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upwards. Wood exceedingly hard and compact, heavy, close 

 grained dark red, rays very fine, pores very small and not very 

 numerous arranged in clusters and short lines. Very durable, a 

 useful tree for hill regions. Weight 76 lbs. 14 ozs. 



Psidium guava, L. Guava. 



This well known fruit tree, has pale brown close-grained wood 

 with very small pores connected more or less by transverse bars 

 of softer tissue, and arranged also in rows often partitioned, nume- 

 rous, and rather broad rays. Weight 44 lbs. (Wallich), 42 lbs. 

 (Gamble), 47 lbs. (Skinner). 



Though small used for wood engraving, spear handles and other 

 purposes in India and Java. 



Decaspermum paniculatum, Kurz. Kelintek Nyamok. 



A small common tree, with large bunches of white flowers. 

 Wood dull dirty white, grain fine hard splits deeply in drying. 

 Weight 49 lbs. 1 3 4 ozs., 53 lbs. I oz. (Maingay). 



Used for building in Java. 



Tristania. Pulawan. 



There are two or three species of this genus here, usuallv occur- 

 ring on the hills. They are readily recognized by their peculiar 

 red bark which peels off in long thin flakes forming a large pile at 

 the foot of the tree. The stem of the tree appearing meanwhile 

 perfectly smooth. The only other tree which does this here is 

 Cratoxylon poly ant hum. 



The leaves are narrow and the flowers are usually white or green 

 in large corymbs, and often having a most unpleasant odour. 



T. Whitiana, Griff. 



Is an inhabitant of sandy spots near the sea, very common round 

 the coasts of Singapore, etc. The wood is dark brown hard and 

 heavy with very fine rays and rather large but few pores. Although 

 the tree is not large, it gives very good straight beams and posts 

 of fair size and is very durable. Weight 57 lbs. 8 ozs. 



T. merguensis } Griff. 



Is a very similar tree with broader leaves, which have a gray 

 appearance in mass. It is very abundant in the hill districts in 

 many places at about 2,000 feet altitude and upwards to about 

 4,000 feet. The wood is darker and redder in colour than that of 

 T. Whitiana and the fibres are more waved, as a rule. It is one of 

 the few good timbers to be met with at any elevation and is useful 

 for building houses, etc. in hill stations. Weight 71 lbs. 14 ozs. 



Eugenia, is a very strongly represented genus here as indeed 

 it is in almost all tropical countries. The flowers vary in size, from 

 two inches across in the section Jambosa, to J or less in the section 

 Sizy^ium. They have usually small and fugacious petals, and lono- 

 and very numerous stamens white, pink or rarely green. The fruit 

 is sometimes as large as a pear, or it may be as small as a pea. It 

 is often eatable, and two or three species. E. /ua/accensis, E.jam- 



