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Braziletto of Jamaica (Sloane, Browne, Macfadyen), 
Jamaica (Harris, Nos. 6438, 5439 (1894) Herb. Kew; Mac- 
fadyen (1838) Herb. Kew). Cuba (Combs, No. 571 (1895) Herb. 
Kew). 
Commelin* describes a red-dye wood which he alls 
“Corallinum Lignum’’ (Lrythrozylum americanum) and the 
figure is a cultivated plant three years old and 3 ft. high, 
originally from the American island of Aruba. From this same 
island there is in the Kew Herbarium specimens of a pod, leaves 
and flower sent by Dr. Suringar of Leiden in 1884, which has 
been described by Prof. Urban as Peltophorum Suringari.t 
_ According to Browne} this tree grows in every part of the 
island where the soil is dry and rocky. The wood rarely 
exceeds 8-10 in. in diameter; it is elastic, tough and durable, of a 
fine orange colour. In his day it was seldom cut for the dyer’s 
use in Jamaica, and the cultivated ‘“‘ Logwood ” (Haematoxylon 
campechianum) has long since superseded it from this island. 
Macfadyen§ states ‘‘I am not aware that it is at present ever 
cut down for exportation as a dye-wood ;”’ though it is probably 
this wood that is meant by Holtzapfiel|| where he states that 
** Braziletto is quite unlike the Brazil wood; its colour is ruddy 
orange, sometimes with streaks; it is imported from Jamaica in 
sawn logs from 2-6 ft. long and 2-8 in. in diameter with the 
bark (which is of the ordinary thickness) left on them and also 
from New Providence in small cleaned sticks.’? There are in 
Museum at Kew two specimens of the wood of the Jamaica 
Braziletto that would bear out these views—one of them from 
found in most parts of the island; wood hard and durable, of a 
bright red colour; used for railway sleepers, wheel-spokes, 
ornamental cabinet work and for general purposes. 
: een Brasiletto, Karst., Fl. Colombia, ii. (1862-69) 
oe mh, Uy, 
p. 344; Harms in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. xxix. pe Wey Be oer, 
pechianum, H. B. & K. Nov. Gen. vi. (1823) p. 256 (in part); 
* Hort. Med. Amstel. i. (1697), t. 104, 7.203. 
+ Urban, Symb. Ant. Fl. Tad. Occ 4 oa (1908). 
n p- 227. 
§ Fl. Jamaica (1837), p. 328. 
|| Descr. Cat. Woods.(London, 1852), p. 77. 
| Timbers of Jamaica, West Indian Bull. ix. No. 4, 1909, p. 301. 
