INDO-MALAYAN WOODS. 561 



Ixora. Wood brownish, hard, close-grained. Pores small. Pith-raya 

 very fine, numerous, regular. Very numerous species but usually of 

 relatively small size. 



Gamb. 420; Ridl. 211; K. & V. 8:146-169. 



Pavetta and Coffea are much like the last. 



Mitragyne. Wood reddish- or yellowish-brown. Pores small to mod- 

 erate-sized, not very numerous. Pith-rays fine, numerous, uniform. 

 Wood cells usually rather large. 



Mitragyne parvifolia Korth. (Stephegyne parvifolia Korth.) Kajoe mas, 

 kajoe-koening ( M. ) . 



British India, Burma, Ceylon. 



Wood light-pinkish-brown, moderately hard, even-grained, much re- 

 sembling that of Adina cordifolia, but rather harder, and at once 

 recognized by its different color. Pores small, numerous, uniformly 

 distributed. Pith-rays very fine, numerous, short. The wood is easily 

 worked and polishes well; it is durable, if not exposed to wet, It is used 

 in building, furniture, agricultural implements, combs, cups, spoons and 

 platters, and for turned and carved articles. 



Gamb. 403; Niird. VII and X; Van Eed. 155; K. & V. 8:38-40. 



Morinda tinctoria Roxb. Mengkudu. 



British India, Burma, Ceylon, Malay Peninsula and Archipelago. 



Wood red, often yellow with red streaks, moderately hard, close-grained. 

 Seasonal rings fairly marked. Pores small, scanty, in radial or oblique 

 groups, rather distant from each other. Pith-rays fine and moderately 

 broad, rather distant. Durable; plates and dishes. 



K. & V. 8:192-194; Gamb. 422; Eidl. 211. 



Nauclea sp. Plate XXX, fig. 106. Calamansanay. 

 Philippines. 



Wood hard and heavy, yellow with a beautiful rose tint; close- and 

 straight-grained. No seasonal rings. Pith-rays very fine, pores small 

 and scattered. Used for flooring, masts of boats, beams in interior con- 

 struction, posts for houses or in contact with the ground, shipbuilding, 

 telegraph poles, window sills. 



Phil. Woods 378. 



Randia. Wood creamy-white, light-brown or grayish-brown, smooth, 

 close-grained, bard. Pores small or very small, evenly distributed. Pith- 

 rays fine and very fine, numerous. 



Randia dumetorum Lam. 



British India, Burma, Ceylon, Abyssinia, China, Sunda Islands. 



Seasonal rings marked by a belt without pores. Agricultural imple- 

 ments, fences, fuel. 



Gamb. 413; Watt Diet, 6:391; K. & V. 8:96. 



