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Wood : " This is a well known wood, it cuts freely, is not hard, very 

 durable, and is perhaps more extensively used for general building 

 purposes, away from the coast, than any other kind of indigenous 

 wood. A great many shingles are made of ce lar. In the interior it 

 otow8 to 4 and even 6 feet in diameter and 70 to SO feet high." 

 (Harrison). 



Bark : gum, resembling gum arabic, obtained by making incisions. 



" Generally over the island, especially at altitudes varying from 1,000 

 to 4,000 feet. Only slightly gregarious. Chiefly dotted over open 

 pastures and along watercourses. Grows up to a large size ; six feet 

 in diameter in the open, rarely over half that diameter at high eleva- 

 tions, where, in sheltered narrow vales, it has tall straight stems. It 

 is a light handsome wood, in most general request for furniture, roofing 

 shingles, interior of houses, cigar boxes and ornamental work. Ex- 

 ported to Europe and else where. " (Hoopev ) 



CEIBA, See Eriodendron Anfractuosum. 



CELANDINE. See Bocconia frutescens. 



CERASEE. See Momordka Balsamina. 

 CHEW STICK. See Gouania domingensis. 



CHERIMOYA. See Anona citerimolia. 



CHINA GRASS. See Bckhmeria nivea. 



CHOCHO. See Sechium edule. 



CHOCOLATE TREE. See Theorroma cacao. 



CHRYSOBALANUS ICACO. Linn. 



Cocoa Plum. 



Native of W. Indies, Bahamas, and Tropical America and Africa. 



A shrubby tree, 12 feet high ; leaves roundish : flowers white; fruit, 

 brownish-purple, size of a plum. (Rosacea.) 



Roots and Leaves : " An astringent bath, recommended in leucor- 

 7-hcoa and blennorhcea, is prepared from the leaves and roots." 



Fruit " considered astringent and to be useful in bowel complaints. 



Prepared with sugar, it forms a favourite conserve with the Spanish 

 colonists, and large quantities are annually exported from Cuba. 



The kernels yield a fixed oil, and an emulsion made with them, is 

 said to be useful in dysentery." (Macfadyen.) 



CHRYSOPHYLLUM CAINITO, Linn. 

 Star Apple. 

 Native of W. Indies and tropical America. A tree with leaves of a 

 o-olden hue beneath ; flowers purplish white ; fruit size of an apple 

 green or purple. (Sapotaceee.) 



Fruit edible. Unripe the juice with orange juice astringent. 



