370 FOX WORTHY. 
Structure. — ritli-rayt; very fine, indistinct in tho hoartwood bocansc 
of the dark color. Vessels moderately large, scattered, in more or loss 
Avavy lines, surrounded by a fringe of wood parenchyma and containing 
whitish deposits. 
Banuyo is the wood most often substituted for acle. It may be distin- 
guished from acle by its more distinct and wider annual rings, its lighter 
color, the absence of whitish deposits in the vessels and by its greater 
r 
softness. 
Bull. For. Bur. Manila (1906) 4, 59; 2d ed. (1907), 63. Aliern, 1. e.. 
16-18. 
AGOHO. 
Casuarina equisetifolia Forst. lain. CASUARINACE/E. 
Agoho (T., 11. Sur.) ; agoso (Pamp., T.) ; aguso (Z.) ; antong (N. 
Vis.) ; arc (II.) ; ayo (V.) ; caro (II.) ; karamutan (Moro) ; malabohoc 
(V.). Foreign names: Aru (Xew^ Guinea); beefwood (Australia, Cey- 
lon, India) ; cassowary tree (India) ; filaro (Santa Lucia) ; horsetail pine 
(Trinidad) ; ironwood; ru (India) ; swamp oak^ she oak, or lx)tany oak 
(Australia) ; M'histling pine (Jamaica), 
From Queensland northward throughout the Eastern Tropics. 
Common along the seacoast from the extreme northern to the extreme 
southern parts of the Archipelago, growing in the whitt; sand of the 
beach, also back along the streams into the mountains up to 1,000 meters 
altitude. 
Other species of Casuarina occur but have not yet become of com- 
mercial imjKtrtance in the Archipelago. Their wood may be distin- 
guished from that of C equisetifoUa by the much larger pith-rays. 
A very hard wood, hea^-y to very heavy. Specific gravity, 0.704 to 
0.942. 
Very durable, but little used because. of the difficulty of working. 
Sapwood very light brown, becoming gradually darker in the formation 
of heartwood, with no sharp line of demarcation Ijctween the two. Grain 
fine and straight. No seasonal rings. 
Uses. — Agoho is an extremely fine firewood. It makes an intensely 
liot fire, too hot for some purposes. The wood is used for general con- 
struction work; posts; boards; charcoal; railroad ties. It is said to 
furnish excellent piling in some of the countries where it is grown; It 
is not known to be used for piling in the Philippines; but its great 
hardness and durability would seem to indicate fitness for such work. 
It should also be tried for paving blocks. 
Structure. — Pith-rays usually very fine and indistinct; but occasional 
compound rays are found. Vessels medium size, scattered or in irregular 
branching or obscurely radial lines. Wood parenchyma in fine, con- 
centric, wavy lines. 
