498 FOXWORTHY. 



Grewia tiliaefolia Vahl. 



British India and Ceylon, tropical Africa. 



White wood, with small brown heart. Hard,, easy to work, very 

 durable. Used wherever firmness and plasticity must be combined, as 

 in masts, rudders, etc. 



Watt Diet. 4:184; Gamb. 109. 



Grewia microcos L. 



British India, Burma, Ceylon, Cochin China. 



Gray, soft. Pores moderate-sized, scanty, joined by wavy belts of soft 

 tissue, broken but concentrically arranged. 



Gamb. 112 ; Niird. IV; Pierre 152; K. & V. 1:226-228; Janssonius 1:502. 



Numerous other species of Grewia occur and some of them are also 

 used like those above described. 



Pentace burmanica (L.) Kuiv. 

 British India, Malacca, Java. 



White, on exposure to the air reddish, light, soft wood, used princi- 

 pally for boats and tea-chests. 



Waft Diet. 4': 131; E.-Pr. 3": 17; Gamb. 10(5; Pierre 151. 



Schoutenia ovata Korth. Oostindisch paarden vleesch (Dutch). 

 Java. 



Beautiful reddish-brown, long- and smooth-fibered, very elastic and 

 durable structural wood, surpassing all others for bows. 

 V;ni Eed. 51; K. & V. 1:211-215; Janssonius 1:525. 



MALVACEAE. 



Wood soft to moderately hard; light to heavy. Pores of medium 

 size, scattered. Pith-rays of medium size. Sapwood and heartwood 

 usually quite distinct. Heartwood often with distinct rose-like odor. 



Bombycidendron campylosiphon (Turcz.) Warb. Plate XXVI, figs. 54, 55. 

 Probably not to lie distinguished in the wood from B. vidmUtmum (Naves) 

 Merr. & Rolfe. 

 Philippines. 



Wood with much the same appearance as that of Hibiscus tiliaceus but 

 distinctly harder and heavier; and with distinct ripple marks on the 

 tangential Burface (Plate XXVI, fig. 55). Used for cabinet making, car- 

 riage building, shafts, flooring, ordinary construction, furniture, planks, 

 boat building, telegraph poles, sides and backs of guitars and mandolins. 



Phil. Woods 385. 



Hibiscus tiliaceus L. "Corkwood" of the Antilles. 

 Tropics of the world. 



The nut-brown, very light and easily worked wood is used as floats 

 for fish nets, light boats, etc. Also for some purposes as a kind of 

 "rosewood." 



K. A V. 2:10G; Watt Diet. 4:247; Gamb. 88; Nord. IX; Van Eed. 30; Ridl. 

 49; Janssonius 1 :380. 



