Khaya

Khaya, a genus of trees of the natural order Cedrelaceæ. The Kassou-Khaye of Senegal (K. Senegalensis), one of the most abundant forest-trees in that part of Africa, attains a height of eighty or one hundred feet, and is much valued for its timber, called cailcedra, or African mahogany, which is reddish coloured, very hard, durable, and of beautiful grain. In the marshy coast regions of Gambia the bark is administered in the cure of fever, and Caventon has extracted an alkaloid which has been suggested as a cheap substitute for Quinia, a product of the bark of Hortia brasiliensis.