Specimens of Trinidad Woods.
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TRINIDAD
Lies to the east of Venezuela. Ceded to Great Britain in 1802. The area of the island is 1,754^ square miles. Revenue about ^'264,000 a year, and value of exports, in 1871, £ L49^)8 1 1. The population amounts to 109,638.
The principal articles of export are Sugar, Rum, Molasses, Cacao, Coffee, and Pitch. The number of Sugar Estates is 150, and the number of Coffee and Cacao Estates about 800.
77,452 acres of land are under cultivation. Cotton, Timber of many kinds, and the choicest West Indian Fruits are also produced.
Exhibited .—Collection of Native Woods, Pitch, Asphalte, Fibres, • and Cacao. Collected and forwarded on behalf of the Colony by Mr. S. Devenish.
List of Specimens of Trinidad Woods.
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COMMON NAMES.
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_ | Acacia.
Acacie.
Aroma.
2
Acoma or mastic.
Acoma. 1 Acoma.
3 Allspice or pimento.
Bois d’Inde. 1
Pimientillo.
4 i
Angelin.
Angelin.
Lombricero.
5 1
Balataorbullet-tree. :
Balata.
Pur go.
6
7
8
Balsam capivi.
Copahu.
Bois cotelette.
Palo de aceite.
Bois pois blanc.
C. de Burro.
9
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Bois gris.
Case.
10
Bloodwood. 1
Bois sang.
Lacre.
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| Bread fruit.
Arbre a pain.
Palo de Pano.
12
Carapo.
Carapo.
Carapo.
13
Calabash.
Calebassier.
Totumo.
13a
14
Wild calabash.
Calebassier sauvage.
Totumo del monte.
Caracas-tree/
Zaman.
Zaman.
15
; Cedar.
Cedre.
Cedro.
16
; Coconut.
Cocotier.
Coco.
17
j Cyp.
Cyp.
Pardillo.
18
| Fustic.
Bois d’Orange.
Palo Naranjo.
19
1 Galba.
Galba.
Palo Maria.
20
! Gasparillo.
Gasparil.
Gasparillo.
21
i Genipa.
Genipa.
Caruto.
22
| Gommier.
Gommier.
Carano.
23
I Governor’s plum.
Prunier-Gouverneur.
SCIENTIFIC NAMES.
Acacia Farnesiana.
Pimenta vulgaris..
Andira inermis.
Acliras Balata.
Copaifera officinalis. Citharexylon quadrangulare. Swartzia pinnata.
Licania incana.
Vismia Cayennensis. Artocarpus incisa.
Carapa Guianensis. Crescentia Cujete. Crescentia latifolia. Calliandra Zaman.
Cedrela odorata.
Cocos nucifera.
Cordia gerascanthus. Maclura Xanthoxylon. Calophyllum Calaba. Esenbeckia.
Gcnipa.
Bursera gummifera.
I Flacourtia Ramontchi.