490 FOXWORTHY. 



like those given above. Their poisonous properties have occasioned so 

 much inconvenience thai the wood is gradually going out of use. Where 

 this wood is used, it is customary to fell it and then to leave it in the 

 jungle until the beetles, termites, etc., have completely destroyed the 

 sapwood. 



Pistacia integerrima J. L. Stewart. 

 British India. 



Wood very hard; sapwood white; heartwood yellowish-brown, beauti- 

 fully mottled with yellow and dark veins. Seasonal rings marked by a 

 belt of large pores. Pores in the rest of the wood very small, forming 

 irregular patches, which are frequently arranged in zigzag lines. Pith- 

 rays fine, very numerous. Used for furniture, carvings and all kinds of 

 ornamental work. 



CJamb. 210, tab. V, fig. J, ; Nord. X. 



Rhus. Wood gray, often streaked, with a yellow or brown heartwood. 

 Pores small, but often large and in continuous porous belts in the earlier- 

 formed wood. Pith-rays fine and moderately broad. 



Several species occur scattered in the highlands through this range; 

 but they are of little importance commercially because of their small 

 size and scattered occurrence. 



Semecarpus. Wood usually of poor quality. Used locally for light 

 or temporary construction. The wood has poisonous properties, like 

 Mclanorrhoea, Swintonia, Gluta, etc., which interfere with its usefulness. 



(See p. 431.) 



Gamb. 220; K. & V. 4:122-230; Van Eed. 90; Lewis 309. 



Swintonia. Wood much like that of Melanorrhoea, but not so prom- 

 inently streaked. Usually a more even, reddish or whitish color. 

 Equally poisonous. Large trees in the Malay Peninsula, but reaching 

 their best development in Borneo. 



AQUIFOLIACEiE. 



Ilex spp. Numerous Bpeciefi of this genus occur throughout the 

 orient, but they are usually of small size and not of any very general 

 usefulness. Wood line-grained, while, hard. 



CELASTBAOELaE. 



Wood compact, even-grained, white. Pores very or extremely small. 

 Pith-rays very fine and very numerous. 



Euonymus hamiltoniana Wall. 

 Northern India, central Asia, Japan. 



The yellowish- white, soft wood is used in India for w T ood carving. 

 Watt Diet. 3:292. 



