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plentifully, especially in Berbice, where it may be 
found 5 ft. in diameter ; its average height is 
about ioo ft. and it can be squared to 42 inches. 
When windmills were used in the colony, bullet- 
tree was considered to be the best wood for the arms of 
a windmill. The gum known as balata is produced by 
this tree. The wood is dark red, closed grained and 
solid, and, when free of sap, most durable. During the 
time that the fruit is ripe many of the trees are cut 
down. The fruit resembles the well-known sapodilla in 
taste, and is about the size of a large English cherry ; 
from the seeds, oil can be extracted. The bark of the 
bullet-tree is used medicinally by the Indians in the form 
of a clyster for a disease called kaina-kuhu, or ■ buck- 
sickness', and occasionally as an emetic. 
Fukadie grows on sandy soil. Its average height is 
about 80 feet, and it can be squared to 16 inches. It is 
used for house-framing, and it is a durable wood for 
indoor work. This tree is very plentiful. 
KARAHURA grows generally throughout the colony in 
dry places. It is one of the lightest of colonial woods, 
and is only fit for partition boards and other indoor 
work of a similar nature. It is used by the Indians for 
making canoes : its average height is 80 feet, and it can 
be squared to 30 inches. 
HoOBOODlE or Wild Cashew, (Anarcardium rhino- 
carpus) grows in low situations near water, and averages 
about 80 feet in height ; the wood is light and not very 
durable, and is only used for boards. The fruit is similar 
in shape to that of the ordinary cashew, [Anacardium 
occidental?, Lin.) and as well as the bark is of an 
