BARWOOD— BEECH 137 



Barwood, generally considered identical with Camwood, but 

 possibly Pterocdrpus santalinoides L'Herit. or P. angolensis DC. 

 (Order Leguminosce). West Africa. S.G. 620. W 38*75. A dye- 

 wood. 



Bass wood {Tilia americdna L. : Order Tilidcece), " American 

 Linden " or '' Lime," " Bee tree." Germ. " Amerikanische Linde," 

 French '' Tilleul d'Amerique," Span. " Tilio Americano." Eastern 

 United States and Canada. Height 80 — 100 ft. ; diam. 3 — 4 ft. 

 S.G. 452. W 26— 45-5. E 589 kilos. Ash percentage -55. Relative 

 fuel value -45. Coeffieiency of elasticity 84,010 kilos. Resistance 

 to longitudinal pressure 348 kilos. Resistance to indentation 

 63 kilos. White to light brown, or tinged with red, light, soft, 

 tough, close-grained, easily worked, but not strong, shrinking 

 considerably in drying ; but durable. Extensively used for cheap 

 furniture, toys, carriage-panels, chair-seats, carpentry, turnery, 

 cooperage, and to some extent for paper-pulp and charcoal. It is 

 sometimes worked up by a rotary knife-cutting veneer machine so 

 as to make a thin board, as long as the log and as much as 100 ft. 

 broad, for three-ply wood. 



Basswood, White (Tilia heterophylla Vent.). Middle and Southern 

 States. Not distinguished commercially from the preceding. 



Bay-wood. See Mahogany. 



Bead-tree {Melia composita Willd. = ir. Azedardch L. : Order 

 Melidcem), " Persian Lilac," " Pride of India." In Austraha 

 " White Cedar " or '' Cape Lilac." Hind. " Mm." French " Lilas 

 des Indes," " Sykomore," " Laurier grec." Port. " Margosa." 

 Tamil " Vem - pu." Syria, India, China, Australia. Height 

 40 — 50 ft. ; diam. 1 — 2 ft. W 30 — 38. Sapwood yellowish-white ; 

 heart yellowish to reddish-brown, handsomely marked, especially 

 vertically, soft and rather loose-textured, easily worked, but taking 

 a good polish and becoming hard and durable, but warping and 

 splitting. It is used in* India for furniture, being known inx the south 

 as " Bastard Cedar." [See Margosa.] 



Bean-tree, or Bean, Black. See Chestnut, Moreton-Bay. 



Bean, Red [Dysoxylum Muelleri). See Cedar, Pencil. 



Beati (Cassia sidmea Lamk. : Order Leguminosce). Sinhalese 

 '' Wa." Southern India, Ceylon, Burma. 1| ft. diam. W 62. 

 Heart nearly black, often beautifully mottled longitudinally, very 

 hard. Used in Burma for mallets and walking-sticks, and in 

 Ceylon for fuel for railway-engines. Exported to Bombay and 

 thence to England as '' Bombay Black-wood " or " Rosewood." 



Beech, Common (Fdgus sylvdtica L. : Order Cupuliferm). Germ. 

 ''Gemeiner" or "Roth Buche," Dutch ''Rood beuke," Danish 



