550 FOX WORTHY. 



Fagraea speciosa Bl. Tembusu tembaga; tombusu talang; tembusu paya. 

 Malay Peninsula. 



Wood like that of F. fragrans but more compact and resinous, with a 

 strong odor and showing no concentric lines. Very durable. House 

 beams, bridges and planks, 



Ridl. -Jit;. 



Fagraea wallichiana Benth. 

 Malay Peninsula. 



Very heavy and darker in color than that of other species. A very 

 fine compact wood. 

 Ridl. 217. 



Strychnos nux-vomica L. Kajoe-oelar; "snakewood;" "strycbnine tree;" 

 bidara-pahit. 



Ceylon, British India, Burma, Java. 



Wood white, close-grained, durable. No heartwood, no seasonal rings. 

 Pores of two classes ; large pores very scanty ; very small pores numerous, 

 in irregular ramified patches, which are joined by concentric and oblique 

 white lines. Pith-rays white, fine and moderately broad, numerous, 

 sharply defined in the darker tissue. The large pores, which are prom- 

 inent as white streaks on a vertical section are filled with a white pith- 

 tissue, and sometimes ramify; they may be not vessels, but large inter- 

 cellular ducts. The wood is bitter and is not eaten by white ants. Used 

 for plow-shares, car-wheels, cots and fancy cabinet work. 



Gamb. 497; Watt Diet. 6":382; Van Eed. 100; K. & V. 9:65-08; Boulger 274. 



Other species of Strychnos are also used, but their wood has a structure 

 like thai just described. 



APOCYNACE^E. 



Wood white, soft to bard, even-grained, rarely with heartwood. Pores 

 small or very small, scanty, in short or long radial groups. Pith-rays 

 very fine, very numerous. Occasional light concentric lines as in 



Alston in. 



Alston ia macrophylla Wall. Plate XXX, fig. 97. Batino. 

 Philippines. 



Much harder than A. scholar is. Without the white concentric lines. 

 Pores distinctly in radial rows. Structural work. 

 Phil. Woods 377. 



Alstonia scholaris (L.) R. Br. Plate XXX, fig. 98. Dita ; chatwan; Plai; 

 "corkwood." 



British India and Ceylon to New Guinea and Australia, Philippines. 



Wood white, soft, even-grained, seasons badly, and soon gets moldy 

 and discolored if allowed to season in the log. Pores moderate-sized, 

 oval, subdivided, ringed, scanty. Pith-rays fine, wavy, irregularly 

 distributed, with numerous intermediate extremely fine rays. Numerous 



