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Swietenia Mahagoni, L. ‘‘ Mahogany,” ‘‘Caoba.” Variable in quality. 
Bark used in tanning. Furniture and building. Largely exported. (Meliacee.) 
Other species not yet accurately determined are “ Santa Maria,” 
resembling mahogany, much used and exported, probably Calo- 
phyllum Calaba, Jacq. ; “ Yellow-wood,” “ Panjuil,” resembling 
box; “San Juan,” also yellow, extensively used in building ; 
“ Tron-wood,” ‘‘ Axemaster” or ‘ Quiebra Hacha,” not much used 
on account of its hardness; ‘‘ Redwood,” “ Jabon,” very durable, 
used in building ; ‘“‘ Wild hazel,” “ Avellano,” resembling the hazel ; 
and “ Balsam,” ‘‘ Balsamo,” a hard red wood, used for rollers in 
sugar mills. 
British HonpurRas. 
It is remarkable that the trees of this colony, yielding as it does 
such invaluable species as mahogany (Swietenia Mahagoni, L.) and 
logwood (Hematoxylon campechianum, L.), should not be more 
thoroughly ascertained than they are. They include 
Cedrela odorata, L. ‘‘ Cedar.” (Meliacee.) 
Maclura tinctoria, Don. ‘‘ Fustic.” (Morece.) 
Achras Sapota, L. ‘* Sapodilla” or ‘‘ Bully.” (Sapotacee.) 
Mimosa, sp. ‘‘ Braziletto” (= Cesalpinia brasiliensis ?). (Legwminose.) 
Hibiscus, sp. ‘* Mahoe” (= Paritiwm elatum, Dow. ?). (Malvacee.) 
Terminalia, sp. ‘* Red mangrove” (= Rhizophora decandra ?). 
“Rosewood,” ‘Pitch Pine,” ‘Santa Maria,” “ Dogwood,” 
“ Lignum-Vite,” “ Wild Tamarind,” ‘‘Samwood,” “ Black” and 
“ White Mangrove,” and “ Button-wood.” Since 1865 mahogany, 
“cedar,” and “logwood” are the only species exported. [Wray, 
“ Journ. Soc. Arts” (1859), vii., 428, and ‘“ Forestry and Forest 
Products,” Edinburgh (1885), p. 386. | 
CUBA. 
Provided with extensive, varied, and valuable forests, especially 
in the central and eastern parts, Cuba exports but little timber ; 
and even uses imported American pine in its sea-ports, partly, no 
doubt, from the want of roads in the interior. The following list of 
the useful trees of the island, arranged under their local names, many 
of which have been tested by loading pieces, 1 square inch thick and 
about a yard in length, up to their breaking-point, is taken from one 
drawn up by Mr Francis A. Saurallef of Habana in 1874. 
