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Llyrtaceae 

 The common Ouayabo-tree 



Paldium una Java Kaddi, laem. IBEl, 2, 



Description of the tree 



A. small tree, mostly v/ith a lew, more or less crooked 

 truiik, covered with a scaly, reddish bark, ano a dex^ressed, 

 broadly e>;ijanded Brown; ultimate hraachlets tetragonal, Euba- 

 late, more or less s i Iky- i)ube scent. (^ Leaves op^josite, disti- 

 chous, vsuocoriaceous, the ^jetioles about 5 /iira. long, the 

 blades oblong to oblong-elliptic, rounded at the base, acute 

 and mostly apiculate, 5 to IE cm. long, 3 to 5 cm. broad, 

 obscurely transparent dotted, .aore or less plicate, glabrous 

 or glabrescent above, puberulous beneath. Peduncles axillary. 

 1 to 3-f lowered, about 1.5 cm. long; flov/ers .'hite, about 

 2.5 cm. in diameter; calyx closed in the bud axid Ojjening 

 irregularly in 4 or 5 lobes; petals 4 or 5, ovate; stamens 

 numerous, with ovate anthers; , cvary inferior, many-ovul8 te; 

 style simple, capitate. 3erry pomiform or pyriform, 3 to 6k 

 cm. long; the seeds numerous, immersed in a succulent pulp./ 



Be scrip t i p n of the v/ood 



Sapwood thin, light brown or sometimes nearly '.7hite; 

 heartwood brown, turning darker on exposure. ..'ood moderately 

 hard, heav;-, strong, toiigh, straight and exceedingly fine- 

 grained, taking a good polish end durable in contact with 

 the soil, annual rings of growth not visible even under 

 high power microscope. 



(Pores ^t-r-aiisverse section) very n.imerous and small (.05 

 mm. in diameter), round or slightly oval, open both in sap- 

 wood and in heartwood, arrang-ed chiefly singly or sflmetimes 

 in short radial rows of from a few to 6. Vessel walls tien*- 

 _g4t«d4«Bi-seGfl&n>- with very nunercas, small, transversely 

 elongated bordered xjits. Perforations simple, './ood fibers 

 about l.liSi mm. long, v/ith thick walls and relatively small 

 luraina , and with a few small, slit-lii:e, simple pits, Wood 

 parenchyma not strcngly developed .)y«ays very numerous, net 



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