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strength 5'1 tons, and coefficient of elasticity 495 tons per 

 square inch. 



Weight about 50 Ibs. per cubic foot. 



Anjan (Hardwickia binata) is a large deciduous tree which 

 produces one of the hardest and heaviest of Indian woods. 

 Heartwood dark red streaked with black, often with purple 

 tinge, cross grained and very close. Extremely durable, it 

 lasts well in the ground as sleepers and is appreciated for 

 naves of cart wheels and ploughshares ; it is liable to split, 

 but does not warp. The tree is getting rather scarce. The 

 pores are well filled with resin, the medullary rays fine and 

 numerous. 



Weight about 82 Ibs. per cubic foot. 



Eng or In (Dipterocarpits tuberculatus) is one of the oil- 

 bearing trees whose timber is in considerable demand for 

 boat and house building. It is slightly reddish brown in 

 colour and of a hard nature. It grows plentifully in India 

 and Burma, and a small quantity of eng planks are brought 

 into the Clyde and other British ports each year. 



Weight 50 to 59 Ibs. per cubic foot. 



Gurjun (Dipterocarpus turbinatus) is another of the oil- 

 bearing trees of India. A lofty evergreen sometimes 

 attaining a height of over 200 ft., it gives a wood of a red 

 brown colour, but the timber is soon destroyed by the 

 white ants, and it is not much appreciated in India, though 

 used for house-building to a small extent, and a few gurjun 

 planks come occasionally to the English market, probably 

 as stowage. The tree grows on the Chittagong hills, in 

 Burma, and the Andaman Islands. 



Weight about 38 Ibs. per cubic foot. 



Boxwood (lliu'its semperrirens) is a small tree found in 

 different parts of India which yields a wood of yellowish 



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