The PiiiLipn^K Journal of Science, C. Botany. 
Vol. VI, No. 3, July, 1911. 
BEDARU AND BILLIAN: TWO IMPORTANT BORNEO 
TIMBER TREES. 
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By Fred W. Foxworthy. 
(From the Botanical Section of the Biological Laboratory, Bureau of Science, 
Manilay P. I.) 
BEDARU. 
Urandra corniculata (Becc.) comb. nov. 
Platea corniculata Becc. in Malesia 1 (1877) 117. 
This plant is variously known as txMaru, hedaro, pedaro, daru and daroo. It 
produces a wood which is very highly esteemed^ and which is undoubtedly one 
of the best in Borneo. The Avood is best known in Sarawak; but it is also to 
be found on the Singapore market and is said to come from Sumatra. 
Flowering material, furnislied by Mr. J. C. Moulton, Curator of the Sarawak 
Museum, was sent to Dr. Boccari for comparison. Dr. Beccari writes that this 
material represents the species described by him under the name of Platea corni- 
culata, from rather incomplete material in the botanic gardens at Buitenzorg. 
It is apparent to me, from examining the material sent by Mr. Moulton, that 
the plant is a Vrandra. It is therefore necessary to make the new combination 
Vrandra corniculata (Becc.) Foxw. This plant is represented in the herbarium 
of the Bureau of Science bv good flowering material collected by Mr. J. C. Moulton 
near Kuching in -M-Ay 1909 and by Foxworthy W^ >" bud, collected near Lundu, 
Sarawak, ilay 1908. -^ ' 
BILLIAN. 
Eusideroxylon zwageri Teijsm. & Binn. in Natur. Tijdschr. Nederl. Indie 
25 (1802) 202, pi.; Benth & ITook. f. Gen. Plant. 3^ (18S0) 155; Miquel, 
Sumatra, seine rdanzenwelt (1SG2) 93; Van Eeden, Houtsoorten van Neder- 
landsche Oost-Indie, Bui. Kol. Mus. te Haarlem (1900) 205; Beccan, Ne He 
foreste di Borneo 581; Bargagli-Petrucci, in Malpighia (1902) 18; F™^^^ 
Jn Philip. Journ. f?ci. 4 (1009) Bot. 452; Ridley in Agric. Bull. S. S. k F. M- b. 
1 (1901) 247; Blits, De Anatomische Bouw der Oost-Indische Ijzerhoutsoorten, 
Sul. Kol. Mus. te Haarlem 19: 27. 
Bihama hornccnsis Meissn. in DC. Prodr. 16^ (18G4) 96. 
Ensidero^ilon homeense Villur Koviss. App- (1880) 179. ViUar reduced 
Salgada lauriflora, Blanco, Fl. Filip. ed. 2 (1845) 221 to this. He was mistaken 
in considering that species an Eusideroxylon, .It is really a Cryptocarya, as 
^lerrill has shown.^' 
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' Indo-Malavan Woods, This Journal 4 (1909) Bot. 492, 
^Bur. Govt. Lab. Publ. (Philip.) 27 (1905) 73; Philip. Journ. Sci. 4 (1909) 
Bot. 254, Cryptocarya laurifiora (Blanco) Merr. 
