4C><) FOXWORTHY. 



Koompassia malaccensis Maingay. Kumpas. 

 Malay Peninsula. 



Reddish, very hard and moderately heavy, coarse-grained, not durable. 

 Charcoal. 



Newt. 5; Ridl. 137; E.-Pr. 3 3 : 1 r,C. 



Koompassia parviflora Prain. Tualang or sialang (M.). 



Malay Peninsula. 



Ridl. 188. 



Pterocarpus. Mood hard to very hard, moderately heavy to very heavy; 

 yellowish-brown, red, or purplish-red. Pores variable, small to large, 

 scanty, in patches of wood parenchyma joined by more or less fine, wavy, 

 concentric lines of the same tissue. Pith-rays very fine, uniform, equi- 

 distant. In color, the different species differ; P. santalinus has its wood 

 of a very dark claret-red color; P. indicus and P. macrorarpus of a dark 

 brick-red color; P. cUUbergioides has a bright-red wood, often streaked 

 with black; while the wood of P. marsupium is of a brown color with a 

 yellowish tinge. All the species are valuable as furniture and ornamental 

 woods and all contain a certain amount of a substance which gives them 

 an aromatic odor. 



Pterocarpus dalbergioides Roxb. "Andaman redwood" or Andaman padauk. 

 Andaman Island*. 



Wood moderately hard' and heavy; sapwood gray, small; heartwood 

 bright-red, streaked with brown and black. Pores scanty, moderate- 

 sized lo large, Idled with resin, surrounded with pale rings and joined 

 by narrow, wavy, concentric lines of wood parenchyma. Pith-rays \< iv 

 fine, very numerous, uniform and equidistant. Padauk is used in Europe 

 and America for furniture, parquet-floors, railway carriages, door-frames, 

 balustrades, etc. Most successfully used in the building of Pullman cars 

 in America. One of the most important export furniture woods of the 

 whole region. 



Garni). 287-269; Van Bed. 97. 



Pterocarpus echinatus Pars, Nana (Phil.). 

 Philippine! and Celebes. 



Much like the preceding. 

 Phil. Woods 390. 



Pterocarpus hypostictus Miq. Tarpandi. 



Sumatra. 



Masts. 



Van Eed. 97. 



