This painting is covered with a varnish of algarobo, which is the transparent resin of the Hymenaea courbaril.    From Wordnik.com.  [Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2] Reference

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 blood-like juice.    From Wordnik.com.  [Popular Adventure Tales] Reference

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 courbaril and the erythrina form, as they extend, a thick canopy of verdure.    From Wordnik.com.  [Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1] Reference

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 balsamum, Ochroma lagopus, Anacardium excelsum, Hymenea courbaril, Schyzolobium parahybum, Ceiba pentandra, Cedrela odorata, Tabebuia rosea, Cordia gerascanthus and many more.    From Wordnik.com.  [Magdalena-Urabá moist forests] Reference

We also find myrtle laurelcherry, "membrillo" or "almendrito" (Prunus myrtifolia), "mara" or "baría" (Calophyllum brasiliense), "cocuyo" (Hirtella triandra), American muskwood or "cabirma" (Guarea guidonia), "palo de yagua" (Casearia arborea), locust (Hymenea courbaril), "balatá" (Manilkara domingensis) and sierra or "manacla" palm (Prestoea montana).    From Wordnik.com.  [Hispaniolan moist forests] Reference

The courbaril, yielding a fine-grained, heavy, chocolate-colored timber; the balata, giving a wood even heavier, denser, and darker; the acajou, producing a rich red wood, with a strong scent of cedar; the bois-de-fer; the bois d'Inde; the superb acomat, -- all used to flourish by tens of thousands upon these volcanic slopes, whose productiveness is eighteen times greater than that of the richest European soil.    From Wordnik.com.  [Two Years in the French West Indies] Reference

The secretions from various vegetable glands hardened in the air produce gums, resins, and various kinds of saccharine, saponaceous, and wax-like substances, as the gum of cherry or plumb-trees, gum tragacanth from the astragalus tragacantha, camphor from the laurus camphora, elemi from amyris elemifera, aneme from hymenoea courbaril, turpentine from pistacia terebinthus, balsam of Mecca from the buds of amyris opobalsamum, branches of which are placed in the temples of the East on account of their fragrance, the wood is called xylobalsamum, and the fruit carpobalsamum; aloe from a plant of the same name; myrrh from a plant not yet described; the remarkably elastic resin is brought into.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Botanic Garden A Poem in Two Parts. Part 1: the Economy of Vegetation] Reference