8o THE TIMBERS OF THE WORLD 



Empata. Pterocarpus Rassak. Weight, 54 lbs. Borneo. , 



This timber is close-grained and hard, and much resembles the grain 

 and colour of false acacia {Rohinia Pseudacacia), but is of a deeper tint. 

 The wood is durable but somewhat liable to warp. 



The medullary rays are fine, clearly marked and parallel, but not 

 equidistant. The pores are numerous, uneven, and irregular, and are 

 sometimes partially filled with resin. 



Eng. Dipterocarpus tuherculatus, Roxb. Weight, 39 lbs. 4 oz. (my 

 sample) ; 50-59 lbs. (Gamble) ; 55 lbs. (Brandis). Burma. 



In the United Kingdom the name " eng " is most commonly used, 

 while in its native country the term " in " is usually employed to 

 designate this wood. It is a straight tree attaining, according to Troup 

 (" Forest Pamphlet," No. 13), " the height of 80 to 90 feet with 

 a girth of 8 to 10 feet, but it may attain a height of over 120 feet and a 

 girth of 15 feet." The timber is of a dull reddish-brown colour and has 

 gummy pores. It has a pleasant and aromatic scent, which can pervade 

 a room and is fairly persistent. The wood greatly resembles Borneo 

 camphor-wood, Siamese yang, and Andaman gurjun wood. Concerning 

 this last, Sir D. Prain, in a private note, points out that " the Gurjun 

 of Chittagong, or Kanyin of Burma, are in botanical characters difficult 

 to separate from D. laevis, and indeed they are generally considered 

 identical. Yet within what is thus treated as one species the natives 

 had two distinct things which they recognized readily as TeUa (from 

 tel or teU-oil), the tree that yielded the wood oil, and Denha, a tree with 

 a good, strong yet light, wood, used among other things in the poles of 

 palanquins (known as DenHs). The wood of this Gurjun or Kanyin 

 tree is very like that of the Eng (D. tuherculaUis) which also yields a 

 wood oil, or oleo-resin. The timber of the Eng is very similar in colour 

 and grain to that of the Kapor or Camphor tree of Sumatra and Borneo 

 [Dryobalanops aromatica)." Sir D. Prain says that he thinks that this 

 tree " does not contain pockets of camphor, but that it may at times. 

 If there be a timber which habitually shows pockets of camphor I do 

 not know it, and should expect it to be some distinct species, and not 

 Dryobalanops aromatica." 



Eng is of hard texture, is straight-grained and works easily. When 

 planed the resinous pores shine brightly. The timber is imported in 

 sawn planks, clean and sound, from 10 feet to about 35 feet long, 7 inches 

 to about 18 inches wide, and from 2 to 9 inches in thickness. As the 

 trees are large and of great height, with clean, straight boles, even larger 

 sizes could be obtained if required. " Were it not that Burmah has 

 so many valuable timbers, and especially Teak, Eng would probably 

 be in even greater demand " (Gamble). In India the wood is largely 



