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Guiana and the neighbouring countries, is rich in tannin, and serves 
to dye coarse fabrics and even to stain woods. 
The wood of the Mimose, though much less useful in this respect 
than that of the Cesalpiniea, is still frequently of good quality, and 
is prized by the carpenter, the cabinet-maker, and the turner. 4. 
arabica and Farnesiana are used in India for making axletrees and 
wheels. The wood of A. cinerea, odoratissima, Sundra, and. stipulata 
have their value; and that of 4. speciosa, dark and fine-grained, is 
used for furniture. It is a Mimosa from the forests of Brazil, that 
is said to furnish the handsome wood known as Jacandra- or Rose- 
wood of commerce; it possesses an excellent perfume when fresh.’ 
The useful woods of the same country, known by the names of 
Cabuy, Jacaré, Monjolo-ferro, are also attributed to this group. The 
Angico-wood of commerce comes, we are told, not from the Pipta- 
denia which furnishes the Angico-pods, but from Pithecolobium 
guaniferum. P. filicifolium Buntu., from Mexico and the Antilles, 
is used for cabinet-making ; so, too, are P. unguis-cati of the West 
Indies, which supplies one kind of Tendre-d-caillou (so named from 
its hardness) of the Antilles; P. montanum Brntu.,° from the 
Indian Archipelago, whose wood is solid and flexible; and P. 
umbellatum Brntu.,’ whose hard compact wood is cleft with difficulty. 
The stem of P. clypearia is used for making boats in tropical Asia; 
but its resistance to the action of water and its durability are alike 
very limited. The wood of Calliandra tetragona’ is the true Tendre- 
a-caillou of Caraccas. Lysiloma Sabica Bentu., from Cuba, is a fine 
tree which gives the true Sabica wood of the Antilles. 
In Inga the stem is rarely very large. That of ZL. Bourgoni is 
used in Guiana, under the name of Palétuvier de montagne (Mountain 
Mangrove). The Red Sandal-wood (Fr., Bois de Condort) is used as 
timber; and 4. falcata L., from the Moluccas, makes strong shields. 
Arms and tools are also made in Oceania from the wood of Leucena 
glauca. That of ZL. odoratissima Hassx. is highly prized for building, 
1 See Linpt., Veg. Kingd., 553. 6 P, falcifoliwm Hassx. 
2 Sarpanwa, op. cit., 126, n. 33-35. ; Pe 
* Whose wood is, however, also of good quality, 7 Mimosa wmbellata VAHL. Symb. Bot., ii. 
and fairly prized. Its specific gravity is 1-063 103.—Inga umbellata W., op. cit., iv. 1027. 
(SaLDanwA, op. cit., 92). 
4 Marr. ex RosEntH., op. cit., 1064. The 
tree also furnishes gum. 
5 Acacia arborea W., op. cit., iv. 1064.— 9 Benru., in Hook. Journ., iv. 416.—<Acacia 
Mimosa filicifolia Lamx., Dict., i. 12. glauca W. 
8 Benta., in Hook. Journ., ii. 189.— Acacia 
tetragona W. 
