Description of the Woods in the Collection. 49 



47. NOT IDENTIFIED, 



Native Name, " KOKEERU " (2). 



Salient Features. A hard, heavy, compact, fine-grained, nut- 

 brown wood of uniform colour. 



Physical Characters. Weight (so far recorded), 56 Ibs. per 

 cubic ft. Hardness, Grade 4, hard; compare Yew. Smell or 

 taste 0. 



Colour of Heartwood darkens but little on exposure to the air ; 

 not defined from the Sapwood. Surface bright. Perhaps a Sap- 

 wood tree, as my specimen (though hardly appearing quite normal), 

 is the same dark colour throughout. 



Bark ( ?). Surface of log beneath bark, wrinkled. 



Uses, Qualities, etc. "Small sizes' very crooked boat-crooks 

 and wheel felloes " (2). Very hard to saw. Fissile, takes nails 

 badly ; planes and turns hard and indifferently. Of little, if any, 

 export value. Sometimes confused with Hitchia, No. 34, from 

 similarity in colour. 



Authority. 2. Bell, p. 7. 



ANATOMICAL CHARACTERS. 



The same as those of Hitchia, No. 34. 



Transverse Section. Much darker in shade than the other 

 sections. 



Pores. Just visible with the naked eye, especially when they 

 have white contents; not diminishing regularly towards the close 

 of the season's growth; considerable variation in no particular 

 order. Evenly distributed; widely scattered over the whole section. 

 Mostly single, perhaps all ; the larger Pores empty, or a few con- 

 taining chalky matter ; the smaller filled with red resin or gum. 



Rays. Visible with the lens ; uniform ; irregular, more than 

 the width of a Pore apart; red. 



Rings. Not defined; boundary and contour doubtful. 



Soft Tissue of no definite arrangement; not visible with lens. 



Pith. (?) 



Radial Section. The Pores are fine scratches containing minute 

 drops of red gum. The Kays are very shallow, but owing to their 

 red colour, appear prominent. 



Tangential Section as the Eadial, but lacking the " silver- 

 grain." The Rays need the microscope, being minute and about 

 "25 m/m. high. 



Type Specimens. Authenticated by Bell, No. 47/2703. 



48. ANDIKA SP. 



Nat. Ord., LEGUMINOS.E. Native Name, " KAMARAKATA " (2).^ 



Salient Features. A light, rather soft, yellowish -brownish 

 wood, of uniform colour. Structure in Transverse Section very 

 prominent. The dark brown wood having a bitter taste and 

 resembling Hackia, described by McTurk (20), under the above 

 name, is obviously a, different wood. 



