378 I'oxwouTiiY. 
Seasonal rings present or absent. Diffuse pnrmis. Woorl making a 
lather when riihhed with water or saliva. 
Uses, — High grade construction; shipbuihling; keels of ships; stern- 
posts; wharves; piling; posts; doors; rafters; railroad ties. 
Struchire. — Pith-rays very minute. Vessels small, in irregular, 
oblique radial rows, with yellowish deposits. Wood parenchyma in 
numerous minute tangential lines. 
Differs from hansalagufn in being softer and of lighter weight and 
color. 
- Bull. For. Eur. Manila (1906), 4, fiO; 2d ed. (1007), 4, 63. Ahern, 
1. c., 3G-37. 
BITANHOL. 
See Palo Maria. 
BOLOXGETA. 
Diospyros pilosanthera Blanco. Fam. EBENACE/E. 
Amara, amaga (Y.) ; alintatao (T.) ; apopuyot (Cag.) ; ata-ata (V.) ; 
batotinao (Cag.); barlis, bolonguita (T.) ; dalondong (V.); calohndin, 
caloyanang, galariga (T.) ; tamil (Yacan) ; malatalang (T.) ; tapihie 
(Moro). 
Philippines. 
Yery heavy and very hard. 
>Sapwood light pink; heartwood black or streaked. Grain close and 
straight. 
Uses. — Fine furniture; inside finish; gun carriages; railroad ties; also, 
reported as being used for piling. 
8truct}ire. — Pith-rays very minute. Vessels very small and scattered 
in small, radial lines. Wood parenchyma in numerous, very fine tan- 
gential lines. In the black heart nearly all details of structure arc 
obscured ])y the black substance that fills all the elements. 
For discussion of this wood in connection with camagon and ebony, 
see ebony. 
CALAlVrAySANAY. 
Nauclea np. Fam. RUBlACEyC. 
Flacourtia inermis Uoxb. Fam. FLACOURTIAC 
Malavan region. 
Terminalia calamansanai Rolfe. Fam. COMBRETACE>C 
{Gimbernatia calamanmnai Blanco. Terminalia hialata Vid.) 
Philippines. 
Yidal thouglit it a species of Diospyros, Fam. Ebknac.ie. 
The Terminalia species has been considered the source of this wood, 
but I think it more likely that it is a NaucJoa. The only examples of 
ealamansanay which we have as herbarium material are a Nauclea from 
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