INDO-MALAYAN WOODS. 559 



Stereospermum suaveolens DC. 



British India and Ceylon. 



Wood hard; sapwood gray; heartwood small, yellowish-brown, beauti- 

 fully mottled with darker streaks, very hard, seasons and polishes well. 

 Pores moderate-sized, inclosed in patches of wood parenchyma which are 

 more or less concentrically arranged and sometimes run together into 

 concentric belts. Pores frequently filled with a white shining Bubstance,. 

 which becomes yellow in the heartwood. Pith-rays fine, sharply defined, 

 numerous, wavy, equidistant. Durable, easy to work and good for 

 building, but the amount of heartwood is small. An excellent firewood 

 and makes good charcoal. 



Gamb. 515; Watt Diet. 6 3 :367. 



BUBIAOEiE. 



Wood white, yellow, or rarely red, close- and even-grained, generally 

 hard or moderately hard; usually no heartwood. Pores small or very 

 small j in Anthocephalus cadamba and a few other species, moderate-sized. 

 Pith-rays uniform, equidistant, fine or very fine, often closely packed. In 

 Morinda the pores collect in patches, but otherwise the structure is very 

 uniform. Many of the species have woods resembling boxwood, and 

 worthy of practical test to see if they could not be used as substitutes 

 for it. 



Adina. Wood yellowish, moderately hard to hard, even-grained. Pores 

 small, numerous. Pith-rays fine and very fine, numerous. 



Adina cordifolia Hook. f. 



British India, Burma, Ceylon. 



No heartwood. Seasonal rings faint. Pores small, numerous, evenly 

 distributed. Pith-rays very fine, short, numerous. Combs, turnery, 

 house posts. Durable. 



Gamb. 401, tab. IX, fig. 2; Nord. VII, IX; Watt Diet. 1 :114. 



Adina rubescens Hemsl. Berombong (M.). 

 Malay Peninsula. 



Heartwood yellow, with distinct rings. Hard and heavy wood suitable 

 for building. 

 Ridl. 209. 



Anthocephalus cadamba (Roxb.) Miq. Henhja, kajoe-koening (M.). 



Southeastern Asia, Malay Archipelago, New Guinea. 



Wood white, with a yellowish tinge, soft, even-grained. Pores large, 

 oval, elongated, subdivided, sometimes in short radial lines, scanty. 

 Pith-rays fine, numerous, close together, bent outward where they touch 

 the pores. Structure very similar to that of Sarcoccphalus cordatus 

 Miq. Structural work, joinery, tea-chests. 



Gamb. 400; Nord. IX; Watt Diet. 1 :266; Van Eed. 154 ; K. & V. 8:8-11. 



