ARARIBA

(Lat.), n. £. A3r-a5r-e/ba3, From the Brazilian name. 1. A name given by Marc graff to a whitish wood supposed to be derived from a species of Pterocarpus (according to others, from the Acacia). 2. genus of Brazilian trees. 3. Araroba. [B, 121.]— A. bark. Lat., cortex araribæ. A variety of spurious cinchona bark said to be derived from A. rubra. It closely resembles the bark called cinchona rosa, and contains aribine. [B,23.]—A. rosa. A tree the wood of which, according to Guibourt, is identical with Diababul wood or that of Acacia arabica, [B, 121.|—A. rubra [Martius]. A tree of eastern Brazil, the red bark of which is used by the Indians in dyeing. |B, 121.]—Cortex araribæ. See A. bark.