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Dichrostachys cinerea W. & A. Poeng (Java). 

 India. 



A red, extraordinarily hard wood; valued for walking sticks and tent 

 pegs. 



Watt Diet. 3:109; Van Eed. 117; K. & V. 1:283-285. 



Gliricidia sepium (Jacq.) Steud. Madre cacao; cacahuate. 



Commonly cultivated and escaped in the Philippines ; introduced from tropical 

 America. 



Produces an excellent wood, much like acle. Vessels containing yellow 

 deposits. Used in house building and for agricultural implements. 

 This wood furnishes a much more glistening surface when cut than does 

 acle. 



Intsia bijuga (Colebr.) 0. Ktze. [Ajzclia bijuga A. Gray). Plate XXIV, 

 fig. 26. Ipilj ypil; epel; miraboo laut; merbau apil; ifi-lele (Samoa); ifll 

 (Guam); go-mioc (Annam). 



Distributed throughout the eastern tropics from Madagascar to the Sandwich 

 Islands. A littoral tree. 



Heavy and hard (sp. gr. 0.758 to 0.909). Sapwood whitish or light- 

 yellow; heartwQod dark-reddish-brown. Sent to Europe as furniture 

 wood. Also used as a dyewood. 



Wiesner 2:928; Gard. 59; Phil. Woods 384; Gamb. 280; Van Eed. 101; Watt 

 Diet. 1:128; E.-Pr. 3 3 :140; K. &. V. 2:31-35; Pierre 388; Becc. 577; Bargagli- 

 Petrucci 32-34, plate VI. 



Intsia bakeri Prain (Afzelia palembanica Bak.). Merbau; mirabow; mi- 

 raboo; "ironwood." 



A very large tree of Sumatra, Borneo, the Malay Peninsula, Riouw, and Banka, 

 growing inland. 



This and the preceding, together with other species of the genus, 

 furnish one of the best woods of the whole region. It is very much 

 in demand for furniture, heavy structural work, bridges, corner posts 

 of houses, telephone and electric light posts, and, in fact, anywhere that 

 an insect- and decay-resisting wood is needed. The wood is distinguished 

 by the copious sulphur-yellow deposits in its vessels. There is little, 

 if anything, to choose between ipil and mirabow. The ipil, at least when 

 fresh, is a shade the darker in color, otherwise the two are indistinguish- 

 able. 



Van Eed. 102; Bidl. 140; Newton 4. 



Ormosia calavensis Blanco. Bahay; ala-saga. 



Philippines. 



Moderately hard and heavy. Sapwood grayish-white; heartwood red. 

 A very good wood, which is used locally as a substitute for tindalo 

 (Pahudia rhomboidea (Blanco) Prain). 



Other species of the genus occur in India and Malaya, but they are of only 

 local importance. 



