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Alstonia scholavis, R. Br. Pulai. 



A tall tree with grey bark and straight boughs at right angles to 

 the trunk arranged in a whorl. The leaves are smaller than those 

 of the Jelutong. 



The flowers are green, the pods long and cylindrical, narrow, 

 with plumed seeds. 



The milky latex is only used for bird catching. 



The wood is soft and white much like that of Jelutong but 

 lighter, weight 20 lbs. 13 ozs. It is seldom used for anything, but 

 the tree throws up knee shaped roots through the ground, which 

 being very light are cut into as floats fo.r nets. The bark known 

 as Dita bark is bitter and is used as a tonic in India. It contains 

 an alkaloid known as Ditaine. 



A. august ifolia y Wall. 



A medium sized tree, common in the Southern woods. 



Wood pale brown fine grained rather light and soft, pores very 

 numerous mediocre close, rays unequal some fairly large, concen- 

 tric lines fine and close. 



Tabernse montana corymbosa, Roxb. Restong Badak. 

 A tree 20 to 30 feet tall but often smaller. Has a soft white 

 wood rather light with very fine broken up rays and very small 

 pores. 



LOGANIACE/E. 



'I he only important genus of timber trees is that of Fagrcea, 

 which contains a few fair sized to large trees besides some shrubs 

 and climbers. The most important is — 



Fagroea fragraus, Roxb., Cyrtophyllum fragraus, Bl , Tembusu. 



A large tree attaining a height of 60 feet and a diameter of one 

 to two feet with thick deeply grooved bark, narrow lanceolate 

 leaves, and corymbs of rather small yellow flowers, followed by 

 small red berries. It grows in open country often near the sea. 

 The wood is yellowish white hard, compact and very durable, there 

 is no sapwood, the wood being nearly as hard all through to the 

 bark. The rings are fairly distinct and close, rays very fine, with 

 concentrics close rather broad and pale, pores few. Weight 39 lbs., 

 43 lbs. 10 ozs., 63 lbs. 15 ozs. 



The wood is very durable untouched by white-ants and fungus, 

 and lasts long in the ground. 



Its growth is fast considering the density of the wood. It is 

 readily raised from seed, and grows well in open country, but is 

 seldom to be met with in forest. In the sandy country in Pahang, 

 Province Wellesley, Perak, Singapore, it grows well and of good 

 size. 



F. speciosa, Bl. 



Tembusu bukit, Tembusu Tembaga Tembusu Talang and Tem- 

 busu Paya. 



This is a very much larger tree than the preceding attaining a 

 height of 80 feet or more, and a diameter of five feet. The bark is 



