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several Schotias are valued for their hard whitish wood, especially 

 S. latifolia? Among the remaining African Casalpiniea valuable 

 for their wood we may mention Afzelia africana? common on the 

 banks of the Casamance, whose wood is hard and close-grained, 

 clouded with light violet; Dei avium microcarpum* of Senegal, ex- 

 cellent for boat-building; and Dialium nitidum* or Solome 5 of Sene- 

 gambia, for fine carpenter's work and turning. The only woods 

 from India and the Indian Archipelago which are cited as useful 

 are those of Afzelia bijueja, Dialium, indicuni (Tamarind Plum), Saraca 

 indica, 7 the Sappan and Tamarind, and several Bau/iinias. 8 These 

 last have often a textile bark : coarse but strong ropes are made from 

 that of B. tumentosa L., purpurea Sw., Adansoma, 9 and reticulata™ 

 In this order, as a rule, the barks furnish but few useful products, 

 except those rich in tannin and used in preparing skins. We may, 

 however, refer to that of Bur/cea, 11 which passes for an astringent and 

 tonic ; that of Cadia, used in the treatment of intestinal complaints 

 in Arabia ; 12 that of several American Cassias, a febrifuge ; that of 

 Brownea cocci?iea, u much used in piles ; and finally, that of the 

 Abyssinian Kantuffa, on which Biiuce 14 wrote so interesting a chapter, 

 and which belongs to Btcrolobium Kantuffa, 15 The trunks of various 

 species of Gleditschia, Gymnocladus, Cercis, and Ceratonia are used for 

 timber in temperate Europe, Asia, and North America. 



1 Jacq., Fragm., 23, t. 15, fig. 4. — DC, variegata L., &c. — (See Rosenth., op. cit., 

 Prodr., ii. 50S, n. 6. — Haev. & Sond., Fl. Cap., 1043, 1044.— Beuce, Voyag., trad. Castee, 

 ii. 274.— Kosesth., op. cif., 1041. — Omphalo- v. 73). 



Hum Scholia Jacq. (The Boor Bourn of the 9 Guill. & Peee., Fl. Seneg. Tent., i. 265 



Dutch colonists). (Raund of the negroes). 



2 Smith, in Trans. Linn. Soc, iv. 221. — 10 Gtjill. & Peee., op. cit., 266, t. 60. — 

 Guill. & Peee., Fl. Seneg. Tent., i. 263, t. 57. B. Thonningii Schum., Beskr., i. 223 (Ghighis of 



3 Guill. & Peee., op. cil., 271 {Dunk of the the negroes). — The bark is very astringent, and 

 Cayor natives). much used in chronic dysentery; gum sweats from 



4 Guill. & Peee., op. cif., 267, t. 58.— the leaves. 



D. guineense W., in Bcem. Arch., 1, 31, t. 6. — n Especially that of B. africana Hook., and 



H. Bn., in Adansonia, vi. 198. — (See above, page that of another broad-leaved species from Angola, 



129, note 4, figs. 114-117). which we call B. Caperangan ; its decoction is 



5 Sorum or Solum oi the Cape Verde negroes, used by the women to give firmness to their 

 Kocyto of the Mandingos. organs. 



6 D.Indum L., Manliss., 24. — DC, Prodr., ii. I3 The infused leaves of C. purpurea serve the 

 520, n. 1. — Rosenth., op. cit., 10 16. same purpose. 



7 L., Mantiss., 98.— Jonesia Asoca Roxb., Cat. n Jacq., Amer., 194, t. 121. — DC, Prodr., 

 Bort. Calc, 26. — DC, Prodr., ii. 487, n. 1. — ii. 477, n. 2 (Hose de Montagne of the Venczue- 

 J. pinnata, W., Spec, ii. 2S7. — This plant is lans. — See above, p. 97, figs. 70-72. — ROSENTH., 

 cultivated in our conservatories for the sake of its op. cit., 1047). 



beautiful orange-calyxed flowers. The inflores- 14 Voyag., loc. cit., 64. 



cences are offered to the gods in the temples of 15 P. laceransR. Be., in App. Salt. ,6-1 (part ). 



India, as are those of Amherslia nob His. > — Quarlinia ahyssinica A. Rich., in Ann. So. 



8 Especially Bauhinia acuminata 1.., which Nat. ser. 2, xiv., 260, 1. 14 ; xv. 180. — Mimosa 

 produces a kind of Ebony- wood, purpurea BiiNTH., Kantuffa DC, Prodr., ii. 431. 



