6.93 BURMA, ITS PEOPLE AXD PRODUCTIOXS. 



Lal-zfi Zfijrrsfrce/niu tomenfosa,¥res\ 39 



Very pale brown, grain rather fine, but fit for planliing and coarse carpentry only. 

 Ma-da-ma .... (Botanical name unknown) 65 



Orange-red, liard, fine and straight-grained, but very fissile. A favourite wood 

 for kiiile or sword handles, sticks or the like, and posts, being very durable. 



Kurz applies this name (incorrectly I think) to two species of Balbergia 

 (Z*. glauca and ovata). 



Mani-ok-kha . . . CaraUia lucida, Koxb 47 



Pale orange-yellow, fine-grained, but feathery ; dresses easily, but has no great 

 strength. It would make a good furniture wood, as it looks well when polished. 



Ma-ji Tamarindm LxJica, L 86 



Heartwood dark purple. Sapwood pale yellowish. Intensely hard and close- 

 grained, the heartwood being one of the most impei-ishable woods I know. A 

 splendid ornamental wood for massive carved furniture, but costly to work, and never 

 used. No workman could carve it without specially tempered tools. Highly to bo 

 commended for turnery, blocks, etc., as a substitute for lignum vitie. 



Ma-tha-le. (Botanical name unknown.) 



Ma-u Sarcocephalus caclamha, iliq. {fide Kurz). ... .37 



Light yellow, soft and easily worked, and therefore much used for common 

 carpentry, but terribly liable to the attacks of xylophagous coleoptera. Having no 

 specimen of this wood, I follow Brandis, as Kurz is certainly wrong in giving 73 lbs. 

 as its weiglit. 



Ma-u-ka-dun . . . 8arcocephalus cordatm, iliq. {fide Kurz). . . 37 



Light yellow, close-grained and easily dressed, and a good wood for light car- 

 pentry. Selected planks display a pretty dotted or mapled grain. 



Mong-theh-Sk . . . (Botanical name unknown) 53 



Reddish-brown, fine-grained and easily dressed. Would probably prove a good 

 second-class furniture wood and adapted for indoor work, not requiring gi'eat strength. 



Mi-ai-a Grewia microcos, L 45 



Very pale redtlish-brown, fine-grained, and would serve for planking and coarse 

 carpentry. 



'Mi-na-ban. Myct-hna-ban . (Botanical name unknown) 55 



Pale, or wliitish, hard and very close-grained. A good wood for ordinary carpentry 

 purposes, planking, etc., and as a substitute for 'Box.' 



This is I beUeve the so-called Martaban lance-wood. Kurz applies the name to 

 a shrub, Strohilanthesflava. 



Myouk-na-doung . . Cassia auricuJafa, L 52 



Palo orange-brown, grain coarse, but wood strong and esteemed for rough uses. 



Myouk-meng-thwe-ge (Botanical name unknown) 50 



The name signifies " T/ie blood-goufs of the monkey king.'''' 



Pale coloured, rather fine-grained, but little used save for bows and spears, for 

 which it is highly esteemed. Whence its vernacular name I cannot say. 



Myouk-shor . . . Homalium tomentosum, Bth 62 



Pale yellowish-brown, close-grained, but little esteemed. It probably decays 

 rapidly under exposure, but from its abumlance and large scantling is deserving 

 attention for coarse indoor work, planking, etc. 



Gamble says the wood is ' durable,' which requires confirmation. 



Myouk-goung . . . (Botanical name unknown) 43 



Pale yellowish-brown or yellow, open grain, but an excellent light furniture 

 wood resembling Toung-hin, and perhaps some species of Arfocarjius. 



