Jacaranda Wood

Jacaranda Wood, a very hard, heavy, brown wood, also called Rosewood—though not the true Rosewood of commerce—from its faint, agreeable smell of roses. It is brought from South America, and is produced by several trees of the genus Jacaranda, of the natural order Bignoniaceæ. Several species of this genus are called Caroba in Brazil, and are there accounted anti-syphilitic.—Several species of the nearly-allied genus Tecoma also have an extremely hard wood, as T. pentaphylla, a native of the Caribbean Islands. The Brazilian Indians make their bows of the wood of T. toxiphora or Pao d'arco.