or near the ground. Cultivated in the Botanic Gardens in stiff clay 

 it has retained this appearance though over 20 years old. In 

 Sarawak, near Mount Matang. and Santubong, it attains a very 

 considerable height with a bare stem and an irregular somewhat 

 flattened top quite resembling in outline a Scotch fir. It flowers 

 and fruits regularly in the Botanic Gardens. The slt-nder brownish 

 yellow catkins of the male are produced in abundance on the ends 

 of the deep green branchlets and give the tree a bright appearance. 

 It is a much handsomer plant than C. equisetifolia, but seems to be 

 very seldom cultivated as an ornamental plant. 



SOME TIMBER NOTES. 



Mussaendopsis Beccariana (Rubiacex) Malabera, a big tree over 

 100 feet tall about three feet through with obovate coriaceous deep 

 green leaves 6 inches long and nearly as wide, opposite. Panicles 

 6 inches or more long, peduncle 4 inches long, branches spreading 

 bearing lax cymes of small white flowers, one of each in which ha, 

 an obovate white calyx lobe as in Mussaenda fruit. 



This superb tree occurs in Singapore (Chan Chu Kang, RJWjW 

 1850), Perak, Goping, Kinta (Kings coll). I have also met with inn 

 the Kelantan river, fn Siak, Sumatra, and it is also recorded from 

 Borneo. It is, however, apparently not a very common tree. 



The timber as sent by Mr. BURN-MURDOCH is light fawn colour 

 with very numerous fine wavy rings, and very nume™u3^ ^ 

 the pores numerous, irregular and often in twos and tnrees 

 rings tolerably distinct but very irregular and rather close so tnau 

 may be judged to be a slow growing tree. Weight per cubic 

 54 lbs. 



The name Malbera is used in Malacca for the tree Fagrae* 

 fastigiata a very different tree. m 



Cumpassiaparvifolia (Legummos^.-Thc Tualang is a wel - IP 1 

 Borneo tree of great size, and specimens of wood and 

 Tulang of Selangor sent by Mr BURN-MURDOCH, seem to w j 

 to the same species. In habit the tree resembles much J* ^ 

 Kempas Cumpassia Malaccensis, but the leaves ar e muc f £. 

 The wood specimen sent is much closer grained than 1 

 Malaccensis and resembles the wood of Merebau. It is oar fey 

 rather large pores single double or in threes ; these are com ^ 

 wavy pale lines which frequently anastomose, and are u 

 up into short bits, the rays are very fine and very close, annu 

 not very conspicuous. 



The timber is heavy 66 lbs. a cubic foot. 



It is altogether a better class of timber than Kempas. ^ 

 Parashorea stellata {Dipterocarpeae) " Chengal.' — J ™ s ^ It 

 not seem to have been often collected, but perhaps ,s n ° f^tatt*** 

 occurs in Selangor and Perak, and is a tree 100 to 15 ^ ^ 

 a stem 4 or 5 feet through, the leaves are oblong acu 



