Citations:hyawa

English citations of hyawa

• 1837, Robert Hermann Schomburgk, Report of the Third Expedition Into the Interior of Guayana‎^[1], page 18:

  GUM HYAWA, or RESIN of CONIMA, from the “Hyawa” or Incense tree (Icica heptaphylla, Aubl.). Contributed by WILLIAM FREssen, Georgetown. This gum is very fragrant and is supposed to be suitable for pastilles, &c.

  (gum and tree)
• 1897, Elisée Reclus, The Earth and Its Inhabitants‎^[2], volume 18, page 30:

  Like Arabia, Guiana has also its incense tree, the hyawa (Icica heptaphylla), which is burnt in the churches on the coastlands.

  {gum and tree)
• 1914, “American Architect and Architecture”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)‎^[3], volume 106, page 240:

  It is also called incense tree, and the Indians refer to it as hyawa. Its botanical name is Icaca heptaphylla and is very closely allied to the white cedar (Icaca altissima)

  (tree)
• 1852, Royal Commission [Great Exhibition], Reports by the Juries on the Subjects in the Thirty Classes Into which the Exhibition was Divided‎^[4] (Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations, London, 1851):

  Hyawa (Icica heptaphylla, Aubl.) [101, 101a] / Shows a diameter of 5 inches. In bark. A light, though rather fine close-grained white wood; from the River Berbice. / This wood is obtained from the Icica heptaphylla, Aubl., or Incense tree, yielding the gum hyawa.

  (tree, gum, wood)