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finely figured with an attractive mottle, and high prices 
are secured for these, 5s. and 6s. per foot of 1 ft. by 
12 in. not being uncommon. 
The wood is largely used for brush backs, but much 
of the finest is bought for conversion into veneer for 
cabinet-makers’ use. It is a difficult wood to work, 
however, not taking glue readily, and requiring very 
skilled workmanship, and is thus only seen in furniture 
of good grade for which a sufficient price can be realised 
to repay the cost of manufacture. It will not compare 
in colour with the fine satin woods of the West Indian 
Islands and has not, moreover, such bold and striking 
figure as some of those woods possess, but it is, never- 
theless, when finely figured, a most attractive and 
beautiful wood. It is interesting to note its uses in 
India, compared with those elsewhere, among the 
many cited being building work, bridge construction, 
wharf piles, felloes, and is durable as a material for 
railway sleepers, but too valuable. 
Rosewood.—Generally known as East Indian Rose- 
wood, and sometimes in India as Bombay Blackwood. 
It grows in fair quantities in Central and Southern 
India and other parts, reaching its greatest size through- 
out the Western Ghats. It is rather plentifully exported 
to Great Britain, where it arrives in round logs ranging 
up to a diameter of about 36 in. or more. The wood 
is of dark reddish purple, with black marks, and has a 
hard but rather coarse and open texture. It is a 
handsome wood and valuable, being employed in 
limited quantities for cutting into veneers for the 
use of pianoforte makers and others: the greater 
proportion, however, is re-exported, a good demand 
being found for the wood on the Continent. 
Padouk or Andaman Redwood.—This is a remarkably 
handsome wood which is obtained from the Andaman 
