562 poxworthy. 



Sarcocephalus cordatus Miq. Plate XXX, fig. 107. Bancal (Phil.) ; kajoe- 

 mas (M.) ; bakmi (Ceylon) ; "yellow wood." 



Ceylon, Burma, Malacca, Philippines, Malay Archipelago, New Guinea, North 

 Australia. 



Wood soft, sapwood light-yellow, heartwood bright-yellow. Pores 

 moderate-sized, rather scanty, usually subdivided, in rough radial lines 

 between the numerous fine pith-rays which bend round them. Furniture, 

 door frames, panels, sandals, tea-chests. 



Gamb. 400; Nord. VI; Phil. Woods 375; Lewis 309; Van Eed. 157; K. & V. 

 8:13-15. 



Sarcocephalus junghuhnii Miq. Mangel ; chermin aver (M.) ; mamhog 

 (Phil.). 



Malay Peninsula, Philippine Islands. 



Wood fairly heavy, bright-yellow when fresh, turning brown; not vcry 

 hard. Sapwood not very distinct. Pores large and small mixed, rays 

 very close and fine, rings fairly distinct and regular, narrow and almost 

 poreless. A good ordinary building wood, durable. 



Ridl. 209. 



Scyphiphora hydrophyllacea Gaertn. Cingum (M.). 

 In the mangrove swamps throughout this region. 



Wood dark-brown, fine-grained, rings obscure, pores exceedingly small, 

 and pith-rays very fine. 



Ridl. 210; K. & V. 8:125-127. 



Urophyllum glabrum Wall. 

 Malay Peninsula. 



Maingay says Urophyllum is the kayu gading ; the wood is very pale 

 whitish-red or reddish-white, grain medium, very hard, splits very slightly 

 in drying. Used for the manufacture of kris bandies and probably 

 valuable for carving or wood engraving. The name kayu gading is 

 applied to several plants which have white (like ivory) hard wood, 

 chiefly species of Canthium, Petunga venulosa and also Huntcria corym- 

 bosa. 



Ridl. 210; K. & V. 8:66-68. 



Wendlandia. Wood reddish-brown. Pores small, evenly distributed. 

 Pith-rays of two kinds, very fine and fine or moderately broad, numerous. 



Wendlandia exserta DC. 

 British India. 



Hard. Seasonal rings marked by fewer pores in the later-formed wood. 

 Building, agricultural implements, house posts. 



Gamb. 408; Niird. IX (W. excelsa) ; Watt Diet. 6*:402. 



Other species of the genus in India and Malaya produce wood very 

 much like that already described, but usually in small pieces. 



