Guarea

Guarea, a genus of tropical American trees of the natural order Meliaceae, of some of which the bark is used as an emetic and purgative. G. grandifolia is called Musk-wood in some of the islands of the West Indies, the bark smelling so strongly of musk that it may be used as a perfume. Although the tree attains timber size and has been employed for making rum hogsheads when other material was scarce, the wood contains a bitter resinous substance, the flavour and smell of which is communicated to the spirits to their detriment.