 | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Daniel Oliver - Botany, Economic - 1871 - 102 pages
...Western Asia. Some of them are fine trees, as that affording No. 85. LIGNUM VIT^E (Guaiacum qfficinale, L.). Native of the West Indies, growing very slowly,...trunk, or by heating the wood broken up into fragments. Rue Order (Rutacecei). Chiefly trees or shrubs, widely scattered over 'the warmer temperate regions... | |
 | 1883 - 294 pages
...Indians mould into balls and also use it in rheumatism. NO. 87. LIGNUM VIT^E (Guaiacum officinale,Ij.'}. Native of the West Indies, growing very slowly, and...extreme hardness and toughness, which adapt it for pulleys, pestles, mortars, rulers, etc. It contains a green resin, which is obtained either from incisions... | |
 | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew - Botanical gardens - 1883 - 160 pages
...Indians mould into balls and also use it in rheumatism. f No. 87. LIGNUM VIT^E (Guaiacum officinale,Ij.). Native of the West Indies, growing very slowly, and attaining a great fee. The wood is remarkable for the singular brownish-green jrf the heart-wood, and its extreme hardness... | |
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Native of the West Indies, growing very slowly, and attaining a great size. The wood is remarkable for the singular brownish-green of the heart-wood, and its extreme hardness and toughness, which adapt it for pestles, mortars, rulers, etc. It contains... 