The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Redwood

REDWOOD, the name of various sorts of wood, as an Indian dye wood, the produce of Pterocarpus santalinus; the wood of Laplacea haematoxylon, the redwood of Jamaica; that of Pterocarpus dalbergioides, or Andaman wood; that of Colubrina ferruginosa, the redwood of the Bahamas; that of Soymida febrifuga, of which the bark is used in India for fevers. In the United States, Sequoia sempervirens of the Pacific Coast. See Redwood of California.