cerrados

Updated: July 9, 2025

The cerrados, as they are called, or scrub consisting chiefly of acacias and leguminosae reach to the height of ten or twenty feet. Numerous other shrubs and smaller plants, many of which are medicinal, cover the ground, and send forth a delicious perfume into the pure air.

William Henry Giles Kingston - The Western World: Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North: and South America