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hard and heavy, the rings line and distinct, the pores numerous. 

 Weight 53 lbs. 



This plant with its wood was sent to me from Tampin as Resak, 

 but it is not what is commonly known as Resak in Johore and 

 elsewhere, although the timber is very similar. It has never been 

 met with elsewhere. 



S/i. gratis* ima, Dyer. 



Tree rather smaller than most of the Serayahs. Leaves small 

 2 to 3 inches long, ovate blunt quite glabrous, coriaceous, polished. 

 Flowers small white secund with a pubescent calyx. Fruit small, 

 wings narrow 2.V inch long, J inch wide. Not a very common tree 

 here. I have only met with it in Singapore. 



The wood is said to be cross-grained, the heart- wood brown, 

 very hard. 



HOPEA. 



The trees of this genus resemble the Shoreas, but the flowers 

 are usually much smaller and there are only two long wings to the 

 fruit instead of three. 



About eight species are known from the Peninsula. 



H. intermedia, King. Jankang, Merawan Kunyit, Mengarawan. 



A very tall straight tree attaining a height of ioo feet and a 

 diameter of 6 feet, the bark is brown and conspicuously longitudi- 

 nally furrowed. The leaves are ovate, lanceolate, caudate, perfectly 

 smooth above and very close veined beneath. The flowers small, 

 the fruit is small with red oblanceolate wings with about 7 veins 

 and \\ inch long. A dark brown rather coarse wood, with rather 

 large pores, and fine but obscure rays. A peculiarity of this wood 

 is that the rings are often marked out with irregular thin white 

 lines. These consist of lines of pores filled up with solid damar. 

 This gives the wood in transverse section an appearence of having 

 white threads through it whence it is sometimes known as Meranti 

 sutra. Weight 45 lbs., 37 lbs. 2 ozs. 



Merawan is generally considered as an inferior Serayah and 

 used for the same purposes. A good deal of the common planking 

 sold as Serayah, appears to be Merawan. The tree is very com- 

 mon all over the plain country. 



Anisoptera. 



There are several species of this genus in the Malay Peninsula. 

 All are gigantic trees resembling Shoreas, but distinguished by the 

 fruit which has the calyx tube adhering to it, so that the two wings 

 appear to rise from the top instead of from the bottom of the fruit. 



A. Curtisiiy Dyer. Rengkong. 



Has narrow oblong leaves tapering to both ends and covered 

 with yellow scales beneath, especially conspicuous when dry. 



1 he wood is of a light yellowish colour, with rather large pores 

 and very fine close rays; rings tolerably regular but not very dis- 



