IN DO-MALAYAN WOODS. 4()9 



Millettia pendula Benth. Thinwin (Bunn.). 



Southern India and Burma. 



Dark-colored, purplish-black, prettily marked, dense, very heavy and 

 hard wood. Agricultural implements. 



Watt Diet. 5:247; E.-Pr. 3 3 :271 ; Gamb. 23:5. 



Other species are also used, but they do not seem to furnish much wood, and 

 the quality of the wood is indifferent. 



Pericopsis mooniana Thw., Plate XXIV, fig. 25. 



Ceylon. 



Pale-orange-brown, streaked with darker hues. Hard, heavy, smooth, 



with very pretty grain. Furniture, carts, etc. The finest furniture wood 



in Ceylon. 



Gamb. 265. 



HARDWTCKTA TYPE. 



Acacia arabica Willd. Babul (Hind.). 



Tropical Asia and Africa. 



An excellent, durable, extensively used wood. Hard and heavy; sap- 

 wood large, whitish; heartwood pinkish-white, turning reddish-brown on 

 exposure, mottled with dark streaks. Vessels with red deposits. Agri- 

 cultural implements, cart wheels, house building, furniture, fuel and 

 charcoal. When used for furniture the timber is carefully seasoned in 

 water. 



Watt in Agric. Ledger (1902) 2:73; Gamb. 292; Nord. XI; F. v. Mueller 2; 

 Van Eed. 111. 



Acacia catechu Willd. Khair (Hind.). 



British India, Burma, and Ceylon; tropical Africa. 



Sapwood yellowish-white, heartwood either dark- or light-red, ex- 

 tremely hard and very heavy. Seasons well, takes a fine polish and is 

 extremely durable. Used for all kinds of agricultural implements, bows, 

 spears, sword-handles, and wheelwright work. Employed for house 

 boats in Burma and very largely used as fuel for the steamers of the 

 Irawaddy flotilla. The fuel of dead khair is much valued by goldsmiths. 

 Said to be good for railway sleepers. Said to be proof against the attack 

 of teredo and termites. The chief product of the tree is the cutch, 

 which is extracted from the heartwood by boiling. 



Watt in Agric. Ledger (1902) 2:80; Gamb. 296-298; Van Eed. 112. 



Acacia eburnea Willd. 

 India and Ceylon. 



Hard and heavy. Yellowish-white, often with a red heartwood. Used 

 only as fuel. 



Gamb. 294; Nord. IX. 



Acacia excelsa Benth. 



East Australia. 



Produces a kind of rosewood (E.-Pr. 3 3 : 110), which is also called 

 "ironwood" (G. A. Blits Bull. Kol. Mus. Harlem 19 (1898), and La used 



