542 POX WORTHY. 



Payena lucida A. DC. Niato balam. 

 British India and Malay Peninsula. 



Wood red, hard. Pores moderate-sized, in short radial lines. Pith- 

 rays very fine, very numerous, uniform, equidistant, Numerous parallel, 

 wavy, concentric lines, not very prominent. Planking. 



Gamb. 449; Ridl. 213. 



Sarcosperma arboreum Benth. 

 British India. 



Wood pink, moderately hard. Pores moderate-sized, in long, wavy, 

 radial lines. Pith-rays numerous, fine, equidistant, the distance between 

 two rays much less than the diameter of the pores. Indistinct concentric 

 lines. Used in making canoes. 



Gamb. 443. 



Sideroxylon ferrugineum Hook. Tuak-tuak. 

 Mnlay Peninsula. 



Wood hard and heavy, pinkish-brown in color, with very fine rays, 

 and wavy concentric lines, the pores arranged in wavy lines radiating 

 from the center, whiter than the ground color and giving the wood a 

 pleasing mottled appearance. 



Ridl. lMl'; Van Eed. it;."). 



Sideroxylon tomentosum Boxb. 

 British India, Burma, and Ceylon. 



Wood light-yellowish-brown, moderately hard (plains specimens) to 

 hard (hills specimens). Pores fine (hills) to moderate-sized (plains), 

 in groups in short lines, usually oblique, the groups somewhat far apart 

 and in echelon. Pith-rays very fine, very numerous, equidistant Very 

 numerous, very faint lines across the rays, irregular. Structural work. 



Gamb. 444. 



Many other species of Sideroxylon are used locally, but they do not commonly 

 occur in much quantity and so are not of much importance commercially. 



Bedaru, Darn, or Daroo-daroo. This wood lias been credited to this 

 family at various times. Ridley (214) says that it is evidently sapota- 

 ceous. King and Gamble in their materials for a Flora of the Malay 

 Peninsula, 8 under the description of Sideroxylon maiaccense Clarke, 

 make the following statement: "Mr. Cantley (the collector) says that 

 tins tree gives the true 'daru-daru' wood of the Malay Peninsula." 



The wood now known as bedaru or daru in Sarawak and Singapore 

 is distinctly not sapotaceous iu structure. (Seep. 492.) I have collected 

 herbarium material and wood from the same tree in Sarawak and have 

 compared the wood with the material sold under that name by the timber 

 dealers at Singapore and have found the two to be identical. Ii is a 

 species of FIrandra (Icacinaccac). 



• Journ. As. Soc. Beng. 74 2 :162. 



