ARGENTINE TIMBERS 
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Pao d'Oleo {Copai/era guianensis), used for furniture and 
sleepers, as well as in general construction and in the 
extraction of copaiba oil. Also for yards and masts of 
ships. Red in colour. 
Weight 56 Ihs. per cubic foot. 
In Parana to the south there are extensive forests of 
Araucaria {A. hrasiliensis), called Brazilian pine, somewhat 
akin to the Chili Pine {A. imhricata) or Monkey Puzzle of 
English lawns. It produces a valuable timber, fruit, and 
turpentine, but is not yet a commercial commodity. 
The difiiculty in describing the timbers of Brazil is that 
the same wood is known by different names in different 
districts ; as an engineer from the East says of their 
timber, " the spelling is a matter of taste," and another 
English engineer in Uruguay speaks of the Brazihan hard- 
woods " whose names can neither be spelt nor pro- 
nounced " ; the same timber, too, goes under different 
names in the Argentine, Paraguay, and Bolivia from that 
by which it is known in Brazil. The botanical names are 
also very uncertain. 
Argentine Timbers. 
Quebracho — Lapaclio — Guayacan — Curupay— Urunday— Palo Blanco 
— Pacai a — Quiiia Quina — Horco Cevil — Horco Molle — Cohuclio — 
Tatane— Tarco — Roble del Pais— Tipa Colorado — Algarrobo — 
Mistol — Cedro — Nogal — Lanza — Naudubay — Palo Cruz — 
Strength of Argentine Timber — Parnguayan and Bolivian 
Timber. 
One of the characteristic features of the trees of 
Argentina is their small stature and large diameter ; not 
many of them grow to a greater height than 30 ft., and 
the majority do not reach this, so one of the drawbacks 
to the many excellent timbers which this part of the 
