1ND0-MALAYAX WOODS. 501 



Kleinhofia hospita L. 



India, East Africa, through Malaya to New Guinea and Polynesia. 



Whitish, brown-spotted wood, valued for walking sticks, weapon han- 

 dles, etc. 



Pierre 177; Gamb. 99; Van Eed. 39; K. & V. 2:178-181; Janssonius 461. 



Pterocymbium javanicum Bl. 

 Java. 



Wood verv much the same as that of P. tinctorium. 

 Janssonius 439; K. & V. 2:162-165. 



Pterocymbium tinctorium (Blanco) Men. Plate XXVI, fig. 57. Teluto. 

 Philippines. 



Wood very suit and Light, whitish, no heartwood. Pith-rays large. 

 Pores large and scattered ; ripple marks very evident on tangential -ret ion. 

 Phil. Woods 395. 



Pterocymbium viridiflorum T. & P>. Taloetoe. 



Celebes. 



Like the preceding. 

 Van Eed. 41. 



Pterospermum. Wood reddish, moderately hard. Pores small and 

 moderate-sized, often in short radial lines. Pith-rays fine, closely packed. 



Pterospermum suberifolium Lam. 

 British India and Ceylon. 



Structural wood. 



Gamb. 101; Nord. X (pith-rays very short, arranged on the transverse section 

 in watermark pattern) ; Watt Diet. 4:1S4; Van Eed. 42; K. & V. 2:1SG-191. 

 Several other species of the genus are also used. 



Sterculia. Wood usually light and soft, not durable. Pith-rays of 

 medium size. Pores of medium size, scattered. 



Sterculia foetida L. Telambu (Cingh.). 



British India to New South Wales; cultivated in America. 



Gray soft wood, for masts and boxes. 



Watt Diet. 6 3 :363; Gamb. 93 ; Van Eed. 43; Janssonius 422; K. & V. 2: 

 139-142. 



A number of other species are used, but none are of much importance. 



Tarrietia. Wood with dark red or reddish-brown heart. Moderately 

 hard to very hard and heavy. Pores medium-size to large, often with 

 colored deposits. Pith-rays moderately large. Wood parenchyma scat- 

 ' tered, occasionally in irregular, broken, concentric lines. 



Tarrietia cochinchinensis Pierre. 



Cochin China. 



A useful structural wood in Cochin China. 



Pierre 205. 



