BALATA BEECH. 159 



United States and Canada. Height 80100 ft. ; diam. 34 

 ft. S.G. 452. W 28-2. R 589 kilos. Ash percentage -55. Relative 

 fuel value '45. Co-efficiency of elasticity 84010 kilos. Resist- 

 ance to longitudinal pressure 348 kilos. Resistance to identation 

 63 kilos. White to light brown, light, soft, tough, close-grained, 

 easily worked, but not strong, shrinking considerably in drying ; 

 but durable. Extensively used for cheap furniture, toys, carriage- 

 panels, chair-seats, carpentry, turnery, cooperage, and to some 

 extent for paper-pulp and charcoal. It is sometimes worked up 

 by a spirally-cutting saw, sawing round the log, so as to make a 

 thin board as long as the log and as much as 100 ft. broad. 



Basswood, White (Tilia heterophylla Vent.). Middle and 

 Southern States. Not distinguished commercially from the pre- 

 ceding. 



Bay-wood. See Mahogany. 



Bead-tree (Melia compdsita Willd. = M. Azedardch L. : Order 

 Melidcece). " Persian Lilac," " Pride of India." In Australia 

 " White Cedar " or " Cape Lilac." Hind. " Nim." French " Lilas 

 des Indes," "Sykornore," "Laurier grec." Port. " Margosa." 

 Tamil " Vem-pu," Syria, India, China, Australia, Height 

 4050 ft. ; diam. 12 ft. W 3038. Sapwood yellowish-white; 

 heart yellowish to reddish-brown, handsomely marked, especially 

 vertically, soft and rather loose-textured, easily worked, but 

 taking a good polish and becoming hard and durable, but warping 

 and splitting. It is used in India for furniture, being known in. 

 the south as " Bastard Cedar." 



Beat! (Cassia sidmea Lamk. : Order Legumindsce). Sinhalese 

 " Wa " Southern India, Ceylon, Burma. Heart nearly black, 

 often beautifully mottled longitudinally, very hard. Used in 

 Burma for mallets and walking-sticks, and in Ceylon for fuel for 

 railway-engines. Exported to Bombay and thence to England as 

 "Bombay black wood" or "Rosewood." 



Beech, Common (Fdgus sylvdtica L. : Order Cupuliferce). Germ. 

 "Gemeiner" or "Roth Buche," Dutch "rood beuke," Danish 

 " bog," Swedish " bok," Russian and Polish " buk," ltd. "faggio," 

 Portug. "faya," Span. " haya," French "hetre." S.G. 700720, 



