This belongs to the cinchona family, and produces the fruit called genipap or marmalade box. From Wordnik.com. [Catalogue of Economic Plants in the Collection of the U. S. Department of Agriculture] Reference
The marks on their bodies were of a different, dark juice, genipap, which was used to create the most intricate of geometrical designs; a form of decoration that tended to distract the eye from the otherwise total nakedness of the Xara females. From Wordnik.com. [River Of Desire]
Because I was not brought up with my people, I am not very fast or very clever at the things a Xara woman must do - the weaving of baskets, the working with bark, the grating of manioc, the drawing of designs with genipap juice - ". From Wordnik.com. [River Of Desire]
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