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Garcinia. Hard or moderately hard, close-grained, yellowish-white, 

 red or gray, with numerous characteristic wavy bands of loose texture. 

 Pores scanty, small to large. Pith-rays usually fine. 



Garcinia cowa Roxb. 



Eastern Bengal, Assam, Chittagong, Burma, and the Andaman Islands. 



Gamb. 64; Nord. IV; Pierre, page KXVIII, 119. 



Garcinia speciosa Wall. 



Coast of Martaban and Tenasserim. 



The beautiful uniformly reddish-brown wood is used principally for 

 house and bridge building. 



Watt Diet. 3:477; Pierre, page XIV, 59. 



Numerous other Garcinias are used in much the same ways. 



Mesua ferrea L. (If. speciosa Choiay). Plate XXVII, fig. 64. "Indian rose 

 chestnut;'' naga-kesara ; pennagah ; "the Ceylon or East Indian ironwood or 

 nagasholz." 



Wild in India, cultivated in the whole of the East Indies because of the white 

 fragrant flowers and the wood. 



Wood somewhat resembling that of GaXophyllum, but much harder and 

 heavier. Heartwood dark-red, extremely hard. Pores moderate-sized, 

 scanty, often filled with yellow resin, Bingle or grouped or in oblique 

 strings of varying Lengths. Pith-rays extremely line, uniform, equidis- 

 tant, very numerous. Numerous fine, wavy, concentric lines of dark- 

 colored tissue, regular and prominent, but of very different lengths. 



Structural work and furniture. According to Grisard and v. d. Ber- 

 ghe, the wood has an aromatic odor and also bears the name of "Bois 

 d'Anis." 



E.-Pr. 3":219; Watt Diet. 5:238; Sender 034; Gamb. 59-61; Nord. XI; Ridl. 

 40; Van Eed. 19; Pierre 97. 



Ochrocarpus longifolius Benth. k Hook. f. 

 Western India. 



Wood red, hard, close- and even-grained. Pores moderate-sized. Pith- 

 rays moderately broad, very numerous, the distance between them equal 

 to, or less than the diameter of the pores. Seasonal rings marked by a 

 dark line. Lines of soft texture numerous, but indistinct. Numerous 

 resin-ducts in radial long cells, which appear as shining lines on a 

 horizontal, and black spots on a vertical section. 



Gamb. 55. 



Ochrocarpus siamensis T. And. 



Cochin China ; cultivated in the whole of Indo-China. 



Wood almost as hard as that of Mesua ferrea and substituted for it. 

 Gamb. 50; Pierre 94-96. 



Poeciloneuron indicum Bedd. 

 Western India. 



Wood dark-red, heartwood darker, very hard. Pores moderate-sized, 

 ringed, single or in short slanting, irregular lines. Pith-rays fine, 



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