INDO-MALAYAN WOODS. 557 



Axles, beams, bridges, cabinet making, carabao yokes, cogwheels, general 

 high-grade construction, docks, doors, finishing of houses, firewood, floor- 

 ing, footings in the ground, futtocks, palo (wooden club to pound rice), 

 posts, joists, knees, piles, pillars, pinions, planks, plows, rafters, rice 

 mortars, shipbuilding, cutwater, ships' knees, ribs, frames, siding of 

 houses, sleepers, sternposts, sugar presses, wedges, wheel rims, nndersills, 

 paving blocks, railroad ties. For many purposes, it seems to be fully the 

 equal of teak. 



Phil. Woods 389; Gardner 55; Van Eed. 194; Boulger 217; Semler 685. 



Vitex pubescens Vahl. Halban; calipapa; leban; kuzoe-arak; molave. 



British India, Burma, Andaman Islands, Borneo, Philippine Islands, Malay 

 Archipelago and Peninsula. 



Wood smooth, reddish-brown or olive-brown, very hard, close-grained, 

 seasonal rings marked by a more or less sharp line and by a broad belt 

 of firmer wood on the outer edge. Pores small to moderate-sized, scanty, 

 uniformly distributed. Pith-rays fine and very fine, numerous, equidis- 

 tant. Difficult to distinguish from the preceding. Durable, used for 

 structural work, mine-props, etc. 



Gamb. 541; Kidl. 218; Van Eed. 195; K. & V. 7:202-204. 



Other species of Vitex are also used, furnishing wood of excellent quality. 



BIGNONIACE^E. 



Pores usually moderate-sized, ringed or in patches of loose texture 

 which are often oblique or confluent into more or less broken concentric 

 belts; they are often filled with resin. Pith-rays fine, regular. 



Dolichandrone. Pores rather scanty, small to moderate-sized, in 

 oblique lines and sometimes in concentric bands. Pith-rays fine, numer- 

 ous. Texture, color and hardness variable. 



Dolichandrone spathacea (L. f.) K. Sch. (D longissima (Lour.) K. Sch., 

 D. rheedii Seem.) Tui (Phil.). 



Malabar to New Guinea. 



Wood white, soft, Pores small, often subdivided, in wavy, narrow, 

 concentric bands. Pith-rays very fine, very numerous. Not durable. 

 Used for temporary construction. 



Gamb. 512; Van Eed. 183; K. & V. 1:69-71; Becc. 581. 



Heterophragma. Pores moderate-sized, ringed. Pith-rays fine, the dis- 

 tance between the rays being equal to or greater than the transverse 

 diameter of the pores. No regular distinct concentric bands. 



Heterophragma adenophyllum Seem. 



British India. 



Sapwood light-yellow ; heartwood orange-yellow, with occasional darker 

 streaks, moderately hard to hard. Pores moderate-sized, ringed, filled 

 with yellow resinous matter, uniformly distributed, but occasionally 

 running into more or less concentric lines. Pith-rays fine to moderately 



