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States. It has also been recommended in cholera and dysentery, 
and has been considered as efficacious as kino or catechu. Many 
species of Cesalpinia also furnish dyestuffs, usually red. The 
following species are mentioned among others :—Cesalpinia echinata,! 
supposed to produce the Brazil-wood, Pernambuco, St. Martha, and 
Antilles-wood ; C. Sappan,? the Sappan-wood or bukkum-wood of 
India; C. crista,? also sometimes called Brazil-wood or Brésillot; C. 
brasiliensis,‘ the Brasilletto or Red-wood of Jamaica; and C. tinctoria® 
of Peru and Colombia, used like the preceding species for dyeing 
red and black: C. dahamensis’ and Sepiaria,’ though less in request, 
possess the same properties. As tinctorial plants are also used 
Cassia brasiliana® and auriculata, the Hymeneas which AuLLEMAo has 
named Peltogyne Guarabi and macrolobium,’ several Bauhinias,” Eperua 
falcata Avsu.," Vouapa Simiria AuBu.,” Melanoxylon Brauna Scuott,”* 
&e. 
Nearly all the arborescent Cesalpiniee afford useful and often 
valuable woods, a mine of wealth for tropical countries. The struc- 
ture of these woods should be studied by observers on the spot. 
The botanical origin of many of the commercial species or kinds is 
but little known. Thus, the true origin of the American Angelica 
and Vouacapou woods, so-called, was long unknown. The former 
belongs to Dicorynia paraensis Bunvu.,” a fine tree from Guiana and 
South Brazil, very solid for building purposes, and resisting the 
action of damp; it is hence used for making bridges, balustrades, 
and railway sleepers.» The latter wood does not belong to an 
Andira, as was thought, but to a member of the series Sclero- 
1 Lamx., Dict., i. 461.—DC., Prodr., ii. 483, 
9 Ex RosENtH., op. cit., 1041. 
n. 19.—@uilandina echinata Sprena., Syst., ii. 
10 Especially B. variegata (RoxB., ex LINDL. 
327 (Ibirapitanga ManceR.). 
21., Spec., 544.—Roxs., Pl. Coromand., i. 
t.16.—DC., Prodr., u. 6.—GUuIB., op. cit., iii. 
317. 
3 L., Spec., 544.—DC., Prodr., n. 11. 
41L., Spec., 544 (part.).—DC., Prodr., n. 5.— 
C. bahamensis LaMK. ? 
5 Cav., Prel., ex DC., Cat. Hort. Monsp., 
84.— Coulteria tinctoria H. B. K., Nov. Gen. et 
Spec., vi. 329, t. 569.—C. Gay, Fl. Chil, ii. 
222.—Poinciana Tara R. & Pav., ex DC. 
Prodr., ii. 481, n. 38. — Tara tinctoria Mot, 
Chil., 164.—Poinciana spinosa FEUILL. (Tara- 
tara of the Chilians). 
6 Lamx., Dict., i. 461.—DC., Prodr., n. 10. 
7 Roxs., Fl. Ind., ii. 360. 
8 See p. 151, note 3. 
Veg. Kingd., 550). 
N Guian., i. 369, t. 142.—Dimorpha falcata 
Su., in Rees Cyclop.,n, 8. Its bark is bitter, 
and is used as an emetic by the Arrawack Indians. 
2 Guian., i. 26, t. 8.—V. violacea LaMK., 
Lil., t. 420.— Macrolobium Simira Guxt., Syst., 
i. 93.—L. spherocarpum W., Spec., i. 186. 
18 Ap. Sprene., Syst., Cur. Post., 406.— 
RosentH., op. cit., 1032. — Perittium ferru- 
gineum Voa., in Linnea, xi. 408 (Maria preta 
of the Brazilians), 
4 In Hook. Journ., ii, 82. 
15 A wood of the highest value for naval 
purposes, being proof against insects and ship- 
worms, It supplies pieces of timber of 15 or 20 
metres long, Three varieties are known—black, 
red, and white (strength=215 kilos.). : 
