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drying, used for blocks, for boat rigging, etc. Weight 51 lbs. ij ozs. 

 (Maingay) a fairly common tree. 



C. Kadondon, Benn. Kadondong Hutan. 



Wood dull white becoming reddish white internally, grain very 

 coarse soft splits slightly. Weight 30 lbs 15 ozs. (Maingay.) 



Safitiria laxa, King. Rau. 



A tree about 30 feet tall with pendent racemes of large pink 

 fruit. 



Wood dirty white, yellowish white, grain coarse soft brittle splits 

 in drying, weight 49 lbs 10 ozs., (Maingay). Used in building 

 but not durable. 



S. laevigata, BL Kerantei Merah. 



A fairly large tree. Wood fairly heavy light brownish colour, 

 rays very fine and close, rings fairly distinct, pores small, numer- 

 ous, crowded and more numerous in the rings. 



A good wood used for furniture and for gunstocks. Weight 

 67 lbs. 4 ozs. 



S. fasciculata, Benn. Kerantei Batu. 



A medium-sized tree. 



Is used for building, but not very good. 



S. apiculata, Benn. Kerantei. 



Wood dirty white, grain medium fairly hard does not split in 

 drying. Used for gunstocks. 



Weight 42 lbs. 4! ozs. (Maingay.) 



Trigonochlamys Grijjithii, Hook. fil. Kadondong Mata hari, 

 Kijai, Kumpas Ruman. 



A fairly large tree 70 feet tall. Wood dark yellow or red " yel- 

 lowish white, grain medium fairly hard does not split," durable. 

 Weight 52 lbs. 2 ozs. (Maingay.) 

 Used in house building. 

 Said to produce a scented dam mar. 



Meliace^. 



Sandoricum indicum, L. Sentol. 



A large tree, attaining a height of 70 feet and diimeter 2 feet. 

 Fast growing, cultivated for its fruit. 



Wood soft and white, yellowish tinted, rings rather obscure, 

 rays moderately thick, pores large. Gamble describes it as having 

 a gray sapwood and red heartwood moderately hard, takes a 

 beautiful polish, rays fine undulating marked on a radial section as 

 long narrow bands giving the wood a beautifully mottled ap- 

 pearance. But it is a much poorer wood here. It is used in house 

 building in Java (Van Eeden), here chiefly for wooden clogs, and 

 such work as Jelutong and Sendol<-sendok are used. In Burmah 

 for carts and boat building. Weight 30 lbs. 6 ozs. (Maingay). 36 lbs. 

 (Gamble) S. 27 lbs 13 ozs. to 35 lbs. 9 ozs. 



