INDO-MALAYAN WOODS. 407 



Pterocarpus indicus Willd. Plate XXIV, fig. 28. Nana (Pliil.) ; angsana 

 (M.). 



Southern India to the Malay Archipelago and southern China, Philippines. 



Heartwood of a splendid red; moderately hard and with slightly 

 aromatic odor, durable, not attacked by termites, easily worked and 

 polished. Furniture and wagon building. 



Watt Diet. e^SW; E.-Pr. 3 3 :341; Ridl. 135; Culbertson in Pot. Gaz. 21 

 (1894) 498; Gamb. 257; Van Eed. 98; Gard. 57; Phil. Woods 390; K. & V. 

 2:83-88; Stone 75, pi. V, fig. J/1; Stevenson 247-249; Becc. 57(3. 



Pterocarpus macrocarpus Kurz. Padauk; padu; padoo; "inland padauk." 

 India and Burma. 



Produces a very hard and very heavy wood. The wood of roots and 

 stem-knots resembles dark mahogany, and is made up into small boxes. 



Culbertson Bot. Gaz. 21 (1894) 498; Gamb. 259. 



Pterocarpus marsupium lloxb. Biji (Hind.); gammala (Cing.). 



India and Ceylon. 



The brown- and dark-striped, very hard, durable and easily polished 

 wood serves for window frames, posts, furniture, agricultural implements, 

 wagon and boat building, and railroad ties. The heartwood is full of 

 gum resin and stains yellow when damp. 



Watt Diet. 6 1 : 357; NSrd. X; Gamb. 261, tab. VI, fig. 2. 



Pterocarpus santalinus L. f. East Indian sandalwood; red sanders; ealia- 

 turholz. 



Southern India. 



Wood very hard and very heavy; sapwood white, heartwood dark- 

 claret-red to almost black, but always with a deep-red tinge, orange-red 

 when first cut, the shavings giving an orange-red color. Used for house 

 posts, agricultural implements, carved work, and dyewood. The value 

 of redwood as a dye is due to a red coloring principle, "santalin," which 

 is soluble in alcohol and ether, but not in water. Dissolved in alcohol, 

 it dyes cloth a beautiful salmon-pink color. 



Van Eed. 99; Wiesner 2:937-939; Gamb. 259; Holtzapffel 103. 



BAUHINIA TYPE. 

 Bauhinia acuminata L. 

 India Malaya, China. 

 Froduees the pretty and durable ''mountain ebony."' 



E.-Pr. 3 3 :149. 



Bauhinia malabarica Roxb. Alabanghang (Phil.). 



India and Burma to Cochin China, the Philippines, and Malaya. 



Moderately hard and moderately heavy. Not very durable. Prominent 

 parallel transverse lines on tangential section. Wood rather poor quality. 

 Fuel. 



Gamb. 282; Van Eed. 102; K. & V. 2:24-26; Pierre 400. 



