1ND0-MALAYAN WOODS. 541 



Palaquium borneense Burck. Njatoe-doerian, 



Borneo. 



Vhii Eed. 164. 



Palaquium javense Burck. NTjatoh; njatoe; kawang; djempina; grawang. 



Java. 



Furniture and structural work. 



Van Eed. 165; K. & V. 1:143-146. 



Palaquium sp. Nyatto pisang. 



Sarawak. 



Very bard and durable. Boats. 



Palaquium obovatum Engl. Belian wangi. Betis. 



Timber very dull-reddish, grain medium, very bard and very heavy; 

 splits slightly in drying; affords beams of excellent quality, which remain 

 undecayed a long time under water and are nol badly eaten by termites. 

 Pith-rays fine, rings distinct and irregular with very fine concentric rings 

 numerous and wavy. Pores moderate in short rows parallel with the 

 rays, often subdivided, not, very numerous. 



Ridl. 213; also in Agric. Bull. I'. M. 8. & B, B. I 1906) 39; (1907) 171. 



Palaquium polyanthum Engl. 

 British India. 



Wood wi\, hard. Pores moderate-sized, in wavy radial lines, some- 

 times slightly oblique. Pith-rays fine, not prominent. Fine wavy, 

 parallel and equidistant concentric lines. Planks, tool bandies, etc. 



Oamb. 44ti: Nttrd. X. 



Palaquium bancanum Burck. 

 Mala; Peninsula. 



Wood reddish-brown, rays fine and close, pores moderate, in radial 

 rows; rings fairly distinct, fiber wavy. A light wood with a good gloss. 



Ridl. 213. 



Numerous other species of Palaquium are used, most of them of not 

 very good quality. 



The name nolo, with its variants, is applied to this genus and its 

 close relatives, gutta-percha bearing plants, all the way from Madagascar 

 to the Pacific. In the Malay Peninsula the equivalent term is taban and 

 in Sumatra halam. 



Becc. 579. 



Payena leerii Km/.. Gutah-sundik ; njatoe-balam-bringin ; balam-tandjong; 

 poeting; getah-seundik (M.). 



Malay Peninsula, Borneo, Sumatra, Banka, Biouw. 



Wood used for house building. 



Van Eed. 105; Ridl. 213. 



