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Use, but according to Maingay used for trenails in shipbuilding. 

 Weight 54 lbs. 4 ozs. S. 50 lbs. 4 ozs. 



My r sine cap itel lata. Wall. 



A small tree common on sea coasts, and in the hill regions. 



Wood close grained, Whitish fawn coloured dose grained, pores 

 very numerous crowded, rays fine, rings obscure. Weight 47 lbs. 

 4 ozs. 



sEgiceras corniculata, Blanco. 



A small tree or shrub in the Mangroves with light pale coloured 

 close grained wood, no rings and very small pores chiefly used for 

 firewood. 



Sapotacece. 



A large order, exclusively trees including several important 

 timber trees and all the gutta producing trees, almost all the 

 species contain a milky latex which contains a certain amount of 

 Gutta but only a few are valuable. 



Chrysophyllum Roxhurghii, Don. 



A tall tree with small leaves, and a globular angled fruit about 

 an inch long conta'ning much gutta which, however, is of little 

 value. The fruits are eaten in India. There is a considerable 

 difference between the Malay tree and the Indian one, and they 

 may be distinct species. 



The tree has a straight smooth stem with grey bark, and no 

 buttresses. It attains a height of about 6 j or 80 feet and a dia- 

 meter of two feet. The wood is light coloured and soft with large 

 pores in rows and somewhat distant rays. 



It is used in building in India, and for kris scabbards here ac- 

 cording to Maingay who gives the weight as 43 lbs. 4J ozs., Singa- 

 pore 39 lbs. 6 ozs. 



Sideroxylon ferrugineum, Hook. Tuak-Tuak. 



A small sea shore tree with stiff dark green leaves coppery 

 beneath. 



The wood is hard and heavy pinkish brown in colour with very 

 fine rays, and wavy concentric lines, the pores are arranged in 

 wavy lines radiating from the centre whiter than the ground co- 

 lour and giving the wood a pleasing mottled appearance. Weight 

 57 lbs - 



Dichopsis oblongifolla, Getah Taban Merah. 



This and the closely allied D. gutta, Benth., give the best Gutta 

 percha. The tree attains a height of about sixty feet, and a dia- 

 meter of 2 feet. It is seldom much branched, and is not, as a 

 rule, a very leafy tree. The growth is slow. The tree is easily 

 recognized by its lanceolate dark green le ives golden on the bac k 

 and very finely nerved, and by the gutta which is produced from 

 all parts. 



The wood is light brown, the ground colour grey in section, the 

 rays and concentric lines which are rather distant red, the pores 



