PREFACE. 
Siam owes its richness of woody plants to the 
beneficial influence of moisture and high temperature. 
In Europe and the Northern part of Asia the forests may 
be named after certain kinds of trees growing socially 
to-gether in large groups or forming extensive forests 
for many miles. Though this fact can be met with also 
in Siam, the most forests consist of hundreds of species, 
the names of which are almost impossible to be kept in 
ones memory. I have counted in the museum at Bangkok 
not less than 600 specimens of wood, half of which differ 
in kind. 
In the present work I am indeavouring to furnish 
some information regarding Siamese timber. I have 
quoted from and referred to the following authorities :— 
W. Roxburgh : Flora Indica. 
J. S. Gamble: A Manual on Indian Timbers. 
Chow Phya Montri : Specimens of trees growing in the forests of the 
Siracha Co. ( p.p. 35-62 ). 
Statistic of Import and Export by H. M. Customs. 
