220 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 
Ham., alatus Roxr., incanus Roxs., costatus, Gaertn. The Danmar 
selan of Malaya is an analogous resinous product extracted from the 
Vatica Selanica Wicut & Arn. In Borneo the concrete juices 
of V. Balangeran Korru. (Njuting Mabambong), V. Sangal Kortn. 
and V. Rassak, Bu. (Njuto) are also used. V. robusta Wicur 
& Arn., of India exudes a kind of incense which is burnt in the 
temples under the name of fal or Doona. Shorea Tumbugara 
produces an analogous matter used to coat ships. S. Ja/a, Bucn., 
gives a sort of gum-lac. A kind of balm is still burnt at their 
religious feasts extracted from Vateria lanceolata, Roxs. In short all 
these trees have a juice possessing very homogeneous qualities, more 
or less solidifiable, combustible, often odoriferous, resinous, balsamic, 
furnishing oils, varnishes, tar, and sometimes camphorous substances. 
This is to a certain point a distinctive character to add to those of 
the Dipterocarpe. Their wood is hard, beautiful, fit for building 
purposes. In Java and Borneo are especially employed Diptero- 
carpus gracilis Bu., maryinatus Kortu., littoralis Bu., trinervis Bu, 
retusus BL., Spanoghei Bu. ; in India that of Shorea robusta (vulg. Saul), 
several Vaticas and Vaterias: these are trees, like the Dryobalanops, 
often attaining a height of a hundred feet. The authors of the More 
Senegambiæ Tentamen say of the Lophira alata (figs. 217-221) that 
“the beauty of this tree, as to its foliage and flowers, ought to draw 
the attention of horticulturists ; and would be a valuable acquisition 
to our greenhouses, and to the inter-tropical colonies of Asia and 
America.” 
