AGRICULTURAL BULLETIN 



OF THE 



STRAITS 



AND 



FEDERATED MALAY STATES, 



No. 3.] DECEMBER, 1901. [Vol. I. 



THE TIMBERS OF THE MALAY PENINSULA. 



Continued. 



LlNE^E. 



Erythroxylum burmanicum, Griff. Medang Lagundi, 

 Chintah Mulah. 



A common tree in sandy spots near the coast, usually about 20 

 or 30 feet tall but attaining a great height, rather bushy with small 

 dark green leaves. Flowers small greenish, fruit a small red 

 drupe. Bark wrinkled, fissured and corky, grey, wood heavy and 

 compact dark red or brown with distinct but irregular rings, rays 

 very fine and numerous, pores copious and small. Weight 57 lbs. 

 It gives a good ordinary building timber, though not often very 

 large, but beams squaring 5 or 6 inches can be obtained. 



I xonanthes icosandra, Jack. Pagar Anak. 



A straight tree 50 or 60 feet tall with coriaceous leaves, cymes 

 ot green flowers, on long peduncles and capsular fruit with winged 

 seeds. Common in woods all over the Peninsula. Bark thin \ 

 inch thick, sapwood scanty, heartwood pale brown to reddish 

 brown, heavy and fairly hard, rings fairly distinct narrow and 

 irregular, rays very numerous close and fine, pores very numerous 

 and small, in short irregular lines, concentric lines fine wavy 

 broken up. A good building wood, but is apt to split in drying. 

 Beams 5 to 6 inches square can be obtained. 



Weight 59 lbs. j\ ozs., 55 lbs. 6ozs. (Maingay) ; Singapore 54 lbs. 



/. reticulata, Jack. Jinjagong (Maingay). 



An equally large tree with rounder leaves and much larger 

 capsules, occurs in woods usually at a higher elevation, up to 3,000 

 feet. The wood is fairly heavy, white (brownish olive or dirty) 

 white with brownish striae. (Maingay), pores rather large. 



Good for building. Weight 42 lbs. 10J ozs. to 48 lbs. 4 ozs. 

 Maingay), common in the low country and also on the hills to 

 3,000 feet altitude, Singapore to Kedah. 



