34^^ LEGUiMINOS.E YIELDING WOOD FOR 



Butea superba (Climbing Shrub).— A huge climbing plant. The 

 wood is dark brown, very porous and fibrous. 



Bocoa prouacensjs (Tree). — A tree lo metres high and one or more 

 metres in diameter. The wood is very fine and well suited for cabinet- 

 making, wood carving, musical instrument making, and turned work. 

 Its saiD-wood is almost as hard and compact as the wood itself. This 

 latter as very hard and heavy and of an almost uniform brownish-grey 

 colour. In a polished section one sees a stippling of grey on a brown 

 background which is marked by a fine regular streak, stretching from 

 the centre to the circumference, and only visible by means of a magnify- 

 ing glass. In longitudinal section it shows an extremely fine grain and 

 the colour is yellowish or brownish-grey besprinkled with small brown 

 linear blotches. The boundary of the colour between the wood and the 

 yellow sap-wood forms an almost regular circle. 



Caragana brevispina (Shrub).— A spiny shrub with a light 



yellowish-brown wood. It is used for various purposes in India. 



Caragana ambigua (Shrul)).— This species and Caragana Geraidiana 

 are two Indian shrubs yielding a yellow wood with a hard red heart- 

 wood. 



Castanospermum australe (Tree).— A tree known as the " Moreton 

 Bay Chestnut." The wood is hard and the colour white with a yellow 

 tinge. 



Centrolobium paraense (Tree).— A Brazilian building wood called 

 ■pait rainha. 



Centrolobium robustum (Tree).— The building wood erriba, of 

 Brazil. 



Centrolobium tomentosum (Tree).— An uncommon wood greatly 

 valued for cabinet-making. 



Colutea nepalensis (Shrub).— One of the few shrubs of the Hima- 

 layan valleys yielding wood; very common near Simla (India). 



Cordyia africana (Tree).— The average height of this tree is 

 10 metres, with a diameter of 70 cm. The bark is thin and the wood 

 finely-grained and compact. Although hard it is a good wood to work, 

 and is not attacked by worms or ants. It is suitable for cabinet-making, 

 joinery, carj^entry, carriage building, ship construction, ships' timbers, 

 mortars and pestles, &c. According to M. Constancia, the weight of 

 the cubic metre is i'oqo kilos. In the Sudan this tree grows in all 

 kinds of soils. 



Coumarouna odorata (Tree). — A large tree very common in Guiana. 

 It is called guaiacum wood, and has the hardness of that species. It is 

 pinkish yellow in colour and formed of very fine fibres, and has, in 

 longitudinal section, the appearance of partridge wood with the colours 

 toned down and merged into each other. It is chiefly used in making 



