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summit of the tree. dem the S of the sun they become hard and 
dry, thus being easily packed, The lower branches remain soft, and 
are kept for local consumption. - 
Tulip-tree Wood for Cigar boxes.—The following note appears in 
Garden and Forest, for January 29th, 1896 (p. 50) :— 
* Formerly Cuban and domestic cigar boxes were all made from the 
wood of the Spanish Cedar, a species of West Indian Cedrela, but now 
the demand for boxes to hold e cheap domestic cigars is so great in this 
country that other. woods, stained to resemble Spanish Cedar, are 
largely used for the purpose. e wood of the Tulip Poplar, Liris- 
dendron tulipifera, is considered the best of the North American woods 
r this purpose, although chestnut, butternut, elm, basswood, and 
cottonwood have been tried. Cigar boxes are also now very largely 
ade in the United States with veneers of Spanish Cedar cut in 
thicknesses of from eighty to one hundred add twenty sheets to one inch, 
and mounted on cheap American woods like cottonwood o r basswood." 
A new Brazil wood.—Cesalpinia bicolor, C. H. Wright, is a 
ns 
diameter. The branches are scantily armed with thorns, the 
leaves are bipinnate with eight to 12 alternate ovate-emarginate leaflets ; 
flowers red- purple with a flat broad pod, 2 M long and about an 
inch wide, containing five seeds. specimens in the Kew Herbarium 
are from Chachapoyas as in Pert collected by Lobb from Vitor, collected 
d 
first specimens from the latter were received in 1869. They were then 
recognised as probably new; but it was only in pem. 1895 
adequate material was received for a description (see Kew Bulletin 
1896, p. 22). Accompanying this. Mr. White foFsarded the following 
“A Cesalpinia ree a very fine Brazil wood, said by Prof. Oliver 
to be undescribed. e dye from this wood was ascertained by the 
late Daniel Hanbury to be superior to that yielded by the best 
Pernambuco Brazil wood." 
In the Guide to Museum I. p. 55, it is stated that * Peach Wood, 
and Lima Wood (dye w. dpi are usually attributed to 
echinata. The vom rees of these woods are, however, not 
satisfactorily known. Authentic specimens réf leaves and flowers would 
be valuable." It is possible therefore Spm in Cesalpinia bicolor we have 
a source of one of the above w t yet recognised. Mr, White has 
en as to forward specimens "of the wood for the Museums of 
Economic Botany at Kew, and on the arrival of these, their value for 
dye purposes will then be "tested. 
