INDO-MALAYAN WOODS. 537 



Memecylon. Wood very hard, close-grained, brown or whitish. Pores 

 small, in irregular groups. Pith-rays many, extremely fine to fine. 



Memecylon edule Roxb. Nipis kulit; "ironwood tree." 

 India. Ceylon, Malaya. 



Valuable hard durable wood, which is one of the besl substitutes for 

 boxwood. ( Sec p. 426.) 



Gamb. 368; Watt Diet. 5:226; Ridl. ITS-. K. & V. 5:210; Beoc. 579. 



Pternandra caerulescens Jack. 



British India. Burma, Straits Settlements. 



Wood light and soft. 

 (Jamb. 368; Ridl. ITS. 



ARALIACEJE. 



Wood white, usually soft. Pores small, usually rather scanty : a 

 line of larger pores often indicating the seasonal rings. Pith-rays mod- 

 erately broad, not numerous, giving a silver-grain. 



Aralidium pinnatifidum Miq. Alus smut. 

 Straits Settlements. 



Wood faint-dull-red, hard, splits deeply in drying. Cprighl supports 

 of bridges and heavy work of a similar description. 

 Ridl. ISO; Gamb. 384. 



Polyscias nodosa Seem. Plate XXIX. fig. 91. Malapapaya. 

 Philippines and Malay Archipelago. 



Matchwood: the hest wood For this purpose in the Philippines. 

 Phil. Woods :5S7; K. & V. 7:11-13; Van Eed. Ml. 



CORNACE^E. 



Pores usually small and in short radial lines, and the pith-rays line and 

 numerous. 



Alangium lamarckii Thw. 

 Eas1 Indies. 



Haul, close-, and even-grained, sapwood light-yellow, hcartwood 

 blive-brown, with a pleasant scent. Pores small, scanty, in short radial 

 lines of 2 to •">. Pith-rays fine, closely packed, wavy, ben! round the 

 pores, the diameter of which is slightly greater than the distance between 

 the rays. 



Watt Diet. 1 :l .").->; Gamb. :5S9. 



Marlea begoniaefolia Roxb. 

 British India. Java. Philippines. 



Wood white, soft, even-grained. Seasonal rings marked by a belt 

 of numerous pores. Pores moderate-sized and large, small in the outer 

 portion of each ring. Pith-rays short, wavy, line and moderately broad. 

 Structural work. 



Gamb. 389; K. & V. 5:S2-S4. 



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