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In India this tree yields a solid useful timber, which, like 
another dye-wood, bears the name of ‘‘ Red Sandal-wood.” A 
dye is obtained by simply rubbing the wood against a stone, and 
this is used by the Brahmins for marking their foreheads after 
religious bathing. (Zreasury of Botany.) Gamble (Manual of 
Indian Timbers) says this wood is used in South India for house- 
building and cabinet-making purposes, and gives the weight at 
56lbs. per cubic foot. The wood is described by Skinner as 
follows :—“ Heart-wood hard and durable; when fresh cut of a 
beautiful coral-red colour, and sometimes marked with stripes of a 
darker shade; after exposure it turns purple, like rosewood.” 
Kurz (Flora of British Burmah), describes it somewhat 
differently :—‘‘ Wood rather heavy, coarse, fibrous, light-brown or 
yellowish-grey, turning brown on exposure, hard and close-grained, 
soon attacked by xylophages; the heart-wood dark-brown, solid, 
hard and durable.” 
North Queensland. 
61. Aigiceras majus, Gerin., (Syn., @. fragrans, Ken.; 2. 
corniculata, Blanco); N.O., Myrsinez, B.FI., iv., 277. 
“ River Mangrove.” 
A shrub or small tree. Wood of light colour, close-grained, 
and easily worked. It is used for firewood and for native huts in 
Jessore. It weighs 4olbs. per cubic foot. (Gamble, Manual of 
Indian Timbers.) The flowers are deliciously scented. 
New South Wales, Queensland and Northern Australia. 
62. Ailanthus imberbiflora, 7.v.4/.; N.O., Simarubez, B.FI., i., 
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Wood yellow, porous, soft, and light. 
Northern New South Wales and Queensland. 
63. Akania Hillii, Benth., (Syn. Cupania lucens, F.v.M.); N.O., 
Sapindacee, B.FI., i., 471. 
Occasionally called ‘‘ Turnip wood.” 
Wood of a light colour, close-grained, and prettily marked ; 
warps very much in drying, but this particular log was from a 
