470 FOX WORTHY. 



for construction and furniture ( F. Mueller, Select Extra-tropical Plants 

 (1881) 1). 



Acacia ferruginea DO. Iromvood. 



India. 



Blits 1. c.j Gamb. 298; Watt Diet. 1:50. 



Acacia farnesiana Willd. Ironwood. 

 Throughout the tropics; original homo uncertain. 



Acacia koa (hay. Koa wood. 



The most important furniture wood of the Hawaiian Islands. 



Acacia leucophloea Willd. Pilang (M.). 

 British India, Ceylon, Burma, Malay Archipelago. 



Wood hard and heavy; sapwood large j heartwood reddish -brown with 

 lighter and darker streaks. Seasons well, takes a good polish, but is 

 often eaten by insects. Fuel. . 



Gamb. 295; Watt Diet. 1:52; Van Eed. 112; K. & V. 1:286-289. 



Acacia melanoxylon R. Br. Plate XXIII, fig. 23. Black wattle. 

 Southeastern Australia; naturalized in India. 



Soft to moderately hard and moderately heavy. Sapwood light brown; 

 heartwood dark brown and beautifully mottled, shining, even-grained. 

 Pine furniture and veneer, also carriage building. 



E.-Pr. 3 3 :110; Semler G20; Watt Diet, 1:53; Gamb. 301; Hough Amer. Woods 

 7:155; Stone 81, pi. V, fig. 44. 



Acacia modesta Wall. 

 Himalaya, Punjab. 



Beautiful, dark-brown, black-striped heart. Very hard, firm and 



durable. Wheels, sugar presses, agricultural implements, etc. 



Watt Diet. 1 :53. 



Acacia planlfrons W. & A. 

 India. 



Agricultural implements. 

 Watt Diet, 1:54. 



Acacia tomentosa Willd. Klampis (M.). 

 British India, Ceylon, and Malaya. 



Hard and heavy, but not durable. Used only for fuel. 

 Van Eed. 112; K. & V. 1:289-291. 



Caesalpinia sappan L. Plate XXIV, tig. 31. Sappan wood; sibucao (Phil.). 

 India and Ceylon to Malaya and the Philippines, widely cultivated. 



Very hard and heavy. Sapwood white, heartwood dark orange-yellow. 



Fine-grained, takes a tine polish; useful for cabinet work and inlaying, 



but chiefly used for dyeing. (See p. 425.) 



Gamb. 2(>7; Wieaner 2:934; Van Eed. 103; Ridl. 137; Stone 70; Holtzapffel 

 105. 



