Description of the Woods in the Collection. 1 



I have been able to detect is in the soft tissue. This may or may 

 not be constant, so I give it for what it is worth. 



Soft Tissue. Transverse section. 



The concentric lines are not always continuous, and are sometimes 

 fragmentary, and their width is not much more than that of the 

 Rays. The S.T. is a subordinate feature. 



Type Specimen. Authenticated by Bell, No. 6/2662. 



7. NOT IDENTIFIED. 



Nat. Ord., BURSERACE.E. Native Name, " BARADA-BALLI " (2). 



Salient Features. A close-grained brown wood of medium 

 weight and uniform colour. 



Physical Characters. Weight (so far recorded), 51 Ibs. per 

 cubic ft. Hardness, Grade 6, firm. Smell and taste 0. Colour 

 of Heartwood, "White " (2). My specimen is distinctly brown. 

 Darkens but little on exposure to the air. Sapwood not defined 

 from the Heartwood (?), a Sapwood tree. 



Bark. J-J in. thick, wrinkled; dark brown within; woody, 

 full of hard bodies. Surface of log beneath Bark, finely 

 striated . 



Uses, Qualities, etc. " A useful furniture wood and gives good 

 boards " (2). Fissile, takes nails badly. Planes easily but very 

 badly; turns indifferently, though moderately easily. Polishes 

 well. Of little, if any, value for export. 



Authority. 2. Bell, p. 3. 



ANATOMICAL CHARACTERS. 



Transverse Section. A little darker than the other sections. 



Pores. Visible with the naked eye when moistened ; little varia- 

 tion ; evenly distributed ; mostly single, some pairs. 



Rays. Scarcely visible with the naked eye; very fine; of two 

 kinds, both pigmented. Irregularly spaced, as regards the 

 middles of the larger, much more than the width of a Pore apart. 

 The smaller Rays and the attenuated edges of the larger are less 

 than the width of a Pore apart, and are very numerous. 



Rings. Apparently well-defined; boundary doubtful; contour 

 regular. 



Soft Tissue. Of no definite arrangement, merely sheathing the 

 Pores. 



Pith.-(l) 



Radial Section. The Pores appear as fine scratches; the Rays 

 as fine lines, visible in certain lights; the Rings are not in- 

 dicated. 



Tangential Section as the Radial, but the Rays are still more 

 difficult to see. In a properly prepared microscope section, the 

 Rays are seen to be large and small. The large are spindle-shaped 

 bodies terminated at each end by a single row of cells, about half 

 the height of the many-rowed portion. Unlike the " edge-cells " of 



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