558 FOX WORTHY. 



broad, the distance between them equal io or greater than the diameter 

 of the pores. 



Qmmb. 514, tab, xi, fig. ./,,• Niird. ix (sapwood). 



Millingtonia hortensis 1.. Sekar-poetih j potean. 

 British India. Burma and .Malay Archipelago. 



Wood soft, yellowiah-white. Seasonal ringB marked by the younger 



wood with few pores and the older wood with rather more numerous ones. 

 Pores small, numerous, arranged in light-colored patches which run to- 

 gether to form a more or less concentric zigzag pattern. Pith-rays fine, 

 the distance between the rays somewhat larger than the transverse di- 

 ameter of the pores. Very soft and corky; used for boxes and other 

 temporary uses. 



Gamb. 509; Watt Diet. 5:247; Van Eed. 183. 



Oroxylum indicum Benth. Pincapincahan (Phil.); pohon-pedane. kaioe- 

 sabel (M.). F H •' 



British India. Burma, Andaman*, Ceylon, Malaya. 



Wood yellowish-white, soft; no heartwood. Pores scanty, moderate- 

 sized, uniformly distributed. Seasonal rings marked by more numerous 

 pores. Pith-rays fine to moderately broad. Matchwood. 



Gamb. 510; Ridl. 21 s ; Van Bed. 184. 



Pajanelia rheedii DC. 



British India, Burma, Andaman Islands. 



Wood orange-brown, very hard, close-grained. Pores large, occasion- 

 ally filled with yellow resin; each pore surrounded by a narrow ring of 

 wood parenchyma, uniformly distributed. Pith-rays line, very numerous, 

 uniform and nearly equidistant, prominent. Wood very similar to that 

 of Planchonia Hit oralis, but differs by more prominent pith-rays and 

 larger pores, which are not arranged in bands, but isolated. 



Gamb. f>17. 



Various species of Radermachera and, possibly, other genera occasionally 

 furnish trees of sufficient size to give soft and easily worked woods. 



Stereospermum. Wood grayish-brown, heartwood (if present) yel- 

 lowish-brown. Pores small to large, variable in size, scanty, surrounded 

 by wood parenchyma, the patches joined into more or less concentric belts. 

 Pith-rays fine to moderately large, rather scanty. 



Stereospermum chelonioides DC. 



British India, Burma, Ceylon, Malay Peninsula. 



Wood hard, gray, no heartwood. Pores moderate-sized and large, 

 joined by narrow, irregular, wavy, interrupted belts and lines of soft 

 tissue. Pores frequently filled with a white substance of a resinous 

 nature, which is prominent on a vertical section. Pith-rays short, wavy, 

 moderately broad, numerous. House building, furniture, canoes, tea- 

 boxes. 



Gamb. 514; Ridl. 217; Watt Diet. 6 3 :4Gb; Van Eed. 1S4. 



