They were recognizable by their black beards and their gloomy and sullen air, and were walking slowly on the horizontal branches of a genipa.    From Wordnik.com.  [Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2] Reference

Here were the gigantic mammee-tree, and the genipa, with large and shining leaves, raising their branches vertically towards the sky; while others, extending their boughs horizontally, formed a thick canopy of verdure over the entrance.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Young Llanero A Story of War and Wild Life in Venezuela] Reference