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States. It has also been recommended in cholera and dysentery, 

 and has been considered as efficacious as kino or catechu. Many 

 species of Ccesalpinia also furnish dyestuffs, usually red. The 

 following species are mentioned among others : — Ccesalpinia ec/iinata, 1 

 supposed to produce the Brazil-wood, Pernambuco, St. Martha, and 

 Antilles-wood ; C. Sappan* the Sappan-wood or bukkum-wood of 

 India ; C. crista, 3 also sometimes called Brazil-wood or Bresillot ; C. 

 brasiliensis, 4 the Brasilletto or Eed-wood of Jamaica; and C. tinctoria 6 

 of Peru and Colombia, used like the preceding species for dyeing- 

 red and black. C. ba/tamensis 6 and Scpiaria, 7 though less in request, 

 possess the same properties. As tinctorial plants are also used 

 Cassia brasiliana* and auriculata, the Ilymenaas which Allemao has 

 named Peltoyyne Guarabii and macrolobium? several Bauhinias,™ Mperua 

 falcata Aubl., 11 Vouapa Simiria Aubl., 12 Melanoxylon Brauna Schott, 11 

 &c. 



Nearly all the arborescent Casalpiniece afford useful and often 

 valuable woods, a mine of wealth for tropical countries. The struc- 

 ture of these woods should be studied by observers on the spot. 

 The botanical origin of many of the commercial species or kinds is 

 but little known. Thus, the true origin of the American Angelica 

 and Vouacapou woods, so-called, was long unknown. The former 

 belongs to Dicorynia paraensis Benth., 14 a fine tree from Guiana and 

 South Brazil, very solid for building purposes, and resisting the 

 action of damp ; it is hence used for making bridges, balustrades, 

 and railway sleepers. 15 The latter wood does not belong to an 

 Andira, as was thought, but to a member of the series Sclero- 



1 Lame., Diet., i. 461.— DC, Prodr., ii. 483, 9 Ex Rosextit., op. cit., 1041. 



n. 19. — Chiilandina echinata Spreng., Syst., ii. 10 Especially B. variegata (Roxb., ex LlNDL., 



327 (Ibirapitanga Maecge.). Veg. Kingd., 550). 



2 L., Spec, 544. — Roxb., PI. Coromand., i. u Oman., i. 369, t. 142. — Dvmorpka falcata 

 t. 16. — DC, Prodr., n. 6. — Guib., op. cit., iii. Sm., in Pees Cyclop., n. 3. Its bark is bitter, 

 317. and is used as an emetic by the Arrawack Indians. 



3 L., Spec, 544.— DC, Prodr., n. 11. ,2 Guian., i. 26, t. 8.— V. violacea Lamk., 



4 L., Spec.. 544 (part.). — DC, Prodr., n. 5. — III., t. 420. — Macrolobium Simira GME1., Syst., 

 C. baliamensis Lamk. ? i. 93. — M. spliarocarpum W., Spec, i. 186. 



s Cav., Pral., ex DC, Cat. Sort. Momp., 13 Ap. Speeng., Syst., Cur. Post., 406.— 

 84. — Coulteria tinctoria H. B. K., Nov. Gen. et Rosenth., op. cit., 1032. — Perittiinn ftrri'- 

 Spec, vi. 329, t. 569. — C. Gat, PI. Chil., ii. gineum Vog., in Linncea, xi. 408 {Maria pn ta 

 222.— Poinciatia Tara R. & Rat., ex DC, of the Brazilians). 

 Prodr., ii. 481, n. 3. — Tara tinctoria Mol., 14 In IIoolc. Jowm., ii. 82. 

 Chil., 164. — Poinciana spinosa Eecill. (Tara- 15 A wood of the highest value for naval 

 tara of the Chilians). purposes, being proof against insects and ship- 

 6 Lamk., Diet., i. 461. — DC, Prodr., n. 10. worms. It supplies pieces of timber of L6 or 20 

 ' Roxb., Fl. Ind., ii. 360. metres long. Three varieties are known — black, 

 8 See p. 151, note 3. red, and white (strength:=215 kilos.). 



