440 ECONOMIC FORESTRY. 
WINDWARD ISLANDS. 
Barbadoes is wholly dependent, even for fuel, upon importation ; 
and the area under timber has been rapidly diminishing in the other 
islands of this group. Among the native trees of St Vincent are 
Calophyllum Calaba, Jacq., ‘ Galba,” used for furniture ; Cithar- 
exylon, “fiddlewood,” ‘bois fidéle,” used for posts, shingles, ete. ; 
’ Hematozylon cam- 
Hippomane mancinella, L., ‘ manchineel ;’ 
pechianum, L., “logwood,” used chiefly as fuel; Hymenea 
Courbaril, L., “locust,” used for furniture and in cart-building ; 
Nectandra, “greenheart,’ used for wheel-naves; Sapota masti- 
chodendron, Jacq.,‘‘ mastic,” used for posts and water-wheels; S. 
Sideroxylon, Gr., “ bullet,” used for carts and machinery ; Tecoma 
pentaphylla, Juss., ‘ white cedar,” used for piles and boat-building ; 
“‘cypress,” used for shingles, and “laurier,” for planks. 
From Grenada, where the Crown owns about 2000 acres of timber, 
the chief wood exported is logwood, mahogany, and cedar. Man- 
chineel and “‘savonette” (Sapindus Saponaria) are among the 
furniture-woods of the island ; ‘ galba,” “ calabash” (Cvrescentia), 
and “seaside grape” (Coccoloba uvifera), among those used for 
ship-building ; logwood and mangrove, the chief fuel. For build- 
ing, white cedar, logwood, bullywood, locust, gum arabic acacia, 
‘“‘Jaurier” (Cordia), ‘“surette” (Byrsonima), ‘mangrove ” (Rhizo- 
phora), “tapana” (Rhopala), “tendre accyon” (Mimosa), “ sa- 
podilla pennypiece,” and ‘‘maromba” are employed ; and the bark 
of the cashew (Anacardium occidentale), the hog plum (Spondias), 
guava, mangrove, and sea-side grape are used. 
Nearly half the area (55 out of the 114 square miles) of Tobago is 
under wood. Among the valuable trees are ‘‘ greenheart ” (Z’ecoma), 
the ‘‘ black greenheart ” of Demerara ; “ cogwood” (Tecoma penta- 
phylla); “bullet tree” (Sapota Sideroxylon); “ fiddlewood” 
(Citharerylon melanocardium); ‘white cypress” (Cordia) ; 
“black cypress” (Laurus) ; “wild tamarind” (Mimosa arborea) ;- 
“ soap-wood ” (Inga ingoides) ; the ‘ simaruba” (Quassia excelsa) ; 
the mastic ; locust ; fustic; angelin ; manchineel, or “‘ West India 
upas-tree ;” the “ pimenta,” or “all-spice tree;” the “cedar” 
(Cedrela odorata), from which cigar-boxes are made ; the “ horse- 
flesh ;” ‘‘purple-heart ;” ‘‘crabwood ;” ‘yellow prickle,” and 
“‘ yellow sanders.” 
In St Lucia, 118 square miles out of a total of 237 produce 
timber ; and about two-thirds of this is in Government hands. 
