1ND0-MALAYAN WOODS. 521 



and large in the earlier-formed wood if the seasonable rings are distinct. 

 Pith-rays generally broad, short, distant, giving a marked Bilver grain. 

 Gamb. 40; N5wL I. 



FLACOURTIACEiE. 



Wood usually reddish-hiown, moderately hard or hard. Pores small, 

 in short radial lines. Pith-rays fine, numerous, closely packed. The 



structure closely resembles (hat of the red-wooded section of Euphor- 



biaeciv. 



Casearia glomerata Roxb. 



British India to Hongkong and Java. 



Yellowish-while, moderately hard, coarse wood. 

 Watt Diet. 2:209; Gamb. 378, toft. VIII, fig. ■'> : N5rd. X. 



Casearia tomentosa Roxb. 



British India to Java and north Australia. 



Wood similar to the preceding and used for making combs. 



Gamb. ^79; Watt Diet. 2:209: K. A V. 1:176-178. 



Flacourtia cataphracta Roxb. 

 British India and Burma. 



K. & V. 5:20-28; Gamb. 39, inh. /. fig. 3; Nord. IX: Van Bed. 11; Janasoniua 

 1:209; Ridl. 11. 



Flacourtia ramontchi L'Herit. "Madagascar-plum." 



India. Burma, Ceylon; cultivated in Egypl and throughout southern Asia. 



Red, hard, close- and even-grained, splits Inn <\o<:> not warp, and is 

 durable. Pores small, in radial lines. Pith-rays line, uniform, closely 

 packed and somewhat, wavy. Agricultural implements and turnery. 



Watt Diet. 3:399; Gamb. 40; Van Eed. 12; K. & V. 5:19-22; Janasoniua 

 1 :2iis. 



Gynocardia odorata R. Br. 

 British India. 



Yellow or yellowish-brown wood: \\>r<\ for rough structural work'. 



Watt Diet. 4:194; Gamb. 41. 



Homalium frutescens King. Petaling aver. 



Malay Peninsula. 



A fine-grained wood, suitable I'm 1 building. 



Ridl. 180. 



Homalium tomentosum Benth. Dalingeem. 

 Java to Burma. 



A hard and heavy structural wood. 



K. & V. 1:182-185; Van Eed. 149. 



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