102 Select Plants for Industrial Culture and 



Cedrela Australia, P. v. Mueller.* 



Eastern Australia, as far south as 36. The Australian Ked 

 Cedar or Cedrel. Foliage deciduous in cool regions. Attains a 

 height of 200 feet and sometimes a stem-girth of 18 feet near the 

 base. Messrs. Danger and Name measured a tree on the Macleay- 

 River, 48 feet in stem-circumference at 10 feet from the ground : 

 it yielded 80,000 feet of sound timber. Rev. Dr. Woolls noted also 

 in New South Wales trees so large as to yield 30,000 feet (super- 

 ficial) of timber. Market-value in Brisbane 7 10s. to 8 10s. per 

 1,000 superficial feet. The light, beautiful wood is easily worked and 

 susceptible of high polish ; it is very much in request for furniture, 

 for turnery including stethoscopes, for the manufacture of piano- 

 fortes, for boat-building, frames of window-blinds and a variety of 

 other joiners' work ; thus it is highly prized for building racing 

 boats, which weigh little over 30 Ibs., though 30~eet long, and yet 

 prove durable [S. Edwards], The timber from the junction of the 

 branches with the stem furnishes choice veneers. Altogether the 

 wood is much less liable to be bored by insects than most others. 

 The bark contains a considerable quantity of tannin, which pro- 

 duces a purplish leather [Fawcett]. This tree is hardy at Mel- 

 bourne, but of slow growth in open exposed gardens and poor soil 

 there. 



Cedrela Bogotensis. Triana and Planchon. 



New Granada, ascending to 8,500 feet, therefore unusually hardy. 

 The timber of this tree is there most extensively in use [Prof. 

 Sodiro]. 



Cedrela fissilis, Vellozo. (C. Brasiliensls, A. de Jussieu). 



From Argentina extending to Mexico. The timber is soft, 

 fragrant and easily worked; it is known as Acajou-wood. The 

 Surinam Cedar-Avood is furnished by C. Guianensis (A. de Jussieu), 

 the Peruvian kind by C. angustifolia (De Candolle), the Caracas 

 sort by C. montana (Turczaninow), the Argentine from C. Para- 

 guensis (Martius). 



Cedrela febrifugra, Blurae.* 



Java, Sumatra, Timor, in cooler mountain-regions. More closely 

 allied to C. Australis than to C. Toona. A tree, rising finally to a 

 height of 200 feet. Bark of tonic property. Hasskarl further 

 notes from Java C. Teysmanni and C. inodora. Cedrelas occur 

 also in New Guinea. 



Cedrela odorata, Linne. 



Mexico, Antilles, Guiana, in Jamaica up to 4,000 feet elevation 

 [W. Fawcett]. A comparatively tall tree, easily cultivated. It 

 succeeds as far south as Natal fj. M. Wood]. Wood light, of 

 pleasant odor, easily worked, preferentially chosen in its native 

 country for cigar-boxes and a variety of other articles, also furni- 

 ture. The tree exudes the aromatic Acajou-resin like C. fissilis. 



