Description

Brocklehurst has sent to RBG Kew some seeds and the pod from which they came. The seeds, from the River Beni, Bolivia, were gathered by a client wishing to know if they could be used for the purpose of Millinery 'trimmings' and such like. Brocklehurst asks what the seeds are, but admits they have no further information about the tree, not even the local name. A note in another hand lists the name Cybistax antisyphilitica, or Yangua tinctoria, and provides information about a dye used by the natives of the 'Maynensian' Andes of Peru, that can be obtained from the leaves of the tree. Annotated. Page 1 of 1.