504 FOXWORTHY. 



GUTTIFEREJ. 



Wood usually reddish, generally with a distinct heartwood, and marked 

 by characteristic, faint, concentric lines, which arc often interrupted. 

 Pores variable in size, usually rather large, single or more or less 

 oblique wavy lines, Pith-rays fine or very line, clearly marked. 



Calophyllum. Wood soft or moderately bard, reddish, with a darker- 

 colored heartwood; seasons well; weight moderate. Cellular tissue reg- 

 ular, cella roughly rectangular. Tores medium-sized or large, promi- 

 nent on a vertical section, arranged in wavy strings or groups. Pith- 

 rays fine or very line. Indistinct on a cross-section, but prominent as 

 straight narrow lims on a radial section. Interrupted concentric lines 

 of darker color and larger cells, also prominent on vertical section. 



Calophyllum inophyllum L. Plato XXVII, fig. 01. "Alexandrian laurel;" 

 palo marie do la playa or bitaog (Phil.) ; pennagah (M.). 



Africa to India, Malaya, Australia, and Polynesia; often cultivated. 



Extremely difficult to split. Used for tine furniture, howling halls, 

 knees of boats, turnery, etc. (See p. 431.) 



Gamb. 67, tab. I, fig. J,; Nurd. IX; Phil. Woods 390; Card. 04 ; Becc. 569; 

 Ridl. 45; Watt Diet. 2:32; Van Eed. 18 j Wiesner 2:974; Janssonius 272-276. 



Calophyllum spectabile Willd. 



British India, Burma, and the Malay Peninsula. 



Mast and spar wood. 



Van Eed. 17; Watt Diet. 1:460, 2:32; Ridl. 40; Pierre 107; Janssonius 

 276-278. 



Calophyllum tomentosum Wight. Poon. 

 I Vylon. 



Spar wood. 



Watt Diet. 2:32; (Jamb. 57; Niird. X; Lewis 30S. 



Many other species of Caloqriiyllum are used, usually under the name of 

 cntanyor or binlangor. They are generally used as spars or masts for small 

 boats. Plate XX VII, fig. 02. 



Newt. 4. 



Cratoxylon. Plate XXVII, fig. 63. Wood usually with more pro- 

 nounced concentric lines than in Calophyllum. 



Cratoxylon neriifolium Kurz. 

 India and Burma. 



Structural wood. 



Gamb. 49; Watt Diet. 2:588; Pierre 49. 



Cratoxylon glaucum Korth. Gerunggang. 

 Borneo. 



Very soft, light, red wood, for interior finish. 



Several other species of Cratoxylon occur in Borneo and are often used under 

 the name of gerunggang. 

 Becc. 586. 



