214 BOTANY. 



TENASSERIM LANCE-WOOD. 



A tree which produces a timber possessing the proper- 

 ties of lance-wood is not uncommon in the Provinces, but 

 it belongs to the dog-bane tribe, and is not at all related 

 to Guattcria virgata, the lance-wood of commerce. 

 Apocynace<B. 



BURMAN BOX-WOOD. 



The Karens have sometimes furnished me with speci- 

 mens of a wood that can scarcely be distinguished from 

 the box-wood of Europe, but I have never seen the tree 

 Wallich found Nauclea cordifolia on the banks of the 

 Irrawaddy, which has ' ; wood coloured like that of the box 

 tree, but much lighter, and at the same time very close 

 grained." It may possibly be the same tree, although 

 the Tenasseriin wood is not light ; or it may be a Tavoy 

 tree, which he says has " a strong tough wood, in grain 

 like box." 



Murray a. 



SELUNG BOAT TIMBER. 



The Selungs of the Mergui Archipelago shoot over 

 their waters with remarkably light boats, and they owe 

 their buoyancy to the materials that form their sides, 

 which are the stems of the edible zalacca. These stems 

 are as light, and of the consistency of cork, for which 

 they are often substituted ; and the Selungs are skilful 

 in uniting them together to serve instead of planks, 

 so as to make an unequalled sea boat, that floats on the 

 waves like a swan. 



Zalacca edulis. 



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DAMMER PINE 



Griffith mentions Agathis loranthiflora, or the dammer 



pine, as a member of the Tenasserim Flora, and I have 



seen the young plants of the tree to which he must re- 



The leaf is precisely that of the dammer pine, bat 



