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Popenoe, in Pomona College Journal of Economic Botany, K 

 Sept, 1911, pp. 135-148, ft\ 59-65 (Dept, of Biology, Pomona 



College, Aitadena, California). The Avocado in HaAvaii, 



Higgins, Hunn and Holt, Hawaii Exp. Station, Bull. No. 25, 



1911, pp. 1~4S, illustrated. " Avocatier,'' in Fruits des pays 



chauds, Hubert, pp. 361-376 (Dunod & Pinat, Paris, 1912). 



New Varieties of the Avocado for Cahfornia, Ryerson, Univ. 



California Journ. Agric. i. Nov. 1913, pp. 29-36. '' Imported 



Varieties of the Avocado for Cahfornia," Ryerson, in Pomona 

 College Journal of Economic Botany, iii. Feb, 1914, pp. 426- 



439; illustrated. L'Avocatier, Pynaert, in Bull, Agric. Congo 



Beige, V. 1914, i)p. 123-172, illustrated. Commercial Culti* 



vation of Avocado & Mango, Cellon, pp. 1-47, illustrated 

 (Tropical Grove, Miami, Florida, 1917). 



PROTEACEAE. 



Faurea, Harv. 

 Faurea saligna, Harv. ; Fl. Trop. Air. VI. Sect. 1, p. 209, 



III, — Hooker, Lond. Journ. Bot. vi. 1847, t. 15; Transv, 

 Agric. Journ. iii. tt. 11, f. 1, 2; 12, f. 1 (habit), t. 82. 



Vernac. names, — Boekenhout (Rhodesia, Mundy ; Transvaal, 



Biirtt-Davy)] Terblanz (Cape Colony, 3IacOwan); Metsatsarh 

 (Rhodesia, Alleji) ; Mseje (Shire Highlands, Zomba, Buchanan ^ 

 Piirves) ; Gurahorgwe (C^hindao, Gazaland, Swynnerton) ; Mukoka 

 (Rmvenzori, Dawe), 



Katagum (Dalziel, No. 393, 1907, Herb. Kew), in the 

 countries mentioned under native names and in Mozambique 



and Angola. 



Wood hard and durable, used for building and fencing,., 

 Rhodesia (Allen, Herb. Kew), by the natives in charcoal -making: 

 also for doors and the floors of their raised huts, Gazaland 

 (Swynnerton, Journ. Linn. Soc. xl. 1911, p. 186) ; useful mottled, 

 timber, Ruwenzori (Dawe, Herb, Kew) ; durable and ant- 

 resistant and used for piles on which some houses are built and 

 for fence posts, occasionally for furniture (Burtt-Davy, Transv, 

 Agric. Journ. iii, 1904, p. 127). In 1916 a piece of wood 

 believed to be this species was submitted to Kew, it had been, 

 taken from H.M.S. " Thunderer," a Trafalgar ship broken up 

 about 1906. The specific gravity of a sample in the Museum. 

 (Dawe, No. 564, 1907) is 0*888 = 55-5 lb. per cubic ft. This^ 

 wood examined at the Imperial Institute was reported on as: 

 a very beautifully-figured wood of medium open grain and 

 uniform reddish-brown colour ; it takes nails well, rather hard 

 to saw and plane, turns fairly easily" ; but is brittle and takes 

 a good poHsh ; weight 58 lb. per cubic ft. (Mus. Kew). 



A shrub or a tree up to 60 ft. high ; at 6-8000 ft. Ruwenzori 

 (Dawe Lc.) ; one of the largest trees of the open woods, near 

 Chindlo at 3500 ft. ; Chimanimani Mts. at 7000 ft, in flower 

 Sept. Nov. & Dec. Gazaland (S^^ynnerton, Lc). 



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