INDO-MALAYAN WOODS. 491 



Euonymus crenulata Wall. 

 Southern India. 



The white, very hard wood is considered in its native country the best 

 substitute for box. 

 Watt Diet. 3:291. 



Kurrimia robusta Kurz. 

 Cochin China. 



The wood, with a structure similar to that of Dalbergia spp., produces 

 excellent material for cabinet work. 



Kokoona zeylanica Thw. 



Ceylon. 



Wood for tea chests. 



Lewis 309. 



Cassine glauca (Pers.) 0. Ktze. 



Tropical Asia. 



Clear-brown to reddish, often beautifully marked, moderately hard, 

 readily polished wood for framing and cabinet work. 



Watt Diet. 3:207. 



Lophopetalum. Wood light, soft to moderately hard, even-grained, 

 somewhat shining. Pores small to moderate-sized. Pith-rays very fine, 

 very numerous. Concentric very narrow dark lines of wood parenchyma, 

 prominent, interrupted, wavy. 



Lophopetalum wightianum Am. 



British India, Cochin China. 



Reddish-gray, moderately hard, close-grained. Pores large, usually 

 subdivided, sometimes in short strings. Pith-rays fine, conspicuously 

 bent around the pores when they meet them. Parallel narrow concentric 

 lines prominent. House building. 



Gamb. 174; Nord. X; Pierre 307. 



Gymnosporia. Wood close- and even-grained. Pores small or very 

 small. Pith-rays fine and very numerous. Concentric bands prominent 

 in most species, caused by variations in the size of the wood cells, some 

 of the cells being filled with a dark resin-like substance. 



Gymnosporia montana Lawson (Celastrus senegalensis Lam.). 

 British India. 



Light-reddish-brown, soft, close-grained, durable. 

 Gamb. 177; Nord. XL 



ICACINACE^]. 



Gonocaryum sp. Swamp trees of the forests of Burma. 



Urandra apicalis Thw. 

 Ceylon. 



Wood used for tea-chests. 

 Lewis 309. 



