Cetba ( Geiba pentsndra ) 
Tbo ceiba is bettor Jen own ac the silk-cotton tree. It 
is by far the largest tree in the West Indies and produces largo 
bojes that are sometimes 40 feet to the first branch and sometimes 
raora them eight feet through ebovo the root swelling. That the 
ceiba is one of the most generally distributed tree in the West 
Indies ^arul~yet -i-s--.net utilised cnywhere within its range of • 
■ gr . QW . lh .,- la pocsibly ..proof enough that its wood ia. not.likely to be 
i*ti:0'S4d: in the United Ctotes for manj years Lc come. How¬ 
ever,-the wood bears s more or less close resemblance to that of 
white plne^ wirlofo has attracted the attention of a good many travel 
ers in tropical America. The- ceiba tree is scattered throughout 
the tract, but the average yield would probably not oresod 000 ft. 
per acre. 
Crepe { Csvanallirla ep.) 
The crepo is the most conspicuous tree in the forest, os 
pecicily on the upper slopes and and ridges of the low hills. It 
Ip very abundant and the trunks are for'the most part exceedingly 
massive and cylindrical to the top usually overtopping all other 
trees in the forest. is is ’fell known the wood is exceedingly 
soft e»& vwry perishable. It .has no user and' could not 
b e pl aced on the ra&tett except at a prohibited coot duo to the 
• ■g r e a t - de ag or of staining sad becoming worm eaten.-; while the yield 
in board feet per acre for crepo would be very great no attempt 
has been made to estimate tho quantity, ffir the rcanon that the 
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Cocoholo ( .Dalborgia svf 
Cocobolo is one of tho commercial woods of Panama, for it 
is one of tho rosewoods • bh a ft-oa fr o s ^ I’So’Imorican markets. The tree 
is pretty generally distributed over the uplands and especially 
