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Terminalia Arjuna, Bedd. Weight, 59 lbs. India. 



The wood is a bright, light yellow straw colour, with a close, rather 

 rough grain. Gamble speaks of it as being not easy to work, and apt to 

 spUt in seasoning. It might make good golf club heads. 



The concentric layers are marked by regular, hght bands. The pores 

 are small and uniform. The medullary rays are very fine, numerous, and 

 parallel, and nearly equidistant. 



Terminalia hialata, WaU. Weight, 48 lbs. Burma, the Andaman Islands. 



The produce of this tree appears to be divided into two distinct 

 kinds. The first consists of wood which is wholly of a bright chrome 

 yeUow. The second has only a narrow ring of this yellow wood, the 

 remainder being of a Hght nut-brown colour with dark streaks, some- 

 what resembling ItaUan walnut, and possessing a fine, smooth grain. 

 The larger proportion of the shipments is of this second variety. It is 

 a very attractive and agreeable furniture and decorative wood, which 

 would undoubtedly be highly valued for cabinet work if suppUes were 

 obtainable in a regular manner. Gamble reports thus on it : "In the 

 list of Andaman woods, Calcutta Exhibition, 1883-84, this tree is said 

 to be abundant, having a wood the colour of old oak, which works and 

 poUshes beautifully . . . and squares up to 60 feet long, siding 30 inches 

 . . . the wood makes good furniture, and is used for oars, buggy shafts, 

 and floor and ceiling planking." Whilst being unable to agree with Mr. 

 Gamble in his opinion about the colour — the above description being 

 more accurate of our specimen — and far more attractive therefore on 

 account of its unusual character — in other respects the report is 

 very satisfactory, and especially as regards its size and abundance. 

 It should be exported freely, and a good result could be confidently 

 expected. 



Reports have just reached me that the wood has been largely used, 

 with most satisfactory results, for making aeroplane propellers. For 

 this work, however, the bright yellow variety has been chosen as being 

 preferable. As a wood suitable for this purpose must of necessity possess 

 the highest possible standing qualities, this report places T. hialata on 

 a very high plane. After being thoroughly seasoned it would be suitable 

 for any work which requires wood which shall stand well without warping 

 or twisting. 



" The pores are very scanty, large, frequently subdivided, joined 

 by irregular, wavy, concentric bands of soft, loose, cellular tissue. Fine 

 equidistant, uniform medullary rays are distinctly visible in the harder 

 and darker portions between the bands, and on the radial section where 

 too the pores are prominent " (Gamble). 



