Object Status:
Unlocated
Accession Date:
June 1773
Primary Source Reference:
"Liste des fruits, noyaux, graines ou semances des plantes de St. Domingue en ma collection, premier voyage," June 1773, Du Simitière Scraps, Library Company of Philadelphia, No. 55, p. 1
Notes:
Species identified in Alain Henri Liogier, Diccionario botánico de nombres vulgares de La Española (Santo Domingo, 1974), p. 170
Its wood is used as a raw material, such as from October 1886 onwards for truncheons of the London Metropolitan Police.
Specimen Type:
Dead/preserved
Du Simitière's Common Name:
Bois delance franc
Current Common Name:
Black lancewood
Current Scientific Name
Oxandra lanceolata
