100 OF WOOD m GENERAL 



and Saghalien Fir {A, sachalinensis Masters) are the cheapest, and 

 Hi-no-M {Gwpressus obtusa Koch) and Ke-ya-ki {Zelkowa acuminata 

 Planchon) are the most expensive. 



India.— Taking British India as 480 milMon acres, 40 miUions, 

 or one-twelfth of the whole area, are forest. In spite, however, of 

 the enormous local consumption for fuel and the increasing demand 

 for railway-sleepers, India produces such a variety of valuable 

 ornamental and dense hardwoods that conservation is hkely to 

 enable her long to continue her exportation. Of some 2,500 species 

 of timbers described from India the fourteen most important are 

 Teak, Sal, Deodar, Sissoo, Babul, Juniper, Kheir, Blackwood, 

 Sandalwood, Red Sanders, Pyengado, Nahor, Anjan, and Mahwa. 

 In 1899-1900 she exported Teak to the value of over £600,000, 

 besides Blackwood, Padouk, Satinwood, Ebony, and Sandalwood ; 

 but her supply of cheap softwood for tea-chests, etc., is hardly equal 

 to the demand. At the same time many of her ornamental furniture 

 woods might well be more largely used in Europe, especially Iron- 

 wood, Saj, Toon, Thingan, and Eng. 



Such woods as Pynkadoo {Xylia dolabriformis), Kranji [Didlium 

 indum), and Tampinnis {Sloetia sideroxylon), in the Malay Pen- 

 insula, the Lauan {Difterocdrpus thurifer) and Acle {Xylia dolabri- 

 Jormis) of the Philippines, and the Rassak {Vdtica Rdssah), Bilhan 

 {Eusideroxylon Zwdgeri), and Compass {Koempdssia malaccensis) of 

 Borneo, may well prove worthy of European attention, especially 

 for density and durabihty, when they become better known, and 

 the supply of them may be said to be as yet untapped. 



Among 200 species thought worthy of trial in the arsenal at 

 Manila, the essentially Malayan flora of the Philippines includes : 



Acle {Xylia dolabriformis), 



Banaba {Lagerstrdemia Flos-Begince), 



Betis {Payma Betis), 



Bolongnita {Diospyros pilosdnthera), 



Cedar {Gedrela Toona)^ 



Dougon {Sterculia cymbiformis), 



Guijo {Shorea robusta), 



Ipel {Afzilia bijuga), 



Lauan {Dipterocdrpus thurifer), 



Mangachapoi {Shorea Mangdchapoi), 



Molave {Vitex geniculdtus and 7. altissima), 



Narra {Pterocdrpus pdllidus and P. santalinus), 



Padouk {Pterocdrpus indicus), 



Palo Maria {Calophyllum Inophyllum), and 



Yacal {Shorea reticulata). 



