INDO-MALAYAN WOODS. 529 



Anogeissus. Wood gray usually with a small purple-brown heartwood, 

 hard, close-grained. Pores small, in light-colored patches sometimes 

 arranged more or less concentrically (A. latifolia and .1. acuminata) , 

 sometimes radially (.1. pcnduJa). Pith-rays fine, uniform, equidistant. 



Anogeissus latifolia Wall. 

 British India. 



Very hard and very heavy. Seasonal rings marked by lines without 

 pores. Pores small, very numerous, often subdivided, surrounded either 

 singly or in loose patches by wood parenchyma, the patches arranged 

 obliquely or transversely in a roughly concentric fashion. Pith-rays 

 very fine, extremely numerous, uniform, equidistant. Transverse di- 

 ameter of the pores about equal to the distance between the pith-rays. 

 Very strong and tough, but splits in seasoning and unless kept dry is 

 not very durable. Ax handles, poles for carrying loads, axles of carts, 

 furniture, agricultural implements, shipbuilding. Good fuel and ex- 

 cellent charcoal. 



Gamb. 340, tab. VII, fig. h; N5rd. X, also IX (Conocarpus) ; Watt Diet. 1 :257. 



Lumnitzera littorea (Jack) Voigt (L. coccinea W. & A.). Plate XXIX, fig. 

 87. "Red-flowered mangrove;" nana (Guam); culasi, siigasa, tabao (Phil.); 

 taruntum, griting (M.) ; doekoek, doekoek-ageng (Jav. ) ; taroengtoeng (Suma- 

 tra) ; api-api (Java and Sumatra). 



British India and Ceylon to Australia and Polynesia; a mangrove swamp tree. 



Wood hard and heavy, grayish- or yellowish-brown, occasionally with 

 a certain reddish tinge. Fine-grained, with faint rose-like odor -when 

 first cut. Irregular seasonal rings said to be sometimes present. Pores 

 small, in short radial lines. Pith-rays fine, numerous, the distance 

 between them about equal to the diameter of the pores. Wood strong 

 and durable. Used for piling, with the hark on. In Borneo, this wood 

 is considered as second only to hill inn for piling, and much of it is 

 exported for that purpose. On the Malay Peninsula it is ased for the 

 axles of carts. Used for boat building by the natives of Kaiser Wil- 

 helmsland. Not much used in the Philippines, although it is very 

 widely distributed. , 



Ridl. 173; Van Eed. 129; Safford 385; Becc. 578: Bargagli -Petrucci 77. tab. 

 XIV; K. & V. 9:31-33. 



Lumnitzera racemosa Willd. Kripa (Bong.); yinye (Burm. ). 

 Tropical east Africa, Madagascar, Ceylon, British India, Burma, .lava. New 

 Guinea, Australia, Polynesia, Philippines, and Formosa. 



This is a much smaller and less importanl tree than the last, but it is 

 said to be very important as a firewood in some sections. The wood is 

 strong and durable and is sometimes \\<vt\ for bouse posts. ■ 



Gamb. 34S ; K. & V. 9:33: Watt Diet. 5:97. 



