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timber near Lake Victoria Nyanza, Khdya senegaUnsis as only 

 a small or medium-sized tree, Pseudocedrela exoelsa Dawe & 

 Sprague, from the West Ankole Porest, as a valuable timber-tree 

 reaching 100 ft. in height, and P. 4UUs Dawe & Sprague, from 

 Unyoro, reaching an equal height, from 3 — 5 ft. in diam., and 

 yielding a valuable light Mahogany. 



African Mahogany is very strong and termite-proof, and the 

 demand during the last few years has more than kept pace with 

 the supply. The Liverpool import of 9 million feet in 1894 grew to 

 13 million in 1897, 18 million in 1900, 21 milHon in 1903, and 

 20 milHon in 1906. The logs are mostly hewn square when im- 

 ported, and a very large proportion of them, especially of those that 

 a.re figured, are re-exported to America. It seems to have been 

 first imported about 1833, when fifty-eight logs sold in Liverpool 

 at 5d. — 6d. a foot ; but as a real business the trade dates from 

 1886, when some 94,000 ft. from Assinee sold at 4d. — 6d. Of 

 the 20 million cubic feet which reached Liverpool in 1906, over 

 6 million came from Lagos, 4 million from Axim, nearly 2| million 

 from Benin, over IJ million from Assinee, IJ miUion from Grand 

 Bassam and a million from the Gaboon. In 1903 a log from 

 Assinee fetched the record price of 12s. 6d. per foot. 



Mahogany, Australian. See Cedar, Pencil, and Jarrah, 



Mahogany, Bastard {Eucalyptus botryoides Sm. : Order Myrtdcece), 

 Known also as " Swamp " oi '' Gippsland Mahogany," " Blue 

 Gum," ''Bastard Jarrah," "Woolly Butt," and "Bangalay." 

 South-Eastern Australia. Height 40 — 100 or 160 ft. ; diam. 2 — 4 or 

 S ft. S.G. 891. W 55-59. Light dull red to warm rich brown, 

 heavy, hard, tough, close, even and straight in grain, easy to woik, 

 but somewhat subject to gum- veins and shakes, durable. Valuable 

 for ship- and waggon-building, yielding compass-timber suitable 

 for ships' knees. The name is also appHed to Jarrah. 



Mahogany, Bay {Oercocdrpus ledifolius JSTutt. : Order Hosdcece). 

 California. Dark-coloured, hard, and heavy. 



Mahogany, Borneo or Penagah, is probably Galophyllum ino- 

 p^Uum. See Poon. 



Mahogany, East India {Soymida febrifuga A. Juss. : Order Melid- 

 ^ece). " Bastard Cedar, Indian," or " Coromandel Redwood." 

 Hind, " R/ohuna." Telug. " Somida." Central and Southern 

 India. A large tree, yielding logs 17 — 20 ft. long and 1 — 1|- ft. diam. 

 S.G. 378. W 54*8. Dark blood-red, heavier than water when 

 fresh, very hard, close and straie^ht-sfrained, easily worked, durable 

 mxde;gro4d, temite-proof , but splitting on exposure, and becoming 

 very brittle when seasoned. Used in boat-building, well- work, 

 plough-shares, tables, and carved work in temples. 



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