INDO-MALAYAN WOODS. 



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HEKNANDIACEiE. 



A very small family of scattered trees. Wood usually of poor quality, 



soft and light. 



Gyrocarpus jacquini Koxb. 

 Tropics of both hemispheres. 



Very soft and very light. Pores large and medium-sized, scanty, often 

 subdivided, uniformly distributed. Pith-rays very short, moderately 

 broad, the distance between them greater than the transverse diameter of 

 the pores. Used for boxes, toys and small boats. 



Gamb. 350. 



Hernandia peltata Meissn. Palatu (Cing.). 

 Seacoasts of tropics everywhere. 



Very soft and very light, gray. Pores moderate-sized to large; col- 

 lected in oblong or linear more or less concentric dark scattered patches 

 of loose tissue. Pith-rays very fine, numerous, with occasional broader 

 ones. Cellular tissue soft. 



Gamb. 575. 



CAPPARIDACE^. 



Wood white or yellowish-white, moderately hard or hard. The main 

 character useful in determination is that of pores in radial lines, not 

 between each pair of pith-rays, hut at intervals, pairs without pores coming 

 between those that contain pores. 



Capparis grandis L. f. 



British India, Burma and Ceylon. 



A white, moderately hard, durable wood. 



Gamb. 35; Niird. X; Watt Diet. 2:130. 



Crataeva religiosa Foist. 

 Widespread in the tropics. 



Wood yellowish-white, when old turning yellowish-brown, moderately 

 hard, even-grained. Used for drums, models, writing boards, combs and 

 in turnery. Not durable and liable to the attacks of beetles. 



Gamb. 32; Nord. X. 



PITTOSPORACE2E. 



Wood white, moderately hard, even-grained. Seasonal rings faintly 

 marked. Pores small, rather scanty and irregularly distributed. Pith- 

 rays fine, prominent, not numerous, pale. 



Pittosporum ferrugineum Ait. Giramong (AT.). 

 Malay Peninsula and Archipelago to Australia. 



Light to moderately Heavy and soft or moderately hard. Wood while. 

 fine-grained, pores very small in clusters, fairly numerous, pith-rays fine 

 but rather distinct, rings fairly distinct. 



Ridl. 12; Janssonius 1:226. 



