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hard close grained reddish brown, pores very numerous and close, 

 rays medium to fine. Usually a crooked tree and of little use ex- 

 cept for fencing and such work. Weight 41 lbs. 2 ozs. 



JUGLANDE.E 

 Englehardtia. 



Three or four species of no great size usually with winged fruits. 

 E. wallichiana, Lindl. 



A fair sized tree occuring in Penang and Singapore. Wood 

 brown rather light coloured, in transverse section greyer, rather 

 light, heart wood hardly distinct but rather redder, rings distinct 

 darker coloured broad and very irregular in width, pores, rather 

 large scattered rays very fine and obscure, a pretty wood but rather 

 soft. Weight 35 lbs. 7 ozs. 



E. nudiflora, Hook fil. 



Wood grey brown, rings not very distinct, pores very numerous 

 mixed some large others small, scattered rays medium size. 

 Weight 35 lbs. 



CUPULIFER/fc. 



There are two genera of this order represented here Quercus 

 Oaks, Berangan babi of the Malays, and Castanopsis chestnuts 

 " Berangan ", all are fairly large sometimes very large trees. 



Quercus. 



The timber of the oaks as Gamble points out may be classified 

 in two groups. In the first all the medullary rays are very fine 

 and numerous, in the second there are two kinds of rays, very fine 

 ones, and very broad conspicuous ones, which in a vertical section 

 show as broad bars, producing the appearance commonly know'n 

 as silver grain. The timbers of the first class are superior to those 

 of the latter, though the silver grained timbers are much more 

 beautiful. Most of our common oaks here belong to the second class. 



Q. Cautleyana, King. 



A large tree, acorns hoary in shallow cups. 



Wood light coloured yellowish, pores in rows, large surrounded 

 by pale softer tissue, concentric rings fine wavy, no silver grain. 

 Weight 82 lbs. 9 ozs. A dull poor coloured wood. 



Q. encleisocat f>a, Korth. Mempening putih. 



Tree 30 to 40 feet. Acorns silvery almost completely covered 

 by the thin cup. Common. 



Bark rough thick dark brown \ inch through. Wood light red 

 shining in longitudinal section, pores large in long rows and 

 groups, ring's fairly distinct, rays broad darker than the surround- 

 ing tissue and remote few, concentric rings very fine wavy. A 

 beautiful wood with a fine silver grain, rather light/ Weight 32 lbs. 

 6 ozs. to 53 lbs. 12 ozs l T sed in building 



