528 FOXWORTHY. 



size. Used for piling, roof supports, etc., specially prized as a high- 

 grade firewood. 



K. ft V. 4:287-289; Van Eed. 127. 



Ceriops tagal (Parr.) C. B. Rob. (C. oandolleana An.). Tama] (Phil )■ 

 tengah (M.). " ' ; ' 



Same distribution as the last. 



Same kind of wood and same uses. Shipbuilding. 

 Walt Diet. 2:261; K. & V. 4:284-287; Van Eed. 127; Ridl. 172. 



Gynotroches axillaris R]. Etfata Iceli; koekoeran (M.). 



Malay Peninsula and Archipelago. 



Wood soft, moderately heavy, not durable, light-brownish. Used for 

 house work, rafters, blades of oars. etc. 

 K. & V. 4:30(]-21.3; Ridl. 173. 



Kandelia rheedii W. & A. Tumu (M.). 

 British India to Formosa and Malaya. 



Much less common than the preceding and but little used. Pith-rays 

 said to be distinct from the rest of the wood because of a distinct 

 yellow color. 



K. & V. 4: 290. 



Rhizophora conjugata L. Bakko, Akit (M.) ; Bacauan (Phil.). 

 Tidal forests of eastern Africa, Asia, and Australia. 

 Very hard and very heavy; like the next. 

 Ridl. 172; K. & V. 4:282; Van Fed. 12S. 



Rhizophora mucronata Lam. Plate XXIX, fig. 8C. Belukap, b'lukap (M ) • 

 bacauan (Phil.). ' 



Principal constituent of the mangrove on the Zanzibar coast (there called 

 mkonko), (lien in the Seychelles.. Madagascar, the whole of tropical Asia, through 

 Malaya to Australia. 



^ Much valued for construction work in regions of east Africa where 

 timber is scarce. Piling, firewood. 



Ridl. 172; Gamb. 335; Wiesner 2:123; K. & V. 4:278-282; Boulger "41- Van 

 Fed. 128; Newton flj HoltzapfTel 93. 



1 can not distinguish the wood of Rhizophora spp. from that of Brugmera spp. 



OOMBKETACE^E. 



KEY TO THE CKNEKA OF < DM liRETACE.^. 



Pores more or less connected and surrounded by wood parenchyma 



Pores medium-sized to small Anogeissus 



Pores medmm-sized to huge Terminal™ 



Pores not surrounded nor connected by wood parenchyma, small and in short 



radial lines T 



Lumnitzera 



