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Notes respecting the Isthmus of Panamà.
rather heavy; grows to four or five feet diameter; is much used for canoes and house-building.
Guayavito aseyjan.—White; a beautiful close grain; hard, tough, and heavy; grows to a small size, and is a common wood.
Guava machete.—Like birch; so called from bearing a fruit like, in shape, to a bill-hook, or machette; brownish white, long coarse grain, and middling tough; grown to but is small size, and is not common.
Guavano.—
Gallito.—Soft, long, open grain: whitish yellow, light and porous; grows to the size of one foot six inches diameter, and is common.
Guallavo ormigero.—So called became much infested by ants; it is of a whitish yellow colour, soft, rather tough, of a long open grain, and lightish; grows to about two feet diameter, and is common.
Guanavano.—A whitish yellow, light wood; is not very tough; grows generally in swampy grounds, to the size of two feet diameter, and is scarce.
Guavito.—A very white, soft wood, of an extremely bitter taste, and used as a medicine against the bite of serpents; grows to the size of from four to six inches diameter; is common, but has no other use than as a medicine.
Gorgojo blanco.—A very white, long-grained, soft wood, but close; grows to the size of from one to two feet diameter; rather brittle, bat plentiful.
Guarumo.—
Guava peludo.—Fruit-tree, covered with hair-like substance; yellowish white, long-grained, tough, and soft; grows to two feet diameter, and is common.
Huesito, or little bone.—Hard, close grain, like bone; is much used for any small articles of ornamental cabinet-work, and handles to tools; grows but to a small size, and is not common.
Jagua colorada.—Soft, close-grained, but tough; grows to about one foot six inches diameter; is a dye-wood, and much used by the Indians to carve into spoons, or small articles of ornament.
Jagua.—Whitish brown; long, open grain; soft, but tough; grows to three feet diameter, and is common.
Jobo de lagarto.—A hard, close grain, like beech; the bark like the skin of an alligator; whitish, long-grained, and close; soft; grows to a large size, and is common.
Joboliso.—Close-grained, spongy, flesh-white, soft, brittle, and light; grows to a small size, and is common.
Igeron.—Like ash; one of the most plentiful woods in the country, along the banks of rivers; a soft, whitish wood.
Juasimo.—Hard-grained.
Juasimo prieto.—Yellowish white, or brown; soft, brittle, coarse-grained, and spongy; grows only to a small size, and is common.
Limon.—A fine-grained, shiny, whitish wood; hard and tough, some-
