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n. - West Indian locust tree having pinnate leaves and panicles of large white or purplish flowers.

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  • This painting is covered with a varnish of algarobo, which is the transparent resin of the Hymenaea courbaril.
  • India-rubber tree; the great courbaril, the "dragon's-blood" tree, not that celebrated tree of the East but one of a different genus from whose white bark flows a red...
  • The flower at Caripe, has sometimes five, sometimes six stamens.) with large and shining leaves, raise their branches vertically towards the sky; whilst those of the...
  • The diversity of the trees and plant life in general, is enormous, being dominant large trees such as Caryniana pyriformis, Caryocar glabrum, Caryocar amygdaliferum, Miroxylon...
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