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Symp locos fasciculata , Zoll. 



A common small tree attaining a height of about twenty feet 

 and a diameter of i| feet with grey bark. The wood is rather soft 

 and white with very numerous pores and rather thick distant rays. 

 Though by no means a first class wood it is suited for small work 

 such as ornamental cabinet making, soft carvings, etc., and is also 

 used in building. 



Weight 28 lbs. 1 1 ozs. to 33 lbs. 



The other species e.g. S: ferruginea, Roxb. very much resemble 

 it in wood structure. 



Styrax Benzoin, L. Gum Benjamin. Kemeniyan. 



A tree about thirty to fifty feet tall with smooth grey bark, the 

 leaves ovate lanceolate rather thin, light green above and white 

 beneath. Flowers white very sweet-scented, fruit rounded hard 

 greenish gray. 



The wood is light brown moderately heavy but rather soft, the 

 pores are rather large arranged in twos and threes, the rays in 

 section are fine and red rather distant. Weight 34 lbs. 



The wood of this tree is of little value, though it is occasionally 

 used in house building and for bridges. The tree, however, pro- 

 duces the Penang Gum Benjamin which is much used in incense. 

 The gum is obtained by making incisions in the bark, when after a 

 few weeks the gum is exuded usually in a crystalline form. No 

 trum exudes on first cutting the tree, nor have the bark or wood 

 any odour of incense even when burnt. Gum Benjamin is not ex- 

 tensively collected in the Peninsula common as the tree is. 



Apocynaceoe. 



This group consists chiefly of creepers, with a few trees some 

 of large size. All contain a milky latex often rich in rubber, 

 among which of importance are the rubber vines, Willughbeia , 

 Lf uconotis, Melodinus, Urceola and Parameria , which supply the 

 rubbers known as Getah Grip, Getah Susu and the like, in this coun- 

 try and the Landolphias of Africa. 



Dyera costulata, Hook fil. Jelutong. 



A big tree attaining a height of 200 feet and a diameter of 3 or 

 more with grey bark, containing much milk like latex. Leaves, six 

 to eight in a whorl. 



The flowers are small and white. The fruit a large double pod, 

 woody, which splits along the upper surface and discloses many 

 thin flat seeds with a wing surrounding them. 



The wood is white and soft with large pores rather few in num- 

 ber with fairly close rays. Weight 22 lbs. to 37 lbs. 



It is used for making clogs, and also for planking, boxes etc., 

 also for models and such work. It is fairly easy to work, but is 

 soft and not very durable. However, it is coming more into fa- 

 vour, and may be considered as good as ordinary serayah for house 

 work. 



Jelutong pipit is a much harder wood and is less wooly to the 

 saw than ordinary Jelutong. Weight 29 lbs. 6 ozs. to 36 lbs. 



