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The exports from Campeche in 1908 amounted to 5,043,827 kilos, 

 £11,000, and in 1909, 4,446,716 kilos, value £9900 (Cons. Rep. Ann. 

 No. 4418, 1910, p. 5). 



The imports into Great Britain, chiefly from Hayti, St. Domingo, 

 Mexico, British W. Indies, and British Honduras, for the past five 

 years (1905-1909), have been 15,254 tons, value £71,508" (1905) ; 

 17,991 tons, value £91,941 (1906) ; 23,105 tons, value £112,744 (1907) ; 

 16,952 tons, value £73,472 (1908) and 4985 tons, value £23,886 

 (J909) (Trade of the United Kingdom, i. 1910, p. 107). 



The price per ton varies from about £2 10s. to £8 for " Logwood," 

 and £2 10s. to £4 for " Logwood Roots." 



May be propagated from seed — which it is advisable to select from 

 trees known to produce satisfactory heart-wood — raised in nursery 

 beds or bamboo pots, and planted out in permanent places 15 to 20 feet 

 apart, when about 6-10 months old. 



In Jamaica the tree has become naturalized ; it grows spontaneously 

 in abundance on the plains and only requires thinning (Murrill, 

 Journ. New York Bot. Gdn. x. 1909, p. 36). 



The wood for use as a dve is stated to be cut after the trees are 

 10 years old (Bentley & Trimen, Med. PL No. 86). 



The plant makes a substantial hedge. It is well established at 

 Oloke Meji, and in 1906 a large quantity of plants were being raised 

 from seeds grown there (Thompson, Col. Rep. Misc. No. 51, 1908, 

 p. 47). A tree at Old Calabar was bearing seeds in 1897, being then 

 about 5 years old. 



Ref. — " Campechy or Logwood," Calvert in Journ. Soc. Arts, xix. 



1871, pp. 815-816. "Logwood," Jarmain, I.e. xxiv. 1876, pp. 



985-987. " Lignum Haematoxyli," in Pharmacographia, Fliickiger 



& Han bury, pp. 213-216. " Note on the Pharmacy of Logwood," 



Siebold, in Year Book of Pharmacy, 1887, pp. 548-555. " Note on 



the application of Dyewoods in Chemical Analysis," Siebold, I.e. 



pp. 555-556. " Bois de Campeche," in Les Drogues Simples, 



Planchon & Collin, ii. pp. 485-487 (Octave Doin, Paris, 1896). 



"Logwood," in Bull. Bot. Dept, Jamaica, iii. 1896, pp. 179-183. 



" How to gather Logwood Seed," Sharp, I.e. iv. 1897, p. 152. 



" Sowing Logwood Seed," MacMahon, in Queensland Agric. 



Journ. ii. 1898, pp. 37-38. " Bastard Logwood," in Bull. Bot. Dept. 



Jamaica, viii. 1901, pp. 1-2.— — " Bastard Logwood, Earle, in Journ. 

 New York Bot. Garden, iv. 1903, pp. 3-4 ; reprint in Bull. Dept. 

 Agric. Jamaica, i. 1903, pp. 30-31 ; West Indian Bull. iv. 1903, 



p. 3. "Logwood Root Rot," I.e. p. 2. " Blauholz," in Die 



Rohstoffe des Pflanzenreiches, Wiesner, ii. pp. 930-932. " Chemical 



Notes on Bastard Logwood," Gruenberg & Gies, in Bull. Torrey Bot. 

 Club, xxxi. 1904, pp. 367-377 ; reprint in Bull. Dept. Agric. Jamaica, 

 ii. 1904, pp. 241-250 ; West Indian Bull. v. 1904, pp. 249-258 ; 

 Abstract in Nature, lxxi. 1905, p. 222 ; Journ. Soc. Arts, liii. 190"), 



pp. 193-194 ; Pharm. Journ. [4] xx. 1905, p. 37. " Logwood," in 



Timbers of Commerce, Stone, pp. 68-69. " Haematoxylon — 



Logwood " in the National Standard Dispensatory, Hare, Caspari and 



Rusby, p. 755. "Bastard Logwood from Jamaica," Drabble & 



Nierenstein, in Journ. Inst. Comm. Research in the Tropics, 

 Liverpool Univ. ii. April, 1907, pp. 38-40; Reprint in Bull. Dept. 

 Agric. Jamaica, v. 1907, pp. 185-187. 



