170 WOODS OF COMMERCE. 



Blackwood, in Cape Colony (Pwycna lucida L. : Order 

 Ebendcece). Boer " Zwartbast," Zulu " Umcaza." Height 40 50 

 ft. ; diam. 1- 2 ft. Yellowish with brown stripes, hard, tough, 

 taking a good polish. Used in waggon-building, but adapted for 

 furniture or turnery. E. nitida Thunb., from Natal, is a smaller 

 but similar wood, known by the same vernacular names. 



Blackwood, Indian (Dalbcrgia latifolia Roxb. : Order Legu- 

 mindsce). " Malabar Blackwood," " Eose-wood." Beng. " Sit 

 Sal," Tarn. " Iti." India. A large tree reaching 5 feet diam. 

 S.G. 1064818. W 66-5. K 522602 Ibs. Sapwood whitish ; 

 heart greenish-black, often mottled with lighter purplish streaks, 

 heavy, hard, tough, close but cross grained, and, therefore, 

 difficult to work, taking a fine polish. Used for sleepers, agricul- 

 tural implements, gun-carriages, cart-wheels, tool-handles, carving, 

 and especially furniture, for which purpose it is exported, via 

 Bombay, and has fetched 13 10s. per ton in London. With it 

 is confused the wood of its variety D. latifdlia, var. sissoides, 

 known in Tamil as " Biti," a smaller tree common in the extreme 

 south of India, very strong and tough, but with much heart- 

 shake and so much oil as to be unfit to receive paint ; and that of 

 D. cultrdta in Burma. [See Yen-dike.]. 



Bloodwood (Eucalyptus cwymbdsa Sm. : Order Myrtdcece). 

 Aborig. "Boona." Southern Queensland and New South Wales. 

 Height 30100 ft.; diam. 14 ft. S.G. 983853. W 72-6. 

 E 1023. /7'57. fc 4-48. fs "615. Dark red-brown, moderately 

 heavy, easily dressed, straight and close in grain, but full of gum- 

 veins and not, therefore, a favourite with sawyers, becoming hard 

 on drying, very strong and durable, little attacked by termites. 

 Used chiefly for posts and rails, but also for piles and sleepers. 

 The name is also applied to the allied E. termindlis F. v. M. of the 

 interior, the "Arang-mill" of the aborigines, a very red wood, 

 forming the chief large timber of the area, but not otherwise 

 valuable ; and also to E. paniculdta Sm. [See Ironbark, White 

 and Ironwood xxi.]. 



Bloodwood, Brush, or Scrub (Battglma lucida Endl. : Order 

 Euphorbidcece). " Eoger Gough." New South Wales, Queensland, 



