548 FOXWORTHY, 



OLEACE^. 



Wood white or yellowish-white or light-brown, sometimea with a dark 

 irregular heartwood, usually close- and even-grained. Pores sometimes 



in while patches. Pith-rays usually One, sharply defined. In Osmanthus 

 the pores are in reticulate anastomosing patches. In Osmanthus and 

 Linociera there are narrow concentric lines, the relationship of which 

 to seasonal rings is very doubtful. 



Linociera. Wood yellowish-white or light-brown, hard, close-grained. 

 Pores small, usually in short radial groups. Pith-rays fine or very line, 

 distinct, numerous. Fine, fairly regular concentric lines prominent. 



Linociera intermedia Wight. 

 British India. 



Wood fine, like boxwood. 

 Gamb. 47:1. 



Several other species of ttiis region, which ale usually either small or very 



mucli scattered, are found to produce the same kind of wood. 



Osmanthus fragrans Lour. 

 British India to China and Japan.. 



Wood white, hard, close- and even-grained. Pores in irregular light- 

 colored patches, radially elongated, arranged obliquely and branching; 



the patches somewhat distant and forming a net-work, and the pores 

 small and numerous in them. White, very narrow parallel concentric 



lines, which look like seasonal rings, hut are not. Pith-rays line, uniform. 

 Gamb. 47l^ : N"8rd. IX. 



Schrcbera swietenioides Roxb. [Ndthima awietenioides (Roxb.) (». tltce.) 

 Moka i llind.i. 



British India and Burma. 



Wood brownish-gray, hard, close-grained; no definite heartwood, hut 

 irregular masses of purple or claret-colored wood in the center, and 

 scattered throughout the tree. Seasonal rings indistinct. Pores small. 

 often in small groups in radial arrangement. Pith-rays line, numerous, 

 uniform and at equal distances. Beams of weavers' looms, combs, 

 turnery. 



Gamb. 4(H). tab. V. fig. 8; Niinl. X: Walt Diet. 6": 488, 



SALVADORACE.dE. 



Salvadora persica L. 



India, Persia, Syria. Arabia, central Africa. 



Wood white, soft. Pores small, in short radial lines, inclosed in oval 

 patches of soft tissue, very scantily distributed, hut prominent on a 

 vertical section. Numerous line, interrupted, concentric hands of wood 



