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good to eat. The tree attains a great size and is of fairly rapid 

 growth, with deep green foliage very ornamental. 



The heartwood is light brown, or orange red, dark coloured in 

 transverse section, pores small, rays very fine with transverse bars 

 very fine connecting them. It is fairly heavy. 



Used for building and furniture. 



Weight (Maingay) 39 lbs. 1 14 ozs. per cubic foot, Singapore 

 54 lbs. 



A. gomeziana, Wall. Tampang. 



A fair sized tree but smaller than a rtgida, fruit smooth and soft 

 subglobose two inches through green outside and pink within acid. 

 Common in many parts of the Peninsula timber dark brown with 

 fairly distinct rings and exceedingly numerous pores closely packed 

 and fairly large surrounded by a corky tissue rays very fine. 



Weight (Maingay) 50 lbs. if ozs. Singapore 49 lbs. 8 ozs. 



A good building wood. 



A. maingayi, King. Champedak Ayer. 

 A medium sized tree. 



Wood yellowish much like Jack, with scattered rays and unequal 

 pores. Weight 40 lbs. 14 ozs. 



Used in boat building and for beams. 



A low it, King. Miku. 

 A fairsized tree, not very abundant. 



Maingay under the name "Meyko" says wood a remarkable 

 clear gamboge colour, grain medium, fairly hard splits very slightly 

 in drying, used for the lid of Chinese Coffins. Weight 49 lbs. 1 1 ozs. 



A. Lakoocha, Roxb. 



A medium sized tree, not very common here. The wood resem- 

 bles that of the other species but is inferior to Jack, and Keledang. 



Gamble says, heartwood yellow hard, pores large enclosed in 

 rings of soft light coloured tissue uniformly distributed rays fine 

 and moderately broad distinct. The wood seasons well takes a 

 good polish and is used for furniture and canoes, growth fast. 

 Average weight 39 5 lbs. Branches gives 40 lbs. 



A. Kunstleri, King. Get ah Terap. 



A big sometimes vast tree with strong buttresses with rather 

 smooth bark, containing a short but fairly strong fibre. Latex used 

 as bird lime, common over the south of the Peninsula. 



Wood yellow much resembling Jack but not so good a timber, 

 rays rather broader, pores larger. Weight 28 lbs. 9 ozs. 



Pipturus mollissimus, Wedd. 

 A small tree abundant in some places but not generally com- 

 mon, wood light brown, pores numerous rather small scattered, rays 

 conspicuous, rings obscure distant. Weight 32 lbs. 12 ozs. 



MYRICACE/E. 



Mytica nagt, Thunb. Gilinche, Kusama, Kayteng. 

 A small tree common along tidal rivers and inland. Wood fairly 



