204 POPULAR ECONOMIC BOTANY. 



Brazil-wood. Ccesalpinia crista. (Nat. Orel. Legumi- 

 nosa.) 



This tree is from fifteen to twenty feet in height, with 

 prickly branches and racemes of yellow flowers. The 

 wood is in much thinner pieces, and of a paler colour than 

 the two preceding dye-woods; it yields rose-colour, red, 

 and yellow, according to the mordants used, but the 

 colours are not permanent, and the wood is less used than 

 formerly, owing to the introduction of superior materials. 

 About 800 tons is now the amount of the annual imports. 



Braziletto-wood. Ccesaljoinia Brasiliensis. (Nat. Ord. 

 Leguminosce.) 



The tree which produces this wood is a native of Jamaica, 

 St. Domingo, and probably the South American continent ; 

 it rarely attains any great size, — about twenty feet is its 

 maximum height. The foliage is remarkably handsome, 

 each leaf consisting of from six to nine pairs of pinnse, and 

 each pinna of six to eight pairs of oval, obtuse, oblong, 

 glabrous leaflets, of a very bright, glossy, emerald-green 

 colour, reminding us of the beautiful fronds of some of the 

 ferns of the genus Adiantum. Braziletto is a very useful 

 dye, producing fine red and orange-red colours. The 

 imports amount to about 400 tons per annum. There are 



