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and shaped like the common white thorn leaf, of a palish green. 
We always chuse to cut the old black-rinded trees, for these 
have less sap, and require but little pains to chip or cut. The 
sap is white, and the heart red; the heart is used much for 
dyeing, therefore we chip off all the white sap till we come to 
the heart; and then it is fit to be transported to Europe. After 
it has been chip’d a little while, it turns black; and if it lies 
in the water it dyes it like ink, and sometimes has been used to 
write with. Some trees are five or six feet in circumference; 
these we can scarce cut into logs small enough for a man’s 
burden, without great labour, and therefore are forced to blow 
them up. It is a very ponderous sort of wood, and burns very 
well, making a clear strong fire, and very lasting. We always 
harden the steels of our fire-arms when they are faulty, in a log- 
wood fire, if we can get it, but otherways as I said before, with 
Burton-wood or the grape tree. The true logwood, I think, 
grows only in this country of Yucatan, and even there, but only 
in some places near the sea. The chief places for it are either 
here or at Cape Catoche, and on the south side of Yucatan in the 
ay of Honduras.”’ 
1s said to be one of the common ‘chaparral’? plants, forming 
dense impenetrable thickets. A specimen of the wood in the Kew 
Museum shows no colour. Comocladia dentata, Jacq.t (Ana- 
cardiaceae), ‘‘ bastard brazil,” native of Cuba, St. Domingo; 
wood dark red, said to dye like brazil wood: juice dyes the skin 
b ack. Comocladia tlicifolia, Sw.t “St. Domingo brasiletto, 
et ee eing, juice staining the skin black. 
T: richilia spondioides, Swartz$ (Meliaceac), ‘ bastard: brasil,’ 
Jamaica and Hispaniola; wood said to be used in dyeing. 
Caesalpinia bijuga, Swartz|| (referred to C. vesicaria, Linn., see 
below), 5 bastard icaragua wood,’’ brown, dyes red. Caesal- 
ta vesicaria, Linn.,f “ palo campeche,’’ Cuba yaa 
** Indian 
Savin Tree:?? Jarinica 
(Ramarek), native of Cuba, Campeachy, Yucatan, Jamaica, ete. 
Ervthrowylum ovatum, Cav.** (Lineae), “brésillette St. Bar- 
eat cl ag cc freee 
* Coulter, Conir. U.S Nat Herb. ii Sylv. 
oy +s : . li. No. J, 1891, p. 58; Sargent, Sy!V 
N. Amer. ii. p. 25; Pringle, Garden and Forest, ii. p. 398, who states that 
the wood dyes blue. ' 
! ae ee Suppl. Pharmacopeeia (London, 1857), p. 258. 
c. p. 241, 
r 
- p- 268, 
Urban, Symbol. Antilles 3; 
se ey ol. Antilles, ii. (1900-61), p. 288. 
