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tree. Can be had in large logs. Both Lakuch and Kaita-da, 

 according to Colonel Drury, would appear to be a species of 

 the jack tree. 



Weight about 40 Ibs. per cubic foot. 



Thitman, or "Prince of Woods" (Podocarpus neritfolia), 

 produces a wood of light yellow or yellowish grey, close 

 even grained, and fairly hard. Much esteemed in Burma 

 and of considerable importance in the Andaman Islands, it 

 is excellent to work, and is used for general carpentry, 

 also for oars, spars, and tea boxes. Logs may be got 

 up to 35 ft. and 15 inches square. The medullary rays are 

 very fine and numerous. 



Weight 39 to 42 Ibs. per cubic foot. 



Mohwa (Mimusops littoralis), Andaman bullet wood, is 

 used for general building work and house posts in the 

 Islands ; in Burma it is called Katpali ; it is red in colour, 

 smooth and close grained, but apt to split. In the 

 Andamans it is also used for bridges. The tree is seasoned 

 like teak by " girdling," is not attacked by white ants, but 

 is difficult to cut or saw and drive nails into. 



Weight 64 to 72 Ibs. per cubic foot. 



Thingan (Hopea odorata), which is a lofty tree, attaining 

 a height of 200 ft. and sometimes 80 ft. to the first branch, 

 grows in the tropical moist forests of Burma and in the 

 Andaman Islands, where it is called Kimda. It is the chief 

 timber of Southern Tenasserim, and is a good deal used for 

 gun carriages and general carriage work. 



It furnishes a beautiful, valuable, and durable wood of 

 yellowish brown colour, hard, close and even grained, and 

 boats made of it are said to last twenty years. Half a 

 dozen logs of thingan were in a London sale catalogue 



