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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.