456 FOX WORTHY. 



HAMAMELIDACE-S1. 



Wood close-grained, pores in radial rows, not very numerous, small and 

 rery small and only a few with wide lumen, uniformly distributed; pith- 

 rays wery fine, numerous. 



Altingia excelsa Xoronlia. Basamala (M.) ; nan-ta-yoh (Burm.). 

 Hritisli India, Burma, Java. 



Wood hard, heavy, resinous, red. cross-grained. Pores small, uniform 

 and uniformly distributed in lines between the pith-rays. Pith-rays fine, 

 equidistant. Planks or indoor work in dry places. 



Gamb. 332; Nord. IX {Liquidambar altingiava Bl.) ; Watt Diet. 1: 201; Van 

 Eed. 124. 



Bucklandia populnea R. Br. 

 British India, Burma, Sumatra, Java. 



Wood reddish-brown, rough, moderately hard and heavy, close-grained, 

 durable Seasonal rings marked by a dark line with fewer pores. Pores 

 small, evenly distributed in radial lines. Pith-rays fine, very numerous, 

 uniform and equidistant. Planking and door and window frames. 



(Jamb. 331, tab, VII, fig. 2; Nord. IX; Van Bed. 125; Watt Diet, 1:545. 



Fothergilla involucrata Falc. ( I'arroiia jari/ucmontiana Dene.) . 

 1 1 imalaya. 



Very bard and very heavy, very close-grained; light pinkish-white; 

 pores extremely small, rather scanty. Walking sticks, tent-pegs, char- 

 poys, and rice-pestles, also for native hows for throwing pellets. 



(.anil.. 331 ; Watt Diet. 1:111. 



ROSACEiE. 



The trees of this family have usually a very fine-grained and uniform 

 wood ; however, the only genera of importance from our present viewpoint, 

 I'ltrinarium and Pygcum, have wood of different structure; these have 

 vessels of medium size to large. All of these rosaceous woods seem to be 

 possessed of a more or less pronounced oxalic acid odor. 



Parinarium. Wood very hard and heavy; vessels large and scattered; 

 wavy thin lines of wood parenchyma usually present; the one exception 

 known to me is Parinarium oblong if oli urn Hook, f., which seems to have 

 wood of the structure of a Pygeum. 



Parinarium griffithianum Bonth. Plate XXIII, tig. 20. Liusin (Phil.)] 

 Merbatu layang (M. ) ; Manoc (Java and Celebes). 



Tenaaserim or Andaman Islands, Malacca, Borneo, Philippines, to Australia. 



Of wide distribution and rather scattered occurrence; a large tree. 

 Wood very hard and heavy, light-red; an exceedingly durable wood, but 



