522 FOXWORTHY. 



Homalium luzoniense F.-Vill, (Plate XXVIII, fig. 79), and other species. 

 Aranga. 



Philippines. 



A very hard and durable wood. Reddish; close-grained. Pith-rays 

 very fine and very numerous, turning out to pass vessels. Vessels 

 medium -size, scattered. Used for piling and structural work. Con- 

 sidered by many as the best wood for piling in the Philippines. 



Phil. Woods 373; Gard. G3. 



Hydnocarpus alpina Wight. 

 India and Ceylon. 



Light-brown, hard, with streaks of darker color and clearly containing 

 tannin. Seasonal rings faint. Pores moderate-sized, often subdivided 

 radially into 2 or 3, scanty. Pith-rays fine, very numerous and closely 

 packed, the distances between them much less that the transverse diameter 

 of the pores. Used for beams and rafters and a good fuel. 



Gamb. 42. 



Pangium edule Reinw. Putjung; pangi. 

 Malay Archipelago. 



A hard wood ; used for house building. 

 Van Eed. 12; Janssonius 1:211; K. & V. 5:6-8. 



Trichadenia zeylanica Thw, Tolol ((high.). 

 Ceylon. 



Wood yellowish-white, hard. Pores moderate-sized, often subdivided, 

 rather scanty, in radial patches. Pith-rays fine, very close, regular, 

 bent round the pores. 



Gamb. 41. 



DATISCACEJS. 



Tetrameles nudiflora 11. Br. 

 India and Ceylon. 



White and soft. Seasonal rings marked by a belt of close pores. 

 Wood cells large. Pores large, often subdivided and in short zigzag 

 transverse lines. Pith-rays fine to moderately broad, clearly marked, 

 the distance between the rays equal to the diameter of the pores. 'Tea- 

 chests. 



Gamb. S81; K. & V. 9:37-40; Van Eed. 150; Lewis 309. 



Octomeles sumatrana Miq. Plate XXVIII, fig. 80. Binuang (Phil.); mi- 

 nuang (M.) ; kajoe-palaka (M. ). 

 Sumatra, Borneo, Philippines. 



Wood soft, yellowish, not durable. 

 Van Eed. 150; Becc. 579. 



