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miglit be used the wood of several Pindaibas, whose wood is, 

 according to De Mautius,' rather heavy, as stated above. The same 

 author calls attention to a certain Aheremoa {Buguetia Spixiana), as 

 having a tolerably dense wood ('70), and asserts that that of the 

 Pindaiba branca, of the Province of St. Paul (which is really X 

 fruiescens or sericea), has a density of "626, and a somewhat brownish 

 colour. Many species of this genus, such as X. emarginata, frutescena, 

 are remarkable for the rapidity with which the branches take root 

 when fixed in the ground ; and hence are very fit for making quick- 

 set hedges.- 



The Aiionacece are rarely ornamental plants. Their flowers, not 

 usually very striking, have corollas that long remain green, and only 

 grow larger slowly, in some species long after the expansion of the 

 flower. The petals then gradually assume a white, pink, or yellow 

 tint, more rarely chamois colour or orange, or sometimes again, a 

 more decided red, flame-coloured, crimson or carmine. Many are 

 mahogany or chocolate brown ; sometimes we find a purple or violet 

 shade, and Uvaria {Sajjranthus) nicaragitensis is said to be of a bluish 

 violet. Here the odour of the corolla is foetid, but in the yellow and 

 brown ones it often recalls the perfume of certain fleshy fruits, or 

 the aroma of the nutmeg, clove, or cinnamon. 



1 See p. 257, note 4. In Jamaica the wood of to Attblet {op. cif., 610), the wood of his Abe- 

 Oxandra lanceolata (p. 201, note 1) serves for remoa rfnlanensis is used for similar purposes, 

 axletrees and other parts of carriages. According - See JF/. -Broj., ui»JO«ac., 6-i. 



