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ROYAL GARDENS, KEW. 
BULLETIN 
OF 
MISCELLANEOUS INFORMATION, 
No. 30.] JUNE. [1889. 
XCVIII..—JAMAICA COG WOOD. 
( Zizyphus Chloroxylon, Oliv.) 
With Plate, 
The cogwood in Jamaica has long been known as one of the most 
valuable timber trees in the Island. In the early days of sugar and 
w 
e 
owing to the valuable character of the wood, that trees of large size 
became sy scarce, and at the present time such trees are 
only to be found in remote districts beyond the reach “of roads and 
railways. Our ek at present is not so much connected with the 
value of cogwood as a timber tree but "with its bollo determination. 
Although known for so lo ong a period it is remarkable that until now 
the flowers and fruit of Jamaica cogwood had not been received in this 
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