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GUM ELEMI. GUMBO LIMBO. WEST-INDIAN BIRGH. 



Semi-tropical Florida, cape Canaveral to the southern keys, west coast Oaloosa river and Caximbas bay; 

 through the West Indies. 



A tree often 18 meters in height, with a trunk 0.50 to 0.70 meter in diameter ; one of the largest and most 

 common trees of southern Florida, @f very rapid growth and decay. 



Wood very light, exceedingly soft and weak, spongy, containing many scattered open ducts ; medullary 

 rays numerous, thin ; color, light brown or gray, quickly discoloring with decay ; specific gravity, 0.3003 ; ash, 

 2.04; used in making live-fences, pieces of the trunk when planted in the coral rock of the keys throwing out roots 

 and growing rapidly. 



The aromatic resin obtained from this species was formerly somewhat used in vaiious forms, under the name of 

 Garanna, as a remedy for gout ( Watts^ Ghem. Diet, i, 749. Guibourt, Hist. Drogues, 7 ed. iii, 525, f. 749) ; and in the 

 West Indies is manufactured into a valuable varnish. An infusion of the leaves is occasionally used as a domestic 

 substitute for tea. 



30. Amyris sylvatica, Jacqnin, 



Am. Pict. t. 108. Willdenow, Spec, ii, 333. Alton, Hort. Kew. 2 ed. ii, 351. De Candolle, Prodr. ii, 81. Dietrich, Syn. ii, 1271. 

 Macliidyen, Fl. Jamaica, 231. Richard, Fl. Cuba, 393. Grisebach, Fl. British West Indies, 174. Planchou & Triana in Ann. 

 Sci. Nat. 5 ser. xv, 321. Vasey, Cat. Forest Trees, 8. 



Toxieodendron arborescens, Miller, Diet. No. 9. 



A. dyatripa, Sprengel, Nene Entdeck. iii, 48. De Candolle, Prodr. ii, 8l! 



Ehus arborescens, De Candolle, Prodr. ii, 73. 



A. Plumieri, De Candolle, Prodr. ii, 81. 



A. Floridana, Nuttall in Am. Jour. Sci. v, 294; Sylva ii, 114, t. 78; 2 ed. ii, 61, t. 78. De Candolle, Prodr. ii, 81.-Torrey 

 & Gray, Fl. N. America, i, 221. Eaton, Manual, 6 ed. 16. Eaton & Wright, Bot. 123. Loudon, Arboretum, ii, 561. 

 Cooper in Smithsonian Rep. 1858, 264. Chapman, Fl. S. States, 68. Wood, Bot. & Fl. 72. Vasey, Cat. Forest Trees, 8. 



A. cymosa, Reichenbach in Sieb. PI. Trin. No. 29t. 



A. maritima, Richard, Fl. Cuba,392 [not Jacquin]. 



TORCH WOOD. 



Semi-tropical Florida, Mosquito inlet to the southern keys ; in the West Indies. 



A small tree sometimes 7 meters in height, with a trunk 0.20 to 0.25 meter in diameter; common. 



Wood very heavy, exceedingly hard,and strong, close-graiued, compact, resinous, exceedingly durable, susceptible 

 of a beautiful polish ; medullary rays obscure; color, light orange, the sap-wood lighter; specific gravity, 1.0459; 

 ash, 0.59. 



MELIACEJH]. 



31. Swietenia Mahogoni, Linnffius, 



Spec. 2 ed. 548. Jacquin, Stirp. Am. t. 127. Cavanilles, Dias. ii, 365, t. 209. Gaertner, Fruct. ii, S9, t. 96. Lamarck, Diet, iii, 678. 

 Willdenow, Spec, ii, 557. Alton, Ilort. Kew. 2 ed. ii, 338. Titford, Hort. Bot. Am. 64. Descourtilz, Fl. Med. Antilles, ii, 125, t., 

 99. De Candolle, Prodr. i, 625. Turpin in Diet. Sci. Nat. Atlas, t. 170. Tnssac, Fl. Antilles, iv, t. 23. Haync, Arzn. i, t. 19. 

 Hooker, Bot. Misc. i, 21, t. 16, 17. A. do Jussieu in Mora. Mus. xix, 248, t. 11. Don, Miller's Diet, i, 687, f. 116. Woodville, Med. 

 Bot. 3 ed. iir, 620, t. 220. Spach, Hist. Veg. iii, 164, t. 21. Lindley, Fl. Med. 155. Macfadyen, Fl. Jamaica, 175. Torrey & Gray, 

 Fl. N.America, i, 242. Eaton, Manual, 6 ed. 360. Eaton & Wright, Bot. 447. Walpers, Rep. i, 436. Nuttall, Sylva, ii, 98, t. 75; 

 2 ed. ii, 46, t. 75. Richard, Fl. Cuba, 304. Schnizleiu, Icon. t. 226, f. 1. Cooper in Smithsonian Rep. 1858, 264. Darby, Bot. S. 

 States, 263. Chapman, Fl. S. States, 62. Grisebach, Fl. British West Indies, 131. Wood, Bot. & Fl. 66. Baillon, Hist. PI. v, 

 478, f. 472-476. Guibourt, Hist. Drogues, 7 ed. iii, .596.- Tippel & Bollevar, Ausland. Cult. Pfl., Atlas, 1, t. 2, f. 1. C. De Candolle, 

 Suites, i, 723. Hemsley, Bot. Am. -Cent, i, 183. 



8. l^encgalensis, Desrousseaux in Lamarck, Diet, iii, 678. 

 Cedrm Mahogoni, Miller, Diet. No. 2. 



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