LAURACEZ. 461 
cupboards made therefrom are usually protected by their perfume 
against the attacks of insects. These woods are numerous in the 
Antilles, Brazil, and especially in Guiana. But in this last country 
many kinds are as yet only known by their vulgar names, without 
its being exactly known to what botanical species they really 
belong. Such are the yellow and brown Zaoub-woods, several 
Sassafras and Anise-woods, and the male and female Rose-woods. 
These are certainly from Laurads, but their genera are still unde- 
termined. Licaria guianensis AvuBL.' is one of these Rose-woods. 
The marsh yellow-cedar-wood (dois de Cédre jaune de marais) of 
Guiana is probably a Cryptocarya. One kind of Sassafras of Cay- 
enne is Acrodiclidium chrysophyllum, and the grey cedar (Cédre gris) 
of the same country is Ocotea splendens.2 Nectandra ecaltata‘ is the - 
Timber Sweet-wood of Jamaica. The wood of Dicypellium caryo- 
plyllatum’ is handsome and scented; it has wrongly been supposed 
to produce the true Rosewood. Misanteca capitata,’ the Palo 
misanteco of the Mexicans, yields a good wood. The wood of 
Persea indica’ is named Vinhatico in Madeira and the Canary 
Islands. The Siridalli* of Guiana seems to be an Ocotea. The wood 
is intolerably fetid in many species, such as Nectandra myriantha® of 
Brazil, Ocotea bullata” of the Cape, and O. fetens,” the Til of the Cana- 
ries. This species is cultivated in our orangeries, where its persistent 
shining green leaves produce a fine effect,resembling the classic Laurel, 
the tree of Apollo, of temperate Europe, sung and depicted by poets 
and artists innumerable. The polymorphous leaves of theSassafras are 
curiously noted in our gardens; and in our conservatories are found 
species of Apollonias and Cinnamomum, whose flowers are insignificant, 
but whose foliage is always handsome and more or less aromatic. 
1See p. 447, note 11. Gurs., op. ‘cit., 397. 
The Galibis call it Licari kassali. It is also 
sold in Paris under the names of Bois jaune de 
Cayenne, Citron de Cayenne, and Copahu. 
species is cultivated and flowers in our botanical 
gardens. 
8 Linvu., Veg. Kingd., 536. 
°Mrissy., Prodr., 163, n. 58.—Marrt., 77. 
2 Mutssn., Prodr., 87, n. 14. 
3 Mrtssn., Prodr., 129, n. 83. 
4 GrisEs., Fl. Brit. W. Ind,, 281.—MEIssy., 
Prodr., 165, n. 65.—Persea exaltata SPRENG., 
— Oreodaphne exaltata Nurs. The White 
sweetwood of the Antilles is N. Willdenowtana 
Nezs (Syst., 290, 321—Mutssy., Prodr., n. 
64.—Laurus sanguinea Sw. (part.). 
5 See p. 462, notes 5, 6. 
§ See p. 469, notes 4-8. 
7 Spruna., Syst., ii. 268.—Mutssy., Prodr., 
52, n. 33.— Laurus indica L., Spec., 529, This 
Bras., Laurac,, 315.—Canella Seedorente of the 
natives (RIEDEL). 
0 E. Mry.,in Pl. Droge.—Oreodaphne bullata, 
Mrissy., Prodr., 118, n. 31.—Stinkwood of the 
English colonists. 
Laurus fotens Art., Hort. Kew., ii. 39.— 
Persea fotens SPRENG., Syst., ii, 268.—Oreo- 
daphne fetens Nurs, Syst., 449. — MEtssn., 
Prodr., n. 82. It is also called Vignatico, 
Arbol santo and Madeira Laurel at Madeira 
(see p. 434, fig. 250). x 
