58 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



as is that of Xylia dolabriformis, 1 in the East Indies. Oars are 

 made from the branches of Dichrostachys cinerecf in the same 

 country. Many species of Acacia proper, including the gum species, 

 have a valuable wood, more or less hard and coloured. The light 

 red wood of A. arabica, is the Diababul wood 3 of authors. A. 

 Cavenia, 4 catechuoides Eoxb. and horrida W. are valued for building 

 purposes and for fuel ; the ashes of the first are used in soap- 

 boiling in South America, and the last is used at the Cape in 

 fumigations for cases of cramp, epilepsy, &c. The variegated 

 yellow wood of A. heterophylla is used for boat-building. That of 

 A. Coa A. Gray, the Koa of the Sandwich Islands, is as much prized 

 as that of A. tenuifoliaW ., Kalkona Eoxb., floribunda W., and dodonai- 

 folia Desf., for carpentry and cabinet work. The lovely blackish 

 wood of A. melanoxyloii {Black-wood or Light-wood), and the charm- 

 ing sweet-scented Violet-wood or Myall-wood, from A. homedophytta,* are 

 among the most remarkable products furnished by Australian Leyu- 

 minosce to the cabinet-maker. A. scleroxylon Tuss. is another Tendre- 

 a-caillou of the Antilles. In the section Albizzia, several species 

 furnish valuable wood, such as A. odoratissima, 1 Lebbek* Julibrissin? 

 and stipulata™ A. montana? from Java, is the Caju Ticcos major, or 

 Large Mouse-wood (Fr., Grand Bois de souri-s), very pretty, and easy to 

 polish, and used to make elegant boxes. But it has a peculiar 

 smell, which attracts mice ; it is, however, sometimes used as a 

 condiment in cooking. 



1 See page 26, note 1. 8 A. speciosa W., ex W. & Aen., Prodr., i. 



- W. & Aen., Prodr., i. 271. — Desmanthus 275. — Mimosa Sirissa Roxb., Fl. Ind., ii. 554. — 



cinereus W., op. cit., iv. 1048. — Mimosa cinerea M. Lebbek Blanc, /7. d. Filipp., 133. — Albizzia 



L., Spec, 1505. Lebbek Benth., in Hook. Journ.,\\\. 87 {Cvllmt 



3 GtriB., op. cit., iii. 326. na/ray of the Malabars, Pois noir or Black wood 



4 Hook. & Aen., ap. Beech. Yoy. Pot., 21. of Pondicherry). 



— Rosenth., op. cit., 1060. (Caven, Espino, Flor 9 \\\, op. cit., iv. 1065. — Albizzia Julibrissin 



de aroma of the Chilians.) Dueazz., loc. cit. 



5 R. Be., in Ait. Sort. Kern., v. 462.— II . 10 DC, Prodr., ii. 469, n. 209.— Mimosa 

 Bn., in Adansonia, iv. 114, n. 27 (Plack icood stipulacea Roxb., Cat. Hort. Calc., 40. — Al- 

 of the Australians). bizzia stipulata Boiv. — Inga purpurascens Bl. 



6 A. Cunn., ex Benth., in Hook. Jouni., i. — /. vmbraculiformis .Itnoii. (Amlocko of the 

 365, n. 148. — H. Bn., in Adansonia, iv. 109, n. Bungalese, Sengon, Djindjing of the Javanese). 

 19. » Jungh., Tijd. Nat. Gesch., x. 246.— .4. 



7 W., op. cit., iv. 1063. — A. similis Zoll. — vulcanica Koetii., in Flora (1827), 705. — Inga 

 Mimosa odoratissima L., Suppl., 437. — Albizzia montana Jungii., in Top. Nat. Reis., 2S8. — 

 mierantha Boiv. — A. odoratissima Benth., loc. Albizzia montana BENTH., in Plant. Jungh., 

 cit. 267. 



