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wood’ (Baphia nitida)* from West Africa. Thomsont states 
that “‘within the last ten years Brazil wood has been nearly 
hich 
£14 per ton, with a duty of 1s. per ton, for brazil wood from £60 
to £80 per ton, exclusive of the duty of £2 per ton, and for 
camwood £16 to £18 per ton, inclusive of a duty of 5s. a ton. 
At this period (1834), of sappan wood, it was stated that “very 
little is now imported’; of brazil wood, the imports ‘i 
siderable,” and of camwood “there were imported 475 tons in 
1828 and 119 tons in 1829." The exports of brazil wood from 
“hie in 1878 were 821 kilos, almost entirely to the United 
tates. § 
At the present time ‘‘camwood”’ is the only one of the three 
above-mentioned products that is quoted on the markets, a recent 
ments in London show that the product is scarcely known. 
‘There are unfortunately no herbarium specimens showing any 
brazi 
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brazil-wood’”’ of early times (before 1500), usually 
known at the present day as ‘* sappan-wood ; also known as 
‘bakam-wood,” ‘‘ red-wood,”. ete. Bresillet des Indes of 
Lamarck, Encyl. Method. i. (1783) 
P moe and Malay Archipelago. 
and to some extent may still be used; but its nae 1) a ore 
Common in the countries of production. It is probably the 
oldest dye-wood known, having been in use for some 700 years. 
In addition to the references by Marco Polo and Garcia d’ Orta, 
: * Particulars of this dye-woud tree are given in Kew Bull. Add. Series 
Ix. 2 (1911), pp. 246-247.” See also Kew Bull. 1906, pp. 37 3-07 ape 
} Chemistry of Organic Bodies— Vegetables (London, 1838), p. 410. 
< McCulloch, Dict. Commerce (London, 1834). 
Pon’s Encycl. (1881), p. 856. Pe 
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