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rows, the rays are very tine mixed with some larger ones, and 

 there are numerous small transverse bars. 



It is used in India for carts, cabinet work and house building. 

 Its weight averages from 41 lbs. (Maingay) to 60 (Gamble) S. 53 

 lbs. 13 ozs. 



M. Kauki, L. San. 



A medium sized tree cultivated at Malacca chiefly for its fruit. 

 The wood is valued for Chinese coffins, but it is difficult to get 

 large trees and it is not common. 



Unidentified Sapotnceous timber are S'marum a wood much 

 resembling Johore Niato but darker. It is used for planking. 

 Weight 5 I lbs. 3 ozs. 



Daru. 



A fairly large tree producing a hard and heavy wood somewhat 

 resembling Balau. It is yellow in colour with numerous fine dis- 

 tant rays paler than the darker ground with large scattered pores. 

 It has an aromatic odour when cut due to a resin. Weight 37 lbs. 

 4 ozs; a specimen from Lingga, 65 lbs. 14 ozs. HOWARD NEWTON, 

 says that it could be got from 6 to 12 inches square and from 20 

 to 30 feet long. However the demand for it has been so great 

 that it is with difficulty procurable now at anything like that size, 

 although the tree has no sapwood, and is good all through. It 

 seems to be a native of Sumatra chiefly, I have never seen it in the 

 Peninsula, Newton gives it as of the genus apodytes, [Oiacinese) 

 but this is an error it is certainly Sapotaceous. 



EBENACE^E. 



More than one tree here produces ebony. (Kayu Arang) among 

 which are Diospyrus microphylla , a big tree with small leaves, and 

 D. clavigera, Clarke, a plant allied to the true Ebony of India I), 

 ebenum. The ebony is only the heartwood of the tree, which con- 

 tains a large amount of white or brown sapwood, so that a tree 

 must be full grown before much ebony is to be obtained from it. 



In D. clavigera, the sapwood is brown, the heartwood black and 

 very hard and heavy, a cubic foot weighting 80 lbs. 15 ozs. 



The pores are few small and scatteied, sometimes divided, the 

 rays are fine and numerous, and there are very many short trans- 

 verse bars, giving the wood a very distinct appearance. Apart 

 from the ebony heartwood this is a good and strong wood. Weight 

 51 lbs. 



D. lucida, Wall and D. microphylla, have very similar wood 

 rather darker coloured. 



The ebony produced by these trees is very hard, though rather 

 brittle, deep black and heavy, very compact so that the rays and 

 pores are almost invisible. A sample from Malacca weighed 56 lbs. 

 4 ozs. and one from the sawmills of Johor 69 lbs. :2 ozs. Ebony is 

 obtained in the Dindings, Johor, and Malacca. 



Styracese. 



A small order of trees and shrubs. 



