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(Vatica Rassack), and other species botanically unde- 

 termined, such as BlLLlAN and COMPASS from Borneo, 

 TRINCOMALEE WOOD (Berrya Ammomilla, Roxb.) 

 from Ceylon, the STINKWOOD (Ocotea bullata, Nees), 

 and other valuable timbers from Cape Colony ; the 

 SANTA MARIA (Calophyllum Calaba, Jacq.) and AN- 

 GELIN (Andira inermis, Kunth) of the West Indies, 

 and many others. There are still, however, unfortu- 

 nately, many of these which are not botanically deter- 

 mined. Such are the valuable AMBOYNA WOOD 

 from the Malay Archipelago, probably a species of 

 Pterocarpus, also known as KlABOOCA WOOD, the 

 various species of Dalbergia, and other genera from 

 both East and West, known as ROSEWOODS, and to a 

 less extent the EBONIES and SANDALWOODS. 



Diospyros Embryopteris, Pers., of India, and D. Ebe- 

 num, Keen., of Ceylon, yield the true EBONY. D. 

 qucesita^hw., is the CALAMANDER WOOD ; but other 

 species, such as D. melanoxylon, Roxb., from India, and 

 from Tropical Africa, produce similar valuable woods. 



Santalum album L. is the SANDAL-WOOD of India, 

 \ Freycinetianutn, Gaudich. and S . paniculatum, Hook, 

 and Arn. that of the Sandwich Islands, S. Yast, 

 Seem., that of Fiji, S. austro-caledoniciim, Vieill., 

 of New Caledonia, and 5. spicatum, A.DC. ( = 

 Fusanus) of West Australia. 



As to timbers used for construction, we have infor- 

 mation in the papers by the veteran technologist, Mr. 

 P. L, Simmonds, in the 'Nautical Magazine' for 1874 

 and 1875, and in the late Mr. Thomas Laslett's 

 masterly work, 'Timber and Timber-trees' (1875). 

 Mr. W. Stevenson has reprinted from the ' Timber 



