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Pentacme malayana, King " Temah Batu". 



A straggling much branched tree of no great size about fifty feet 

 tall with very thick brown bark nearly an inch through, rough and 

 longitudinally ridged leaves rounded ovate, or elliptic. 



Flowers rather large § of an inch across white with spreading 

 petals, produced in the dry season when the tree is nearly leafless 

 in few flowered panicles. 



Fruit red ovate, the three outer calyxlobes enlarged and recticu- 

 late 4 inches long, the two minor ones narrower, 2 inches long. 



Sapwood and heartwood distinct, the former yellowish fairly hard. 

 Heartwood hard and close deep brown, rings large and distinct, 

 medullary rays very fine and numerous. Pores numerous. Weight 

 70 lbs. 3 ozs. 



Lankawi Islands. This curious tree grows on limestone rocks 

 above the sea. It is rather irregular in habit and would in most 

 places be difficult to get good beams of. The timber resembles, 

 however Damar laut, and would evidently be of first class quality 

 if procurable in quantity and of good size. The allied P. siamensis 

 is said to give a highly prized and durable wood. CP ; erre rlor a for 

 Cochin-china (Gamble). 



Balanocarpus. — In this genus, the "Chengei" ol the Malays, the 

 fruit is a globose or conical nut, enclosed at the base in a cup 

 formed of the enlarged calyx, something like that of an acorn, and 

 with no wings. The trees are usually large, sometimes gigantic. 



The Chengeis are as regards the timber all very much alike, hard 

 and yellow when fresh cut turning eventually dark brown. 



Chengei Tandok, is a very large tree, the timber of which is very 

 close grained and fairly heavy, the pores very numerous and close 

 rather large, and usually contain much resin, the rays are darker 

 than the woody fibres, close and conspicuous. It is a, very good 

 timber, for beams, machinery work, boats, etc., I met with it in the 

 Dindings. 



Weight 49 lbs. 8 ozs. to 56 lbs. 6 ozs. 



The Chengei of Province Wellesley is Balanocarpus Hcimii, 

 King., and Wray says that B. Wrayi, King, of Perak is known 

 there as Chingi or Chingal. 



B. pinangianus, King. Damar hitam. 



Is a big tree about 60 or 70 feet tall, about 18 inches through, 

 occurring in Penang and Perak. 



The wood is fairly heavy but rather loose in texture for the genus, 

 the pores are medium size, and the rays very irregular. It is of the 

 same yellowish colour when fresh cut as are many of the other 

 Chengei?. 



Weight 4 lbs. 3 ozs. 



B. maxim us. King. Penak, Chengai. 



A vast tree growing chiefly on the hill ranges of Selangor, and 

 also in Johore. It has stiff oblong or ell'ptic leaves. The bark is 

 very thick nearly an inch through and corky. The fruit is about 2 

 inches long cylindric, the sepals forming a toothed cup at the base. 



