INDO-MALAYAN WOODS. T-89 



Koordersiodendron pinnatum (Blanco) Merr. {Helicteres pinnata Blanco). 

 Plate XXV, fig. 45. Amuguis (Phil.). 

 Philippines, Celebes, and New Guinea. 



Wood moderately hard, and heavy, fine-grained, dark-red. Much in 

 demand for construction and cabinet work. 

 Phil. Woods 371; Gard. 62. 



Lannea grandis (Demist.) Engl. (Calcsiam grandis 0. Ktze; Odina wodier 

 Roxb.). Kiamil (Hind.) ;. wodier (Tam.) ; nabhay (Burm.) ; hik (Cingh.). 



India, Ceylon, Burma. 



A generally useful wood, which is not to be distinguished from that 

 of Koordersiodendron. 



Watt Diet, 5:445; llidl. 108; A' T an Eed. 88; Gamb. 218-220, tab. V, fig. 6; 

 N6rd. IX; Pierre 375. 



Mangifera. No heartwood, grayish to brownish in color. Pores darge, 

 prominent on a vertical section. Pith-rays fine, generally closely packed. 

 Occasionally fine, wavy, concentric lines. 



Mangifera indica L. The mango. 



British India, Burma, Ceylon and Malaya; widely cultivated. 



Planking, doors and window frames, packing cases, canoes. Other 

 species of Mangifera are used in much the same way. 



Gamb. 111-114; Nord. V; Ridl. 108; Watt Diet, 5:14G-157; Van Eed. 87; 

 K. & V. 4:75-93; Lewis 309; Pierre 301. 



Melanochyla spp. 



Various fairly good woods of the Malay Peninsula and Borneo, which are 

 usually of rather small size and not in great quantity. 

 Becc. 575; Ridl. 110; Bargagli-Petrucci 40. 



Melanorrhoea. (Plate XXV, fig. 4G.) Wood dark-red, with yellowish 

 streaks, turning very dark after long exposure, very hard and heavy. 

 Pores moderate-sized, scanty, often subdivided, each pore or group of 

 pores inclosed in a small patch of light tissue. Pith-rays very fine, wavy, 

 very numerous. Numerous undulating, often interrupted, very narrow, 

 concentric lines of soft tissue, unequally distributed in the wood. Con- 

 tains a poisonous gum, which may even affect a person after the wood 

 is made up into furniture. 



Melanorrhoea maingayi Hook. f. Rengas manau (M.) ; "Straits mahogany." 



Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, and Borneo. 



Beams and furniture. 

 Ridl. 109. 



Melanorrhoea usitata Wall. ''Black varnish tree," thitsi (Burm.). 

 British India. 



Tool handles, anchor stocks, building, railway sleepers, gunstocks. 

 Gamb. 217, tab. V, fig. 5; Nord. VIII; Watt Diet, 5:210; Pierre 3G7. 

 Several other species occur in the Malay region and are known by 

 the name of ringas (Becc. 575), or -'Borneo rosewood." Their uses are 



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