A name applied in different parts of the world to various trees and their timber: in New South Wales, Acacia melanoxylon; East Indies, Dalbergia latifolia; St. Helena, Melhania melanoxylon; West Australia, Acacia penninervis. (Miller, English Plant-names.)
1631. Speed, Prosp. Fam. Parts World, 43. Cedars, Palmetoes, Black-wood, White-wood.
1693. Phil. Trans., XVII. 621. The … Blackwood of those of Barbados.
1779. Forrest, Voy. N. Guinea, 381. They carry to China great quantities of blackwood, which is worked up there into furniture, &c.
1841. Elphinstone, Hist. India, I. 9. Sissoo (or blackwood trees).
1883. Miss Braddon, Gold. Calf, xi. 144. The pretty carved Indian tea-table—a gem in Bombay blackwood.
