WASHIBA 



Tangential Section. As the Radial, but the pores are scarcely 

 so coarse. The rays are spindle-shaped lines, just visible by 

 their numbers appearing something like those of Mahogany. 



Type specimen authenticated by the Forest Officer to the 

 Government of British Guiana. The figure from a section by 

 Nordlinger, 



No. 86. WASHIBA. Parinarium sp. (probably 

 guianense). Aubl. 

 PLATE VII. FIG. 57. 



It is upon the assumption that this is the correct name that 

 the various references have been compiled. 



Natural Order. Rosaceae. 



Synonyms. Ferolia guianense. Aubl. F. variegata, Lam. 



Alternative Names. Waciba : Bow- wood. Ferolier : Bois 

 Satine. Bois Ferole (3). 



Source of Supply. Guiana. Guadeloupe. 



Physical Characters, etc. Weight, about 55 Ibs. per cu. ft. 

 Hardness Grade 3, compare Blackthorn. Solution with water 

 faint brown. 



Grain. Moderately fine : open. Surface, rather lustrous : 

 Pores dull with some shining resin-drops : rays dull but incon- 

 spicuous. 



Bark. ? 



Uses, etc. " Bows, fishing-rods, exceedingly tough and elastic. 

 Rare. Will square 30 inches free of sap-wood, by 120 feet 

 long" (78). 



Authorities. McTurk, No. 54 (78). Aublett (3). Wiesner 

 (131), L. 6, p. 80. 



Colour. Heart-wood rich reddish-brown " a beautiful red 

 splashed with yellow, satiny " (3), well but not sharply defined 

 from the brownish or yellowish-white sap-wood, which is "two 

 feet thick to one of heart, white, hard, heavy and compact " (3). 



Anatomical Characters. Transverse section : 



Pores. Prominent, size 2, little variation : evenly and widely 

 scattered : few, o-io per sq. mm. : single, sub-divided a few 

 threes and sometimes as many as seven in a group, radially 

 disposed or clustered : many with red contents. 



Rays. Need lens : size 6 (or rather larger), uniform : equi- 

 distant : weak but not avoiding the pores though often inter- 

 rupted by them : much less than the width of a large pore :> 

 long: denser than the ground: extremely numerous, n 13 

 per mm. : the same colour as the ground but lighter. 



Rings. Doubtful, but if indicated by the lines of soft-' 



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