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widely distributed in tropical regions of both hemispheres. 
Urena sinuata, L., a similar plant, as widely pene aie eg and 
passin g at times under the same native the name 
‘“Rama’’ as saa ie i lunariifolvus is fe applied to 
this plant in Nupe, N 
e above ten Paes rae all be classed as ‘‘ Jute’’ in the 
Sad, though but two genera (Triumfetta & Honckenya) belong 
to the same Order (Tilvaceae), the pana belonging to Jfal- 
vaceae, and they are all recommende efficient substitutes 
for the = or Bengal Jute (Corchorus capa), All these 
are bast fibres. Some particulars of them se acon to 
literature, are given in A.B. Add. Series ix. pa 
Many other fibres, too numerous to oe ‘phitable for 
papermaking, textile purposes and cordage, either in competi- 
tion with or as substitutes for the established commercial kinds 
are also under consideration officially (see Colonial Report, Mise. 
No. 58, 1909, and K.B., Additional Series li., “* Vegetable 
tre ) and under experimental cultivation in the various 
Colon 
TIMBERS. 
Detailed returns of quantities and values of different kinds of 
timber imported into the United Kingdom cannot be obtained 
except in a few instances for in Trade Returns the various woods 
are grouped as Furniture Woods, Building Woods, 
Douglas Fir, Oregon Pine (Pseudotsuga te Carr.). 
Britisu.—British Columbia, Vancouver. Forrran.—United 
States of America (Oregon, Washington). 
One of the most important woods of Western North America. 
Used for many purposes, such as light and heavy building work, 
railway sleepers, paving blocks, fencing, telegraph and telephone 
poles, furniture, &ce. Although inferior to the best Pitch Pine 
it is recognised as one of the best substitutes for that wood, and 
it is used for the same work as European Redwood or Yellow ‘Deal 
(Pinus sylvestris, L.). Its most unsatisfactory point appears to 
that it does not absorb creosote so well as pine. The tree grows 
well in the British Isles, and is likely to prove one of the most 
valuable exotics for British forests. References to the species 
ap :— 
1. “ The Growth and gee ae of enaise Fir in the Pacific 
North- -West, ”” Cireular No. 175, U.S. Dept. of Agriculture. 
: ‘ Properties and Uses of Douglas Fir,’’? Forest Service 
Bulletin No. 88, U.S. Dept. of Agriculture. 
See also ‘ Canadian Woods for Structural Timbers,’’ Forestry 
Branch Bulletin, No. 59, Ottawa, 1917 
. ee Pine, Baltic Redwood, Yellow Deal (Pinus sylvestris, 
Britisn.—British Isles. Foreran.—Russia, Norway, Sweden, 
Germany. 
The commonest and most generally useful of European timbers. 
Used for all kinds of building purposes, paving none, scaffold 
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