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There appears to be no record of any attempt to value this product 

 in Nigeria, although some plants were sent from Kew to Lagos in 

 1887 which 2-J years later were stated to be fine spreading trees 

 (Kew Bull. 1890, p. 162). 



Divi-divi like all tanning materials is not acceptable to tanners 

 unless quantity as well as quality can be assured. 



The quality of the timber is a good recommendation for the culture 

 and may prove sufficiently valuable when the trees get old, to com- 

 pensate for any failure that may arise in growing the tree as a tanning 

 material, the low price of which would leave apparently little margin 

 for profit. 



Ref. — "The Divi-Divi (Cesalpinia coriaria) " Mukharji, in Indian 



Forester, ix. 1883, pp. 99-103. " Caesalpinia coriaria: The 



American Sumach or Divi-Divi " in Diet. Econ. Prod. India, Watt, ii. 



1889, pp. 6-9. "The Divi-Divi Tree," Cowley, in Queensland 



Agric. Journ. i. 1897, pp. 139-140. " Caesalpinia coriaria, Divi- 

 Divi " : A Note on the Cultivation of the Plant in India and the value 

 of the pods as a tanning material, in Agric. Ledger, No. 10, 1899, pp. 



1-19. " Dividivi in Deutsch-Ostafrika," Warburg, in Der Tropen- 



pflanzer, 1901, pp. 85-89. "Dividivi," in Die Rohstoffe des 



Pflanzenreiches,Wiesner, ii. pp. 840-844 ( Wilhelm Engelmann, Leipzig, 



1903). " Pods of Caesalpinia coriaria, Divi-Divi," from India, in 



Bull. Imp. Inst. 1904, pp. 92-93, with analysis. " The Culture of 



Divi-Divi," Versluys in Agric. News, Barbados, 1907, p. 159 ; reprint 

 in Queensland Agric. Journ. xix. 1907, pp. 160-1 61. 



Caesalpinia pulcherrima, Sw. ; Fl. Trop. Afr. II. p. 262. 



III. — Zanoni, Hist. t. 141 {Poinciana flore pulcherrima) ; Rheede, 

 Hort. Mai. vi. t. 1 {Poinciana pulcherrima) ; Gaertner, Fruct. Sem. 

 Pi. ii. t. 150 (P. pulcherrima) ; Bot. Mag. t. 995 (P. pulcherrima) ; 

 Lam. Encycl. t. 333 (P. pulcherrima) ; Desc. Ant. i. t. 6 (P. pulcher- 

 rima) ; Rchb. Mag. Bot. t. 93 {P. pulcherrima) ; Velloso, Fl. Flum. iv. 

 t. 90 (P. pulcherrima) ; Geel, Sert. Bot. iv. (P. pulcherrima) ; Mag. 

 Bot. and Gard. ii. t. 23 (P. pulcherrima) ; Blanco, Fl. Filip. t. 112 

 P. pulcherrima) ; Rchb. Exot. ii. t. 130 (P. pulcherrima) ; Paxton, 

 Mag. iii. p. 3 (P. pulcherrima) ; Knowles & Westcott, Fl. Cab. and 

 Mag. Exot. Bot. ii. t. 89 (P. pulcherrima) ; Maund, Bot. Anist. iv. t. 

 151 ; Spach, Suites (Hist. Nat. des Vegetaux) t. 2, f. 2 (P. pulcher- 

 rima) ; Ralph, Ic. Carp. t. 19, f . 8 (P. pulche?*rima). 



Vernac. names. — Malosa (Pango Andongo, Welwitsch) ; Macata 

 (French Guiana, Heckel) ; [Caballero (Guam.) ; Flor de Cameron, 

 Chacalxochitl (Mexico) ; Gallito (Panama) Safford'] ; Clavellina 

 (Porto Rico, Cook & Collins) ; Poincillade (Antilles, Dcscourtilez).— 

 Paradise Flower ; Peacock Flower ; Peacock's Crest ; Barbados Pride ; 

 Barbados Flower Fence. 



The plant is used medicinally, all parts of it being described as a 

 powerful emmenagogue, and in odour and uses resembling Savin 

 (Bot. Mag. t. 995) ; the leaves and flowers in decoction for fevers in 

 the West Indies ; the pods and leaves as a substitute for senna in the 

 East Indies (Mus. Kew), in Guam (Safford, PI. Guam, p. 358), in 

 French Guiana (Heckel, Ann. Inst. Col. Marseille, iv. 1897, p. 124), 

 and in Angola (Hiern, Cat. Welw. Afr. PL i. p. 193). A decoction of 

 the root is used in Angola for the cure of intermittent fever 

 (Hiem, I.e.). 



