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BEEF-WOOD. 



Beef-wood is imported into the United States in consider- 

 able quantities, for various purposes where a hard heavy 

 wood is required, and the casuarina on our Coast can 

 furnish almost any quantity of this timber, but it is very 

 little used. Roxburgh says it resembles toon in appear- 

 ance. The natives call it by the same name as the pine. 

 Casuarina muricala. 

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SOONDREE. 



The soondree is a gloomy looking tree that may be dis- 

 tinguished from all others for many miles distant. It is 

 remarkably characteristic of a peculiar soil. Wherever 

 the tides occasionally rise and inundate the land, this tree 

 is sure to be found throughout the whole Coast, but it is 

 never found at home, either on the high dry lands on the 

 one hand, nor in the wet mangrove swamps on the other. 

 It is the tree which was described by Dr. Buchanan 

 Hamilton, who accompanied Symnies' embassy, as Htri- 

 tiera Fomes. It is the toughest wood that has been tested 

 in India. When Rangoon teak broke with a weight of 

 870 pounds, soondree sustained 1312 pounds. It is not a 

 very durable wood, but stands without a rival in strength, 

 although so common on the other Coast, as to give name, 

 as Captain Munro thinks, to the Soonderbunds, yet the 

 tree grows much larger in these Provinces, and affords 

 finer timber. 



Heriticra minor. 

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TRINCOMALEE WOOD. 



Dr. Heifer mentions the tree which produces the Trin- 

 comalee wood as growing on King's Island opposite 

 Mergui. It is a light, strong, valuable wood. 

 Berrya Ammonilla. 



martaban camphor wood. 

 This is a very large tree, scattered sparsely throughout 

 the Provinces. Wallich wrote that it was very like Lau- 



