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[Class IV.
WOODS OF BRITISH GUIANA— continued.
42. Warracoeri, or whitecedar (Idea altissima ,Aubl.) [103,103a, 1056,103c.]
43. Yaruri, or paddle-wood(Aspidosperma excelsum,Benth.) [97, 97a, 976.J
44. Yarri-yarri, or Lance-wood (Duguetia quit a-rensis , Lindl.) [113,113a.]
Shows a diameter of 7 inches. In bark. An open-grained, soft, light, white wood; fromlliver Dcmerara, and from River Mahaica, east sea cost, Demerara.
This wood is obtained from Idea altissima , Aubl. It is light, easily worked, and veryaromatic. Sir Robert Schomburgk states that one of his canoes, 42 feet long and 5£feet wide, was made from a tree of this species. It is used for oars and paddles, andfor boards for inside work of houses. During the American Mar it was used for stavesof sugar hogsheads.
In bark. A very hard, close-grained, light Mood, of eccentric growth; from the RiverDemerara.
This wood is obtained from Aspidosperma excelsum , Benth. The whole tree, from 5 to 6feet in diameter, and to the first branches, about 30 feet in height, has the appearanceof being fluted, or as if it consisted of a l'aciculus of numerous slender trees. Thefluted projections of the trunk are used by the Indians for the construction of theirpaddles. The wood is light, elastic, and very strong, and preferred to any other forcotton gin-rollers.
Specimen affording no clue to diameter. A light, yet fine, close-grained, and tolerablyhard wood; from the River Demerara.
This tree is stated by Schomburgk , to be Duguetia quitarensis, Lindl., a slender tree foundin tolerable abundance in the interior of the colony. The wood possesses much tough-ness and elasticity, and is used for gig-shafts, and Mhen small, for whip-handies andfishing-rods. The Indians make their arrow-points of it. It grows from 4 to 6 inchesdiameter at the loMcr end, and from 15 to 20 feet long.
A table made of the ornamental woods of Guiana , and containing 82 different woods, is also exhibited; the speci-mens being of course small, and covered with varnish, it is not possible to identify more than a very few’ of them; thefollowing is a list of them, and contains a large number not mentioned in the preceding list of larger specimens:—
63. Saka.
1. Armiosi.
2. Assepoca.
3. Akaraki.
4. Arawica.
5. Acourib root.
6. Brown silverballi.
7. Bannia.
8. Bartaballi.
9. Bangro, or ebony.
10. Bully tree.
11. Crab wood.
12. Contaballi.
13. Caraharri.
14. Ceffre.
15. Canuballi.
16. Cabacalli.
17. Curbacalli.
18. Calabash.
19. Cabbage tree.
20. Canella.
21. Ducalaballi.
22. Determa.
23. Ducalli.
24. Gomarrow.
23. Guava.
26. Greenheart.
27. lluwnssi.
28. Hymakusi.
29. Ilooboballi.
30. Hyawaballi.
31. Iliaballi.
32. Ilyahya.
33. Hackia.
34. Itikiribouraballi.
35. Krctti, or bastard
silverballi.
36. Kurara.
37. Kaknralli.
38. lvartaballi.
39. Kamacusack.
40. Keria.
41. Kamakasa.
42. Kucahara.
43. Kimaasamasa.
44. Kurahara.
45. Kuracurara.
46. Kopassa.
47. Lana.
48. Locust.
49. Logwood.
50. Letter wood.
51. Light silverballi.
52. Masaranuni.
53. Murwaana.
51. Mora.
55. Purpleheart.
56. Pritti.
57. Red cedar.
58. Rosewood.
59. Sand Mora.
60. Saouri.
61. Simaruba.
62. Suradanni.
64. Siridani.
65. Silberdani.
66. Turiballi.
67. Tatabo.
68. Tabiecushi.
69. Towraneroo.
70. White cedar.
71. "Waiki.
72. AYamara.
73. AVadaduri.
74. M ild orange.
75. AYashiba.
76. AYara couri.
77. AYallaba.
78. AYaremia,
79. Yellow silverballi.
80. Youraballi.
81. Yerara.
82. Yarri yarri.
WOODS OF BAHAMA.
A fine series of the woods of Bahama is included in the collection of raw produce from that colony. Thespecimens contributed by Messrs. Baines (p. 976) were deemed worthy of Honourable Mention.
1. Cedar - - -
2. Cedar - -
3. Horseflesh mahogany
4. Dogwood
5. Stopper wood
6. Lignum
7. Bahama Satin Mood -
Is used principally in house-building, for door and window frames, piazza-posts, sills,girders, &c. It grows on several of the Bahama islands, but is found in greatestabundance on Andros Island ; and its size, when full-grown, is from 16 to 20 feet inlength, and 1 foot in diameter; it is generally cut 10 to 16 feet in length, and from 5 to8 inches square: the branches are used for boats’ timbers. This is one of the mostdurable of the Bahamian M’ood. A soft, fine, close-grained, rather light n-ood, pos-sessing the pink hue, and emitting the fragrant odour of the common pencil cedar.
This M’ood is used principally for picture-frames and other ornamented articles of cabinet-work ; there is no difference between it and No. 1, except its curled and shadedappearance, which is said to be obtained by its growth in a very rocky soil.
Is principally used in house-building, the branches and crooked trees for ships’ timbers;it is a very durable M’ood, and grows on several of the Bahama islands, but is found oflarge size, and in greater quantities at Andros Island, where it grows to about 20 feet inlength and 2 feet in diameter ; it is, hoMever, seldom brought out of the M-oods of thatsize, from the want of proper means of conveyance. A hard, fine-grained wood, heavy,and exhibiting numerous open cells.
The principal uses made of this wood are for felloes of wheels and ships’ timbers ; fromits toughness and other properties, it is better adapted to the former purpose than anyother of the Bahamian M-oods. The tree does not attain any considerable size, and isgenerally crooked. A rather soft, open-grained, light, but evidently very tough M’ood.
Used principally for piles to wharfs, and for M-heel*spokes; it is a very strong anddurable M’ood; it grows from 12 to 16 feet long, and from 6 to 8 inches in diameter;it is found on all the Bahamian islands. An exceedingly hard, fine, close-grained,very heavy M ood.
This M*ood groM’s on several of the Bahama islands, and is generally exported to Europe and America , M'here it is used for sheaves to blocks, &c. The principal use made ofit in the Bahamas is for hinges and fastenings for houses situated by the sea-shore, orin the vicinity of salt-ponds on the out-islands, M’here, from the quick corrosion ofiron, hinges, &c., of that metal are seldom used.
This M’ood, commonly called yellow M’ood, groMs abundantly on Andros Island, andothers of the Bahamian group: it groM*s to a large size. A hard, fine, close-grainedM’ood, showing on its polished surface a beautifully rippled pattern.