IXDOMALAYAX WOODS. 



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Goniothalamus tapis Miq. Topis (M.). 

 Malay Peninsula and Archipelago. 



Moderately hard and heavy; said to be used for house building in Java. 



Van Eed. 8; Ridl. 10. 



Miliusa velutina Hook. f. & Th. Dom-sal (Hind.); Thabutkyi (Burin.). 

 East Indies. 



Light-brown, tolerably hard wood; easily worked and durable; used 

 for carts, agricultural implements, spear shafts and oars. 

 Gamb. 21; Watt Diet. 5:545. 



Mitrephora edwardsii Pierre. 

 Tropical Asia. 



Yellowish, hard and very pliable. Used for balances, and small articles 

 of furniture. 



Pierre 35. 



Polyalthia cerasioides Benth. & Hook. f. 



Britisli India and Burma. 



Greenish-brown, moderately hard and heavy, wood for house-finishing, 

 masts and spars. 



Gamb. 17; Watt Diet. 6*:313. 



Polyalthia longifolia (Lam.) Benth. & Hook. £. Indian fir; mast tree. 

 India and Ceylon; cultivated in all parts of India. 



Produces white to yellowish, soli, very readily bent wood, for barrels, 

 drum cylinders, boxes, lead pencils and matches. 

 Watt Diet, 6 l :314; Gnmb. 18. 



Polyalthia suberosa (DC.) Benth. & Hook. f. 

 Britisli India and Ceylon, Philippines. 



A hard, heavy, tough and durable wood, used like the preceding. 



Watt Diet. 1. c. 314; Gamb. 17. 



Polyalthia subcordata Bl. 

 Java and Borneo. 



Produces, presumably, the very peculiar cabinet wood ^Baloen adock." 



Van Eed. 8; Janssonius 1:134. 



Xylopia parvifolia Hook. f. et Thorns. 

 Ceylon. 



Produces wood for tea-chests. 

 Lewis 308; Gamb. 20. 



MYKISTICACE^E. 



Wood usually light, somewhat soft, reddish-brown, with regular prom- 

 inent rings of hard wood without pores, looking like seasonal rings. 

 Pores in short radial strings, moderate-sized, rather scanty, arranged en 

 echelon. Pith-rays fine, numerous, irregular. 



