ROYAL GARDENS, KEW. 
BULLETIN 
OF 
- MISCELLANEOUS INFORMATION. 
CCCXCIIL—COMINO TREES OF COLOMBIA. 
(Aniba perutilis, Hemsl.) 
In the December number, 1892, of the United d emer 
Reports there appeared an account of the “Comino ” f bi 
supplied by Mr. Luciano Santa Maria, the U.S. "Wie: Gaal at 
Medellin. The tree (or trees, for more than one kind of Comino was 
referred to) produced an excellent timber = itae d purposes as well 
as for the use of cabinet-makers e were said to be both 
valuable for timber as well as very cinerea es s the pie den 
supplied in the Report were not sufficient to identify the trees, appli- 
cation was made to the Foreign Office to obtain a complete set 
of specimens through Her Majesty’s Vice-Consul at Barranquilla. 
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species, the only difference existing in the hardness and in the 
superior grain of the latter rendering it more suitable for cabinet 
purposes. A similar difference it may be mentioned exists in the 
mahogany known as “ baywood,” a soft loose-grained timber growing 
in moist rich soils of Honduras, and the * flowered mahogany :: 
growing in rocky soils in the same country and in San Domingo 
and Cuba. 
The Herbarium specimens of the * Comino" received from Mr. 
Gordon proved to be an undescribed Zawrinea, which was described in 
the Kew vind rt 1894, p. 7, as Aniba perutilis, Hemsl. Evidently, 
however, the n “Comino ” is not restricted to this species of A niba 
* Andes de A Sequi, Medellin, Ke Loup. " "phis has b sal 
large broad leaves, and is distinguishable at a glance from Aniba 
per rutilis. 
Specimens of the timber of “ Comino liso” and “Comino crespo,” 
sent by Mr. Gordon, at the same time as the Herbarium specimens, are 
in the Kew Museum. 
u 82475. 1375.—7/94. Wt. 45. A 
