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With the mahogany is usually found the cedar ( Cedrela 
odorata), from which cigar-boxes are made, and which is 
also used (as is mahogany) for single-log canoas, dories, 
and cayucos. 
As an article of export, logwood ranks next to mahog¬ 
any, of which the best is found in the region of the 
Usumacinta. It is not a large tree, fifteen to twenty 
feet high, and much easier to handle than the mahogany. 
The dark heartwood alone is used. 
The Santa Maria ( Calophyllum calaba ) is much used in 
house-building. Rosewood ( Dalbergia ) grows to a large 
size and is most beautifully veined, as is also the exquisite 
Palo de mulatto ( Spondias lutea) ; but both sink in water, 
and are difficult to transport. I have used rosewood logs 
twenty inches thick to support a cistern, as they are 
almost imperishable, and not attacked by insects. Sapo- 
dilla ( Achras sapota ) is nearly as heavy. When freshly 
hewn, its color is curiously red, beefy in tone; but it soon 
loses this on exposure, and shrinks considerably. It splits 
easily, but is so tough that splinters are used as nails in 
soft woods. Salmwood ( Jacaranda , sp.) is light colored, 
and much used for door and window frames. Ziricote 
is beautifully veined. 
Two species of pine are common, the Pinus cubensis, 
or ocote, whence is obtained the fat-pine which serves 
as candle for a great majority of the people of Central 
America, and the long-leaved pine (P. macrophylla ) of 
the mountains. I have placed in the Appendix a list of 
other woods valuable in many ways, but never exported, 
and known only by their local names. 
The two products that in former years ranked high 
among the Guatemalan exports, indigo and cochineal, 
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