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The wood is fairly heavy yellowish brown with a very curious 

 structure, the rays are very broad and connected with cross bars. 

 Weight 32 lbs. It resembles that of some of the Anonaceae. 



It is used for rafters and house work. 



P. axillaris, Korth. 



A common tree of no great size with soft light whitish wood, 

 with broad rays and very numerous close pores. Weight 26 lbs. 



Gynotroches axillaris, Bl. Mata Keli. 



A small tree very common in secondary woods with stiff deep 

 green leaves and small white flowers and red and black drupes in 

 clusters. The wood has broad conspicuous rays and very fine 

 transverse bars, and the pores are very numerous and close. The 

 colour is light brownish and it is rather soft. 



Used for house-work, rafters, etc. according to Maingay, also 

 for blades of oars. It is considered good for house posts by Malays. 

 Weight 41 lbs. 1 1 ^ ozs. (Maingay), S. 40 lbs. 5 ozs. 



Combretacese. 



Contains only two genera of importance, viz. Terminalia and 

 Lumnitzera. 



1 here are about six species of Terminalia in the Peninsula but 

 some are by no means common, among which are T. belerica, Roxb. 

 a tree with soft wood producing one of the myrobalans exported 

 from India for dyeing and T. citrina, Flem. with a hard grey wood 

 used for planking in Assam, which has been met with in Malacca 

 and elsewhere. T. Catappa, L. Katapang is a common sea-shore 

 tree often planted along road sides. The wood is fairly hard red 

 or yellow with a good deal of white sapwood, rings fairly distinct 

 and large, pores large, rays fine. It is sometimes used for house 

 and boat building, and is considered good. Weight 26 lbs. 6 ozs. 



Lumnitzera coccinea, W. & A. 



A tall straight tree attaining a height of about 40 feet and a 

 diameter of feet with rough bark, small oblanceolate leaves and 

 bunches of scarlet flowers. The wood is yellowish brown fine 

 grained glassy with fairly distinct irregular rings, small pores in 

 rows parallel to the fine broken up rays. Weight 59 lbs. 7 ozs. 



The tree is common in mangrove swamps, all over the Peninsula 

 and its wood is used for axles of carts and such like work-. 



Myrtacese. 



This is a very extensive order consisting almost entirely of trees 

 or large shrubs. It contains here several genera all agreeing in 

 having white or pink flowers with innumerable stamens, small 

 petals and an inferior ovary, and nearly all can be distinguished in 

 leaf, by their possessing a nerve running along each side of the leaf 

 close to the margin. None of them attain to the vast size of many 

 of our forest trees but many are big enough to supply large beams, 

 the timber of which is often very good. 



The important genera here are Melaleuca, Rhodamnia, Tristania 

 and Eugenia. 



