REcorRD: BOXWOODS OF COMMERCE 3038 
The ‘“‘baitoa’’ logs from Santo Domingo are from 8 to 20 
inches in diameter and 10 or 12 feet in length. They are irregular, 
and may be more or less fluted. The more prominent irregu- 
larities are usually hewn off. A pile of this material resembles a 
lot of sugar maple logs. 
Boxwood logs are measured at the small end, usually outside 
the bark. Owing to the tendency of the West Indian boxwoods 
to discolor in a humid atmosphere it is necessary to store the logs 
in a dry shed. 
BARK CHARACTERS OF THE BOXWOODS 
The bark characters of the different woods are distinctive. In 
Buxus sempervirens the bark is extremely thin, usually not more 
than }; inch, is gray in color, and clings tightly to the wood. In 
B. Macowani it is rather thick, } to } inch, composed of an inner 
dark layer and an outer lighter corky layer in narrow longitudinal 
ridges suggesting white ash. 
In Gonioma Kamassi the bark is about } inch thick, shows two 
distinct layers the outer of which is yellow on cross-section but 
grayish on the surface, irregularly fissured and somewhat flaky. 
Aspidosperma Vargasii has a bark about { inch thick, with a 
thick deep-yellow inner layer and a thin outer layer composed of 
laminations alternating light and dark. There are no concentric 
lines in the inner bark and the phloem rays are scarcely distinct 
with a lens. . The outer surface shows large splotches of gray, has 
short horizontal fissures and very irregular shallow vertical ones. 
In Casearia praecox the bark is from 2 to 3; inch thick, indis- 
tinctly two-layered, the outer being thin, smoothish, brown or 
mottled, and with fine vertical wrinkles in the smaller sizes and 
flaking off irregularly to a light gray without furrows in the larger. 
Inner bark has distinct wedge-shaped rays and concentric zones, 
and, when fresh, exudes a resin which stains the edge of the wood. 
In Phyllostylon brasiliensis the bark is from }; to 7 inch thick, 
without distinct layers. The outer surface in young specimens is 
greenish-gray, somewhat wrinkled, and with prominent lenticels 
which may be elongated horizontally; in large logs the color is 
ashy gray, smoothish-granular or with irregular corky ridges. 
The inner bark shows numerous fine wavy rays and very fine 
