This tree is to bo found chiefly in Cuba, Jamaica, and Honduras, growing with a stem of 70 or 80 feet in height, and with a diameter of 3 to 5 feet. It is known to cabinet-makers as the Havannah or West Indian Cedar, and is exported in logs sometimes of 3 to 4 feet square. The wood is of a red colour, resembling the pencil cedar (Juniperus); it is soft, porous, and brittle, and used chiefly for the inside of furniture. The cigar-boxes from Havannah are made of it. It affords most durable planks and shingles. Another variety of the same species is chiefly obtained from Andros Island, but used throughout the Bahama Islands for frames, posts, and girders in housebuilding. The wood is soft, fine, close-grained, and rather light, possessing the pink hue and emitting the odour of the common pencil cedar.

When fully grown the tree is from 16 to 20 feet long, and 1 foot in diameter, and is generally cut into 10 to 16 feet lengths, and from 5 to 8 inches square.

Another kind, the wood of which has a curled and shaded appearance, obtained by its growth on a rocky soil, is used for picture-frames and cabinet work.

* ' Report on the Paris Exhibition.'

The weight of a cubic foot of the Cedrela odorata of Jamaica and Cuba is about 36 lbs. The crushing strength per square inch in the direction of the fibre is about 6600 lbs., and the transverse strength of a specimen 1 foot long between the supports, and 1 inch square, loaded in the middle, is about 399 lbs.