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TIMBER 
Icaranda is of more uniform quality than ipe, of a tawny 
colour with black specks and dashes, an excellent wood 
where strong wearing surface is required, one of the best 
in the country for the teeth of mortise wheels. 
Weight 62 lbs. per cubic foot. 
Angico {Acacia colubrina) is a fine, dense, smooth wood, 
found in parts of Brazil, and used for turnery, cabinet- 
making and ornamental work, also for sleepers. The logs 
are roughly squared up to 10 inches a side. It is often 
confused with sabicu and various kinds of rosewood. The 
colour is a reddish or dark brown streaked with black, and 
the timber contains medical properties. The bark is good for 
tanning. 
Jacaranda is the Brazilian name for various species of 
Dalbergia and allied trees. It is the continental name for 
rosewood, and from these jacaranda trees and similar 
species comes the Brazilian rosewood of English commerce. 
Amongst them are Jacaranda Cabiuna (Dalbergia nigra), 
used for furniture and turned articles as well as for 
timbering in Brazilian mines and sleepers. It is hard 
and durable, stands wet as well as any wood, of a colour 
reddish brown and black in streaks and patches. 
Weight about 63 lbs. per cubic foot. 
Jacaranda Preto {Machceriiim incorrvptibili) of Bahia is a 
first-class black furniture wood, and is also used for general 
construction and sleepers. 
Jacaranda Rozo {M. legale), a brown wood which makes 
excellent sleepers. 
In the Argentine the jacaranda is a small tree which 
produces logs 15 ft. long by 9 inches square. " Palisander 
wood," used chiefly for pianos, is probably the produce of 
these trees. 
