454 FOXWORTHY. 



wardrobes, etc It is so much in demand that it is \rery much imitated. 

 Soft and absorbent woods are u*v<\ in place of camphorwood very often, 

 the wood being treated with a solution of camphor or other oil, which gives 

 it, temporarily, an odor resembling thai of the camphorwood. (See 

 p. 426.) 



FlQckiger, Pharmakognoue, 111. Aull. (1891) 151; Van Eed. 201; UoltzaprTel 



78. 



A number of other trees in the Lauracm furnish highly aromatic wood 

 which sometimes resembles camphorwood in odor. Some of the Borneo 

 and Philippine species of Cinnamomum and possibly other genera, have 

 wood which is so strongly aromatic that it could probably he very well 

 employed for the same kinds of work as the true camphorwood. The 

 strongest, scented one of these is a Sarawak wood known as kappla (Becc. 

 581), of which I have only sterile material and which I am unable to put 

 in a genus. Another very strongly scented wood of the same region is 

 known as medang ladaj it is a species of Cinnamomum, and occurs locally 

 in some quantity. 



MEDANG. 



This is a name applied to a large Dumber of different species which 

 show some resemblance in the structure of their wood. One of the best 

 known of these is Litsea perrottetii F.-Yill. (Plate XXI II, fig. 1!)) of the 

 Philippines, which is known in Manila as baticulin. The pith-rays of the 

 different viedangs are fine to moderately broad; \ressela line; seasonal 

 rings not distinct. Fine-grained; soft or moderately hard woods; white 

 or grayish in color; usually wvy easily worked and not very durable. 

 They are used for light of temporary construction and are pretty widely 

 known. Fifteen or twenty or more kinds of medang are found, but they 

 are not clearly marked off one from another, because the trees producing 

 them are usually more or less scattered. By cutting a number of 

 different kinds of medang it is possible to gel timber in some quantity in 

 many localities, while, if only one particular kind of medang were used, 

 it would not he possible to gel sufficient of the wood for many purpose.-. 

 This probably accounts for the composite nature of the wood Supply 

 known as medang. Sometimes dark-colored woods are found under this 



name, but the lighter-colored ones are much the more common. 



Representatives of the following genera of this part of the world may 

 occasionally he found under the name of medang: Machilus, Phoebe, 

 Notaphoebe, Actinodaphne, Neolitsea, Litsea, Dehaaaia, Cryptocarya, 

 Endiandra and TAndera. 



Occasionally dark-yellowish woods, species of BeiUcl niu'edia . are found 

 which seem to be really intermediate between billion and medang. Beil- 

 schmledia cawocan Yid. (Plate XXIII, llg. L6) of (he Philippines, 

 known as malocadios, is a very good wood of this class. Some species of 

 Cryptocarya probably belong also in this class. 



