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Desorlpblon or the wood 



Sa^jvi/ood thick, light brown; heartwood slijhtly darker, 

 Wood mcderatsly hard, light, not stron^j, straight, durable, 

 fine-grained, easy to work, taking a iaediam polish. 



i Pores f^fexaiisver^&e section) small (about ,13 ma, in diame- 

 ter), round, open, and arranged singly, in pairs, or in short 

 radial rows. Vessel walls Clonr-itiidinal section) in con- 

 tact v/ith parenchyma bears simple or bordered pits, usually 

 large, transverse, usually simple in contact with pith rays. 

 Perforations simple, j/ood fibers about ,306 mm, long, with 

 moderately thick walls and relatively small cell cavities, 

 septate, and simple pits, sometimes with a laarrow border, 

 .7ood i^arenoliyma s^^aringly developed, occurring only in connec- 

 tion with vessels. Pith rays very narrow, only one cell wide 

 and from 10 to £5 cells high."^ 



Distribution, common names and uses 



lliconia argentea (3v;,) D,3, was described originally by 

 Swart z from the I.Iosquito Shore in I^icaragua . It is met''with 

 from I'rinidad to :;uateraala along the Spanish Llain, and, on 

 the Pacific side of Central America, has also been reported 

 at several points bety/een the San IJiguel 3ay and the Llexicsn 

 bouiiiary in Guatemala, Its favorite resorts are on the bor- 

 ders of savannas and on semi-deforested clayey hills, where 

 it appears as a second growth. It forms a conspicuous fea- 

 ture in the landscape on account of its leaves ;/hich are cons- 

 tantly turned up by the winds, thus showing their white 

 under-faces. The tree is known by the following local names: 



/^ Qainillo , around Panama City, according to Seemann. 

 Ganillo , in Ohiriqul (Panama) 

 Cap ilote ,( derived from the nahuatl capolotl?) , in 'Juana- 



caste (Costa liica). 



Doa-Caras (= two faces), in the _j_.rovince of Los Santos 



(Panamaj , an allusion to the color contrast between the tv/o 



sides of -uhe leaf, 



L lancha-IIancha , in southern Darien (Panama), 



Maria , in ilicoya (Costa lUca). -n 



Llaria Colorado , in the Uiquis Valley (Costa llica),/ 



This variety of names, the list of v./hich could p^?*balJjy 



