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used for beams, which can be had 5 or 6 inches square, used in 

 house building. 



Tamarindus indicus, L. Tamarind, Poko Assam. 



Often cultivated for its fruit, but seems here to thrive only near 

 the sea. It attains a large size. Wood yellowish white sometimes 

 with red streaks, heartwood darker brown, highly prized in India, 

 but difficult to work. Used for wheels, furniture, oil mills, sugar 

 mills, turning, etc. 



Weight, sapwood 61 to 63 lbs., heart-wood 80-83 lbs. (Gamble). 



Sindora Wallichiana. Benth. Saputi. 



A vast tree with flat spiny one or two seeded pods. Wood 

 light coloured yellowish, with rather small pores and fine rays. A 

 fairly good timber. Weight 42 lbs. 3 ozs. 



S. velutina, Baker. Saputi Jantan. 



A big tree, with pale lemon wood, coarse grained, hard, splits 

 deeply in drying, used for beams in houses. Weight 50 lbs. 8f ozs. 

 (Maingay.) 



S. coriacea, Prain. Saputi Minyak. 



This differs from the other species of the genus in having smooth 

 spineless pods. It is not very common but occurs in Penang and 

 Malacca. 



Wood hard and heavy light brown shining, pores rather large 

 scattered not very numerous, rays fine and close reddish coloured 

 showing on a longitudinal section as spots and bars. 



Weight 40 lbs. 12 ozs. (Maingay) S. 49 lbs. 6 ozs. A pretty 

 wood suited for building, furniture etc. 



The tree is said to produce an oil, which is used to mix with 

 minyak keruing. 



Afzelia. 



There are two species of this genus here, viz : A. palembanica, 

 Merabau and A. retusa, Kurz, Merabau, Bakau. 



The latter is a small tree often only a shrub which grows com- 

 monly along the sea-shore. It is too small to be of much use, the 

 wood, however, resembles that of A . palembanica, but is more 

 regular in grain and has much smaller pores. The tree is easily 

 recoginsed by there being never more than four leaftets on the leaf, 

 whereas the true Merabau has from 8 to 12. Weight 22 lbs. 8 ozs. 



A palembanica, Gray. Merabau. 



(The native name is often spelt in every conceivable way such 

 as Mirbow, Merbau, etc. and the Chinese sawyers have converted 

 it into K'labu). 



The tree attains a height of 100 to 1 50 feet or even more with 

 a diameter of 3 to 4 feet. Strong buttresses are produced at the 

 base in large trees. The bark is brown shedding in round flakes 

 in an irregular manner, often looking as if some one had been 

 bruising it with a round ended hammer. 



When felled it shoots up again from the base, even if the tree 



