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The wood is of a reddish-brown colour, hard, heavy, tough, strong, 

 and rigid, and it frequently possesses some figure in the grain, which has 



PItoUigraph by J . H. Lace 



Pyinkado, Lower Burma. 



the appearance of being both waved and twisted ; the pores are filled 

 with a thick, glutinous, oily substance which oozes out upon the surface 



