foot and a half in diameter, alternate leatheryleaves and panicled flowers. The light-yellow variety isfragrant, and makes excellent lumber, being largely usedin flooring, making tables, doors, etc. The dark-colored,however, is harder, and best for boat - building and thelike. CuM
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