ornament. It is a s/aall tree with low dense or own and panicles 
of handsome sweet-scented purplish flowers which somewhat sug¬ 
gest lilacs. The fruit is a translucent 4-seeded drupe. This 
tree is commonly planted in the southern United states. The 
wood is soft and weak and the branches easily broken. The 
fruit is generally reputed poisonous to human beings. The 
bar'-., is reported to be used in some regions for stupefying 
fish. About the gone the tree is called “Jacinto*; elsewhere 
in Central America and in hexico it is called “paxaxso,* and 
w lila„ * 
2. GEDHELA L. Spanish cedar. 
Leaflets glabrous or nearly so. . . 1. C, mexicana Roern. 
Leaflets densely pub-scent beneath. . 2, C, fiacilio Veil. 
The plants are large or medium-siaed trees. The de¬ 
ciduous even-pinnate leaves have several pairs of large, ob¬ 
long, acute or acuminate leaflets. The small greenish 
flowers are parsleled. The oval capsules open to the base by 
5 valves. 
C. mexicana has been planted about the Zone as a shade 
tree and probably occurs wild, since it ia known from nearby- 
regions. C, finoflip in common> at least on the Pacific 
slope. The trees are known everywhere in Central America by 
the name *oedro„* C,. f isailis is called *ced.ro macho* in 
in Salvador 
Spanish cedar is a reddish wood, soft, easy to work, 
