The weight is 38 lbs. 12 oz. to 87 Ibs. 2 oz. Heyne re- 
ports that the timber is used for posts, but it seems to 
be of poor quality. It is a good fire wood. 
11. B. minor (Malay Peninsula) 
The wood is light, reddish fawn in color; weight 46 Ibs. 
12. B. parviflora (Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, Kali- 
mantan) 
W ood compact and hard, often used to make clubs by 
the Malay. Light fawn or yellow in color, with large 
and fine rays mixed and connected with very small trans- 
verse bars. Weight 23 lbs. Probably of use for work in 
which box-wood is commonly used (Ridley). 
13. B. polyneura (Malay Peninsula) 
The wood is very durable and good for house posts. 
14. B. racemosa (Sumatra, Java, Kalimantan /) 
The timber is good for house building, boat and other 
construction. It is particularly strong, fine and hand- 
some, and it is often used as furniture (Hasskarl, quoted 
by Heyne). The physical character of the wood has been 
discussed extensively by Janssonius in his Mikrographie 
des Holzes. 
15. B. reticulata (Malay Peninsula, Sumatra) 
Maingay described the timber as of a dull red color, 
fairly hard, and stated that it does not split on drying: 
weight 52 lbs. 6 oz. 
16. B. sapida (Nepal, India, Indo-China, Burma, 
Malay Peninsula) 
Wood grayish brown, soft, with transverse lines of 
wood parenchyma very numerous, pores small, in short, 
radial lines; pith rays moderately broad to broad, the 
distance between the rays being from one to three times 
the transverse diameter of the pores. Easily worked and 
fairly durable. 
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