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exported in large quantities to Europe for dyeing is to day almost 
abandoned for this purpose; the wood is used for constructional 
work, railway sleepers, etc.; the density is recorded as 1: 
there is a sample of Brazil wood chips in the Kew Museum, 
presented by J. Glover, dated 1849. ‘This would be such as came 
into commerce at that time. 
oval, entire, glabrous, bright green. Flowers of a pale or whitish 
green. 
1, (1783) p. 462. Caesalpinia polyphylla aculeis horrida, 
Plumier, Gen. (1793) p. 28, t. 9 and Burmann, Pl. Americanum 
- . . Carolus Plumerius . . . etc.; i. (1755) t. 68 
Brasiletto of the Antilles. 
Lamarck (l.c.) states that this is called Brésillet in the 
Antilles because the heartwood is red like that of Brazil wood. 
A medium sized tree or shrub, 8-9 ft. in height; stems 2-3 in. 
in diameter; branches slender, armed with small black prickles at 
the base of the leaves. Inflorescence a terminal raceme; flowers 
white. Leaves (pinnae) 4-jugal; leaflets of firm texture, obovate- 
mucronate, light green, somewhat resembling those of Haema- 
torylon. Pod thin, oblique acuminate, or pointed like a scimitar 
about 3 in. long, 5-7 or more seeded. seudosantalum croceum, 
(1754), t. 51; Caesalpinia brasiliensis, Plenck, Ic. (1791) t. 324; 
Caesalpinia crista, Griseb. Fl. Br. W. Indies (1864) p. 205. 
Bahamas (N. L. Britton & C. F. Millspaugh, No. 2883, 
1905; John & Alice Northrop, Bahama Pl. No. 426 (coll. 1890) 
1899, Herb. Kew). 
About 200 years ago this wood was a considerable article of 
commerce in the Bahama Islands; but in Catesby’s day the 
ePpey, Was much exhausted, great quantities of it being sent 
from the islands and also from other parts of the West Indies to 
England for dyeing. 
It is probable that this and C. crista represent the ‘little 
Brazil wood’? of Pomet*, the least esteemed of his five kinds, a8 
scarcely any large trees were left in the British plantations. It 
1s In this work called Caesalpinia vesicaria, and said not to attain 
prickles; the flowers white growing in a pyramidal spike at the 
end of a long slender elk would seem fit this species as it 
* A Compleat Hist. of Drugs (1725) j 
. mo 6. 
t Vegetable Substances: Materials ot Manufacture, p. 361. 
