AGRICULTURAL BULLETIN 



OF THE 



STRAITS 



AND 



FEDERATED MALAY STATES. 



No. 6.] MARCH, 1902. [Vol. 1. 



THE TIMBERS OF THE MALAY PENINSULA. 



Continued. 



RUBIACE/E. 



A large order containing but few large trees and none of any 

 vast size, and of these few are large enough to give timber big 

 enough for beams. The wood is usually yellow or white seldom 

 red or dark brown. 



Sarcocephalus Junghuhnit, Miq. Mangel, Chermin Ayer. 



A fairly Urge tree with rounded opposite leaves and flowers in 

 balls, yellow sweet-scented, about 30 or 40 feet tall and about a foot 

 through, with rather thick bark. The wood is fairly heavy bright 

 yellow when fresh turning brown, not very hard. The sapwood 

 not very distinct. Pores large and small mixed, rays very close 

 and fine, rings fairly distinct and regular narrow and almost pore- 

 less. Weight 40 lbs. 8 ozs. 



A good ordinary building wood, durable. 



Adina rub esc ens, Hemsley, Berombong. 



A fairly large tree about 60 feet tall and \\ to 2 feet through 

 remarkable for the stem being irregularly perforated for some depth. 

 Leaves small, flowers in small heads, bark \ inch thick grey, sap- 

 wood at first pink fairly hard. Heartwood yellow, with distinct 

 rings, rays very fine and close, pores mediocre scattered irregularly. 



A hard and heavy wood excellent for building but the irregular 

 depressions in the trunk make it difficult to get good beams. If 

 good it is said to last 20 or years in the ground. Weight 46 lbs. 

 5 ozs. to 49 lbs. 8 ozs. 



U ncaria. 



This genus of climbers is very well represented here, the»best 

 known being the Gambir, Uncaria gambir. Some of the other 

 species are lianrs of great size with very hard wood for lianes of a 

 very curious structure dark brown in colour with very large pores 

 partly full of some white substance. 



