. The Andes and the Amazon :|bor across the continent of South America. g candles, and a great article of export fromCeara. But it does not fairly belong to the Amazonianvalley. Another Wax Palm {Geroxylon andicola), thePalma de Ramos of the Ecuadorians, grows at Canelos. The Cetico (a Cecropia, a tree fifty feet high, with whitebark and digitate foliage, very common on the Maranon),is also called a Wax-tree; but the wax is of animal ori-gin, stored away in the hollow trunk. The wax is of twokinds, white and reddish; the former, aiunt, is made bybees, the other by ants. The berries of Lacre-tr
. The Andes and the Amazon :|bor across the continent of South America. g candles, and a great article of export fromCeara. But it does not fairly belong to the Amazonianvalley. Another Wax Palm {Geroxylon andicola), thePalma de Ramos of the Ecuadorians, grows at Canelos. The Cetico (a Cecropia, a tree fifty feet high, with whitebark and digitate foliage, very common on the Maranon),is also called a Wax-tree; but the wax is of animal ori-gin, stored away in the hollow trunk. The wax is of twokinds, white and reddish; the former, aiunt, is made bybees, the other by ants. The berries of Lacre-trees on the Lower Amazons exudeglobules of wax resembling gamboge. The Rubber-Tkee and Trade. 529 India-rubber—called on the River Borracha (fromthe bottle form in which it is exported), Seringa (be-cause it was formerly made by the natives into syringesfor injections, a popular treatment of diseases), Gomma-elastica, Jebe,and Caucho—is the product of sever-al Amazonian trees, but especially of Syphonia cahucha^known by the collectors as the Seringueira or Chirin-. Branch of the ludia-rubber-tree. ga. This tree, having the bark and foliage of the Euro-pean ash, and a trunk with the maximum diameter of fourfeet, and branchless for a hundred feet, grows on the wildlowlands {ygwpos) of all the tributaries, but is tapped main-ly in the regions of the Madeira, Xingii, Puriis, Jurua,and Tapajos. The rubber is collected in the dry season(between July and January), one man collecting on the * This name, and S. elastica and Hevea Brasiliensis, may possibly ex-press distinct species. 2L 530 The Andes and the Amazons. average eight pounds a day, worth on the Amazons (whenfine) $14 an arroba. The sap has at first the consistencyof cream, but soon thickens, and is further hardened andblackened by exposing it to the smoke of burning palm-nuts, usually the Urucuri. Coagulation is necessary alsoto prevent the separation of the resinous parts. Europeansare now using alum or ammonia and press
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