[Native name.] The brown ebony of British Guiana.
1840. Schomburgh, Descr. Brit. Guiana, 33. Wamara … is hard and cross-grained, consequently not apt to split.
1862. List Contrib. fr. Br. Guiana to Lond. Exhib., in Veness, El Dorado (1866), App. 136. Wamara, or Brown Ebony. Used for ship-building and furniture.
1866. Treas. Bot.
