452 FOX.WOBTHY. 



Myristica malabarica Lam. 

 Bril ish India. 



Used for structura] work but is not very durable. 



C!:irnb. 555. 



Myristica philippensis Warb. Plato XXIII, fig. 15. Duguan. 

 Philippines. 



Wood moderately bard and moderately heavy, not durable, badly 

 attacked by the beetles. Lighl or temporary construction. 



Phil. Woods 381. 



Other species of Myristica bave wood of much the same Btructnre and 

 used for the same purposes as tbat bere described. In Borneo, the wood 

 of Myristica is often known as cumpang. Bawang, a fairly good wood 

 of Dutch East Borneo, seems to belong here. Tbis wood is shipped to 

 the New fork market, to be used in the making of cigar boxes. Somp 

 of the vessels are large and filled with a dark-rod gummy deposit. 



Lewis 809. 



monimiacej:. 



Wood soft or moderately hard, usually light and not durable. Pores 

 small, fairly numerous, regular. Pith-rays broad, at irregular distances, 

 with fine ones between. Usually of little importance. 



Tambourissa quadrifida Bonn. 

 Muoarenes, Java. 



Produces the very Light "hois dc tambour.'* 



LAUKACKE. 



The woods of tbis family are exceedingly variable in structure and 

 appearance, as well as in physical and chemical properties. Many rep- 

 resentatives of the family have wood which lias e very pronounced odor, 

 usually agreeable, but markedly unpleasant in some, as e. g. the "stink 

 wood" (Ocotea biUlata) of South Africa. 



The woods of the family can be grouped roughly according to several 



types which are probably best handled under the common names of their 



best known representatives. 



BILLIAN. 



Eusideroxylon zwageri T. ft B. Plate XXIII, fig. 18. Billian (M.) ; icajoe 



besi (M.); Borneo ironwood; ulin (oelin) (E. Borneo) ; eijserhout (Dutch) 

 Borneo. Sumatra, Banka, possibly also in the Malay Peninsula. 



Wood very hard and very heavy. Extremely durable. Yellowish to 



dark-brown, becoming almost black with age. Pith-rays line; vessels 

 medium-size to large, fringed with wood parenchyma which is continued 

 tangentially into line, usually discontinuous lines. Large vessels divided 

 longitudinally into several compartments and filled with a yellowish. 

 glistening crystalline substance, which also seems to fill many of the wood 



