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INFORMATION LEAFLET 
FOREIGN V/OODS 
Forest Products Laboratory,* Forest Service 
U. 3. Department of Agriculture 
1955 
BANAK 
Vircla spp. 
'. . isticaceae , Nutmeg Family) 
:ISE GERRY, Forest Products Technologist 
Division cf Timber Growth and Utilization Relations 
[3anak wood, because of its characteristics and availability, b 
aroused considerable interest in the United States as a source of useful 
material. It comes from a tropical genus known as Virola , which has a 
considerable number cf species. The woods, as far as present knowledge 
goes, arc considered to be much alike (4).- 
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The following names are applied to the trees and woods of the genua 
Virola in the various countries as indicated: 
Acajou - Trinidad 
Arbre a suif - Guianas 
Baboen - Guianas 
Baboenhout - Guianas 
Babun-hudu - Guianas 
Banak - U. S. Trade Brit. Hond. 
Bastard Banak - Brit. Hond. 
Bicuiba - Brazil 
Anakin - Trinidad 
Arvore de sebo - Brazil 
Baboenhoedoe - Guianas 
Baboentri - Guianas 
Bali - Guianas 
Banak cedar - Brit. Hond. 
uiba - Brazil 
Bicuiba assu - 3razil 
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"Maintained at Madison, Wis., in cooperation with the University of 
Wisconsi , 
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"Underlined numbers in parenthesis refer to the list of numbered references 
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