Pernambuco or Brazil wood, to which the empire of Brazil owes its name, comes from the caesalpinia echinat and the caesalpinia Braziliensis.
"The Former Philippines thru Foreign Eyes"
Tomás de Comyn Fedor Jagor Rudolf Ludwig Carl Virchow Charles Wilkes
Good European houses surmount all the eminences, surrounded by trees of Acacia and caesalpinia.
"Himalayan Journals V2."
J. D. Hooker
Brazil wood: The central part or heart of a large tree which grows in Brazil, called the caesalpinia echinata.
"The American Woman's Home"
Catherine E. Beecher and Harriet Beecher Stowe