with rather strong ribs, and about 4 inches long, the flowers dirty 

 pale yellow with a silvery calyx. 



The timber is fairly good of the Serayah class of timber light 

 brown and rather light in weight, and by no means hard, pores 

 extremely numerous and close medullary rays very numerous, close 

 and fine annual rings very conspicuous and regular, pores very much 

 more numerous in the period of rapid growth. Weight 50 lbs. per 

 cubic foot. 



Shorea glauca, « Balau."— This timber now called Balau is not 

 the original timber of that name which is P armarium oblongifolium 

 though it is constantly sent under this name from the Rumpin River 

 in Pahang whence the original Balau was derived. The genuine 

 Balau is now, it seems, quite a rare tree. I have occasionally come 

 across it in Singapore, Johor and elsewhere, it is easily recognized 

 by its large leaves white beneath. 



The tree having been almost exterminated, this timber {Shorea 

 glauca) very inferior has been substituted. It is dark brown in colour 

 and heavy with numerous crowded small pores, and close fine rays, 

 n fact it much resembles the genuine Damar Laut {Shorea utilis). 

 11 is a g 00( i timber but for durability cannot be compared with the 

 ori gmal timber known as Balau. Weight 69 lbs. per cubic foot. 



lumnitzera coccinea the Teruntum, {Combretacese). Mr. BURN- 



LRDOc H sends a good sample of this closegrained pale fawn 

 coloured wood. The tree is conspicuous in the mangrove swamps 

 fr °™ tufts of brilliant red flowers. 



Teruntum is a good useful wood being fairly strong and heavy. 



»s, however, rather liable to split. Weight 58 lbs. per cubic foot. 

 th^TM? ° r Betis ' D 'irtopsis sp.— This has already been described in 

 Umh r Mn B URN-MURDOCH sends another specimen of the 

 oer ot really first class quality, a fine dark brown red heavy wood 

 ver > '° m Pact, the pores very small in short rows, the transverse rings 



> n ne and close and wavy. Weight 72 lbs. per cubic foot. 



H. N. RIDLEY. 



RUBBER INDUSTRY. 



THE F. M. S. vs. CEYLON. 

 Mr - H. K. Rutherford's Opinion. 

 date's K " J RUTHERFORD returned to Ceylon from the Federated 

 month T c ays a S°> and will stay in the Isle of Spices about a 

 pfODertw. r going to the F. M. S. he visited the low- country 

 .Wre^f ° f the C - T. P. Co. and other companies in which he is 

 ones. \y a " d on present occasion will inspect the upcountry 

 ^Htftur b e P revi °usly described the prominence of Mr. 

 *ORD , n Ceylon's and F. M. S. planting annals and his 



