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and in considerable demand for building Chinese Coffins and 

 such purposes. Howard Newton says it bends easily and is useful 

 for planking vessels as it stands well in water and is buoyant. His 

 experiments show that it is stronger than Billian but not quite so 

 tough. 



Weight per cubic foot 39 lbs. 7 ozs. (Maingay), 46-42 lbs. 

 (Newton), specimen from Malacca 45 lbs 12 ozs., from Penang 47 

 lbs. 7 ozs. from Lingga 49 lbs. 14 ozs. 



A. integrifolia, Linn f. Jack. Nangka. 



A well known fruit tree, common round villages. It attains a 

 fairly large size, though not as big as some of the other species, and 

 branches rather low down usually. 



The heartwood is yellow at first becoming brown with age, pores 

 large scattered and in rows and surrounded by softer tissue, rays 

 fine and close lighter in colour than the intermediate tissue rings, 

 usually distinct. Sapwood large white soft and useless. 



The tree grows fast everywhere. Gamble gives the weight at 

 39.5 lbs. ; Brandis 40 lbs. per cubic foot ; Singapore 38 lbs. 1 5 ozs. to 

 35 lbs. 8 ozs. It is not eaten by whiteants. 



A good furniture wood for cabinets, tables etc., also used for 

 canoes in India. This wood is much in favour in Ceylon and In- 

 dia, but it appears to be very little used here although it might be 

 Had in considerable quantity and would be worth planting in 

 forests for its timber alone. Plants, however, planted out in forests 

 in Singapore were speedily destroyed by deer and mouse deer, 

 (pelandok) which like goats and cattle are remarkably fond of its 

 leaves. 



A. polyphemia.) Pers. Champedak. 



A well known fruit tree with smooth white cylindrical heads of 

 fruit, commonly cultivated and wild in many parts of the Peninsula 

 and Sumatra. When grown in open country it usually forms a 

 short stem and branches much low down as Jack is apt to, but in 

 the wild state in the denser forest form a tall straight tree, thirty 

 or forty feet tall, roughened with knots from which flowers and 

 fruits have sprung. 



The timber much resembles that of Jack, but the pores are 

 slightly larger and more numerous, the rays too are rather wider 

 and more irregular in width. Weight 37 lbs. 2 ozs. to 47 lbs. 7 ozs. 

 It is good for house building and also used for boats. 



A. ificisa, Linn. Breadfruit, Sukun. 

 Cultivated here, but does not seem to do very well, the tree 

 attaining no great size and the fruit being poor. The timber re- 

 sembles that of the Jack, but is not so good here at least. I have 

 seen very fine samples in Brazil where it was used for blades of 

 paddles and other purposes. 



A. rigida, Bl. Tampunei, Monkey Jack. 

 A well known fruit tree, with yellow globose fruits covered with 

 short blunt processes, the seed wrapped in a sweet yellow aril, very 



