XXIV.] 



MORA. 



275 



Table CXII. 

 Vertical Experiments on cubes of — 



Table CXIII. 



Vertical Experiments. — Four pieces, Nos. 26, 27, 28, and 29, each 2x2 inches, 

 and respectively 



1234 Inches in length. 

 Crushed with 27-25 1 27-2875 | 25-875 | 25-862 Tons. 



MORA {Mora excelsa)* 



the product of Demerara and the island of Trinidad, is 

 a Leguminous tree of straight growth, yielding timber 

 in the log of i8 to 35 feet in length, and 12 to 20 inches 

 square. 



The -wood is of a chestnut-brown colour, hard, heavy, 

 tough, strong, and generally straight in the grain, but 

 has occasionally a twist or waviness in the fibre, which 



Corrected to Dimorphandra Mora (Beuth) in the Kew Catalogue. 



T 2 



