516 FOX WORTHY. 



Monoporanda cordifoiia Thw. 

 Ceylon. 



Pachinocarpus umbonatus Hook. f. 

 Borneo. 



Soft white wood. 

 E.-IV. 3": 270. 



Parashorea plicata Brandis. White lauan. 



Philippines. 



Phil. Woods 886. 



Parashorea stellata Kurz. [Shorea Btellata Over.) ('bengal (M.) ; thin- 

 gadu (Burm.) ; kaunghmu (Burm.). 

 Burma, Malacca, Cochin China. 



Brownish-white, moderately hard. Used for boat building. 



(Jamil. 83; Watt Oiet. 6' 2 :(57S; Ridl. in Agric. Bull. F. M. 8. t B. S. 6 (1907) 

 170. 



Pentacme contorta (Vid.) Merr. & Rolfe. White lauan. 



Philippines. 



Phil. Woods 3S0. 



Pentacme suavis A. DC. (P. siamcnuis Kur/). [ngyin (Burm.). 

 Burma, Cochin China. 



W 1 very bard, very heavy, cross-grained, in this respect similar to 



sal which il also resembles in color. Very durable, indestructible in 

 water. Wood fibers diaphragmed with delicate cross-walls; the vessels 

 form shorl radial row-; iho pith-rays are usually two cells wide and 

 have crystal-bearing border cells. 



Gamb. 77; N8rd. IV [Hopea avavit Wall.); E.-Pr. 3 C :2G3; Watt Diet. 6 2 :678; 

 Pierre 225-227. 



Shorea acuminata Dyer. Rambeh daun; niaranti pavah. 

 Malay Peninsula. 

 Ridl. 58. 



Shorea aptera Burck. (Hopea balangeran de Vr., not Korth.) Minjak tang- 

 lea wang. 



Borneo. 



Burck in Ann. Jard. Bot. Buitenz. 6 (1887) 210. 



Shorea assamica Dyer. Makai. 



Assam. 



Gamb. 83. 



Shorea balangeran Burck. {Hopea balangeran Korth. j Parahopea balangeran 

 Heim.) Yacal (Phil.); njating-mahambong; tengjawang-blongseng; tengkawang- 

 seloengsoong ; balangeran (M. ). 



Banka, Borneo. Philippines. 



This furnishes a part of the yacal of the Philippines, and probably, 

 also, a part of the sdangan baiu of British North Borneo. 

 Phil. Woods 396; Burck 1. c. 214. 



