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cupboards made therefrom are usually protected by their perfume 

 against the attacks of insects. These woods are numerous in the 

 Antilles, Brazil, and especially in Guiana. But in this last country 

 many kinds are as yet only known by their vulgar names, without 

 its being exactly known to what botanical species they really 

 belong. Such are the yellow and brown 7«0^-woods, several 

 Sassafras and Anise-woods, and the male and female Rose-woods. 

 These are certainly from Laurads, but their genera are still unde- 

 termined. Licaria guianensis Aubl. 1 is one of these Rose-woods. 

 The marsh yellow-cedar-wood (bois de Cedre jaune de marais) of 

 Guiana is probably a Cryptocarya. One kind of Sassafras of Cay- 

 enne is Acrodiclidium c/irysophyllum, 2 and the grey cedar (Cedre gris) 

 of the same country is Ocotea splendens. 3 Nectandra exaltata* is the 

 Timber Sweet-wood of Jamaica. The wood of Dicypellium caryo- 

 phyllatuni is handsome and scented ; it has wrongly been supposed 

 to produce the true Rosewood. Misanteca capitata, 6 the Palo 

 misanteco of the Mexicans, yields a good wood. The wood of 

 Persea indica 1 is named VinJiatico in Madeira and the Canary 

 Islands. The Siribatti* of Guiana seems to be an Ocotea. The wood 

 is intolerably foetid in many species, such as Nectandra myriantha* of 

 Brazil, Ocotea bidlata 10 of the Cape, and 0. fattens, 11 the Til of the Cana- 

 ries. This species is cultivated in our orangeries, where its persistent 

 shining green leaves produce a fine effect, resembling the classic Laurel, 

 the tree of Apollo, of temperate Europe, sung and depicted by poets 

 and artists innumerable. The polymorphous leaves of the Sassafras are 

 curiously noted in our gardens ; and in our conservatories are found 

 species of Apollonias and Cinnamomum, whose flowers are insignificant, 

 but whose foliage is always handsome and more or less aromatic. 



1 See p. 447, note 11. Guib., op. cit., 397. species is cultivated and flowers in our botanical 

 The Galibis call it Licari kassali. It is also gardens. 



sold in Paris under the names of Bois jaune de 8 Lindl., Vet}. Kingd., 536. 



Cayenne, Citron de Cayenne, and Copahu. 9 Meissn., Prodr., 163, n. 58. — Mart., Fl. 



2 Meissn., Prodr., 87, n. 14. Bras., Laurac., 315. — Canella fosdorente of the 



3 Meissn., Prodr., 129, n. 83. natives (Kiedel). 



4 Geiseb., FL Brit. W. Ind„ 281.— Meissn., l0 E.MET.,iu PI. Drege.—Oreodaplme bullata, 

 Prodr., 165, n. 65. — Persea exaltata Speeng., Meissn., Prodr., 118, n. 31. — Stinkwood of the 

 — Oreodaphne exaltata Nees. The White English colonists. 



siveetwood of the Antilles is N. Willdenowiana n Laurus /ceteris Ait., Rort. Kew., ii. 39. — 



Nees (Syst., 290, 321. — Meissn., Prodr., n. Persea faetens Speeng., Syst., ii. 268. — Oreo- 



64. — Lawrus sanguinea Sw. (part.). daphne feet ens Nees, Syst., 449. — Meissn., 



6 See p. 462, notes 5, 6. Prodr., n. 32. It is also called Vignatico, 



6 See p. 469, notes 4-8. Arbol santo and Madeira Laurel at Madeira 



? Speeng., Syst., ii. 268.— Meissn., Prodr., (see p. 434, fig. 250). 



52, n. 33. — Laurus indica L., Spec., 529. This 



