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Sections of Mauritian Woods. — Continued.
Names Botanical and Local.
53 Hsematoxylon Carnpe-
chianum (Campeche Logwood).
54 Imbricaria coriacea
(Pomme Jacquot).
55 Camphora officinarum
(Camphor).
56 Morinda citrifolia (Mu-
rier de Java).
57 Flacourtia Ramontchi
(Prunier de Madagascar).
58 Nephelum Longan
(Longan).
59 Psidium Indicum (Go-
yavier de Chine).
60 Accacia Lebbeck (Bois Noir).
61 Hymsena verucosa (Co- palier).
62 Tetranthera laurifolia
(B. d’Oiseaux).
63 Artocarpus integrifolia
(Jacquier).
Remarks on uses, &c.
53 Not often found large enough for
building purposes, used for ornament and dyeing. This plant makes excellent hedges.
54 Wood good, but not common, and
therefore little used.
55 Grows to a large size. Wood
used for boxes for preserving articles against insects.
56 A yellow dye is prepared from
the bark of the roots of this tree by the Chinese.
57 Mostly small trees, with a hard
wood, which is serviceable for small articles of furniture.
58 Vide “Litclh,” No. 49.
59 Vide 52, the wood of which this very much resembles in quality, &c., but this is a much larger growing tree.
60 Heart wood used for naves and
felloes of wheels ; makes good charcoal, and formerly the French used to collect it largely and employ it as charcoal in gunpowder-making.
61 Timber apparently good, strong,
hard, but coarse grained. The tree yields gum copal; and it is very common in Madagascar, but exists in a very few places in a cultivated state, in Mauritius.
62 Used for shafts, tool handles, &c.
63 Wood useful for naves of carriage
wheels, also for furniture. Yellow, beautifully coloured when fully matured.