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Flowers small violet. Drupes black. 



Wood yellowish white hard and heavy with distinct rings, rays 

 line and close. 



It does not split in drying. Weight 51 lbs. 4 ozs. to 54 lbs. 6 ozs. 

 (Maingay), according to Gamble from 51 lbs. to 59 lbs., S. 45 lbs. 

 1 1 ozs. to 49 lbs. 8 ozs. 



A good useful wood for buildings, boats, ploughs, wagon wheels 

 and such work. 



V. vest it a, Wall. " Leban nasi. " 



A medium or small tree with trifoliate leaves and small yellow 

 flowers, common in woods, attains a height of 30 or more feet. 



Wood light whitish fawn with distinct rings, rays fine and 

 numerous, small pores. Weight 32 lbs. 10 ozs. 



Used for building, for rafters and firewood, but very inferior to 

 the preceding. 



CLERODENDRON. 



A small number of shrubs some hardly woody the only arbore- 

 ous one is 



C. disparifolium } Bl. 



About 15 to 20 feet tall rather slender, flowers yellow, fruit 

 black surrounded by the red calyx lobes. Wood white rather 

 light rays, variable reddish pores, scattered. Too small to be of 

 much use. It is one of the woods used by natives for blackening 

 their teeth. Weight 35 lbs. 12 ozs. 



Pet-one ma canescens, Jack. 



A large shrub or fairly large tree about 40 feet tall, with pinnate 

 leaves, large panicles of white flowers. Usually to be met with 

 along river banks and damp spots. Wood white light but fairly 

 hard, rings distinct, rays distant rather fine, rings distinct marked 

 with a close continuous line of pores. Pores large often partition- 

 ed few. Weight 30 lbs. 



Used for house posts in Java (Van Eeden.) This tree is one of 

 the few here which regularly sheds its leaves. 



Gmelina villosa, Roxb. Bulangan. 



A shrub treelet. Flowers large yellow. Open places near the 

 sea wood brown light and soft, with rather large rays, rings visible 

 but not distinct, pores mediocre to small often partitioned, arranged 

 in small groups, of no use. 



Avicennia officinal is , L. Api-Api. 



A medium sized tree common in mangrove swamps with small 

 yellow flowers. 



The structure of the wood is very curious, it is of a light brown 

 or grey colour rather hard and heavy, of concentric layers often 

 broken up and rather large the inner portion dark coloured with 

 fairly large pores, outer portion softer and lighter with larger pores 

 in rows, rays very fine and close. Weight (Gamble) 58 lbs., S. 51 

 lbs. 3 ozs Only used here for firewood as its name implies, and 



