58 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 
as is that of Xylia dolabriformis; in the East Indies. Oars are 
made from the branches of Dichrostachys cinerea? in the same 
country. Many species of Acacia proper, including the gum species, 
have a valuable wood, more or less hard and coloured. The light 
red wood of A. arabica, is the Diababul wood* of authors. A. 
Caventa,* catechuoides Roxs. and horrida W. are valued for building 
purposes and for fuel; the ashes of the first are used in soap- 
boiling in South America, and the last is used at the Cape in 
fumigations for cases of cramp, epilepsy, &. The variegated 
yellow wood of 4. heterophylla is used for boat-building. That of 
A. Coa A. Gray, the Koa of the Sandwich Islands, isas much prized 
as that of 4. denuifoliaW., Kalkona Roxs., floribunda W., and dodonai- 
fota Desr., for carpentry and cabinet work. The lovely blackish 
wood of 4. melanoxylon’ (Black-wood or Light-wood), and the charm- 
ing sweet-scented Violet-wood or Myall-wood, from A. homalophylla,’ are 
among the most remarkable products furnished by Australian Legu- 
minose to the cabinet-maker. A. scleroxylon Tuss. is another Zendre- 
a-caillou of the Antilles. In the section A/dizzia, several species 
furnish valuable wood, such as 4. odoratissima,’ Lebbek, Julibrissin,? 
and stipulata.” A. montana," from Java, is the Caju Ticcos major, or 
Large Mouse-wood (Fr., Grand Bois de souris), very pretty, and easy to 
polish, and used to make elegant boxes. But it’ has a peculiar 
smell, which attracts mice; it is, however, sometimes used as a 
condiment in cooking. 
1 See page 26, note 1. 
2 W. & ARN., Prodr., i. 271.—Desmanthus 
cinereus W., op. cit., iv. 1048.—Mimosa cinerea 
L., Spee., 1505. 
3 GUIB., op. cit., ili. 326. 
4 Hook. & Ann., ap. Beech. Voy. Bot., 21. 
—RosENTH., op. cit., 1060, (Caven, Espino, Flor 
de aroma of the Chilians.) 
5 R. Br. in Ait. Hort. Kew., v. 462.—H. 
By., in Adansonia, iv. 114, n. 27 (Black wood 
of the Australians). 
6 A. Cunn., ex Bentu., in Hook. Journ., i. 
365, n. 148.—H. Bn., in Adansonia, iv. 109, n. 
19. 
7 W., op. cit., iv. 1063.—A. similis Zout.— 
Mimosa odoratissima L., Suppl., 437.—Albizzia 
micrantha Borv.—.A. odoratissima BENTH., loc. 
cit. 
8 A. speciosa W., ex W.& ARN., Prodr., i. 
275.—Mimosa Sirissa Roxs., Fl. Ind, ii. 554.— 
M. Lebbek Buanc., Fl. d. Filipp., 133.—Albizzia 
Lebbek Benvu., in Hook. Journ. iii. 87 (Cotton 
varay of the Malabars, Bois noir or Black wood 
of Pondicherry). 
9 W., op. cit., iv. 1065,—Albizzia Julibrissin 
Durazz., loe. cit. 
0 DC., Prodr., ii. 469, n. 209.—Mimosa 
stipulacea Roxs., Cat. Hort. Cale., 40.—Al- 
bizzia stipulata Borv.—Inga purpurascens Bu. 
—TI. umbraculiformis Juneau. (Amlocko of the 
Bengalese, Sengon, Djindjing of the Javanese). 
1 Junen., Tijd. Nat. Gesch., x. 246.—A, 
vuleanica Kortu., in Flora (1827), 705.—Inga 
montana JUNGH., in Top. Nat. Reis., 288.— 
Albizzia montana Benru., in Plant. Jungh., 
267. 
