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paste the wood is employed by the Brahmans for their distinguishing 

 caste marks. 



The bastard sandalwood of India is Erythroxylon monogynum Roxb. 

 It is very fragrant and is used as a substitute for sandalwood. The 

 yellow sanders (Ximenia americana L.), of tropical America, the Pacific 

 Islands, Malaya. Australia, Asia and Africa, has a fragrant yellow wood 

 which is used as a substitute for sandalwood. 



Holtzapffel 105; Wiesner 2: 908-911; 937-940. Boulger 20(>-268 ; Stone 191. 



SATINWOOD. 



This is the product of Chloroxylon swietenia DC. (See p. 473.) 

 It is found in India and Ceylon, where it has been rather common. 

 Certain species of Fagara, Zanthoxylum, etc. are also known to produce 

 satinwood in tropical America and Australia. Certain Philippine 

 Rutacea have wood which would do very well as a satinwood, but they 

 are usually of comparatively small size and rather scattered in occurrence. 

 The name refers to the beautifully smooth and satiny luster which the 

 wood shows when finished. This wood was probably introduced into 

 Europe before mahogany. It was in request for rich furniture about 

 the end of the eighteenth century, the fashion then being to ornament 

 panels of it with painted medallions and floral scrolls and borders. Now 

 it is used for inlaying or borders and small veneers and most largely in 

 covering the backs of hair and clothes brushes and in making small 

 articles of turnery, all kinds of furniture, railway carriages, writing and 

 stationery fitments and toilet requisites. 



Maba buxifolia Pers. is said to furnish a kind of satinwood, but I 

 have never seen it so used. 



There is frequently a curled grain which adds to the beauty. 



Holtzapffel 105; Stevenson 207; Stone 29-31; Wiesner 2: 953; Boulger 281. 



ZEBBAWOOD. 



This is a name given to varieties of wood used as veneers, and striped 

 so as to suggest a zebra's skin. The name has been used for some of the 

 bright-streaked species of Diospyros and also for some woods which occur 

 in small size and which have a conspicuously variegated appearance with 

 bright colors. Such woods seem to be of little importance except for 

 canes and other small articles. 



One of the trees said to produce zebrawood in South America is 

 Guettarda speciom L. This same tree is not uncommon along the sea- 

 coast in this part of the world, but it seems usually to be of rather small 

 size and but little used. 



Another Philippine wood to which this name would seem to apply is 

 Taxotrophis ilicifolia Aid. This wood is brilliantly streaked and makes 

 most striking canes. 



Holtzapffel 110; Boulger 302. 



