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tree. Can be had in large logs. Both Lakuch and Kaita-da, 
accordmg to Colonel Drury, would appear to be a species of 
the jack tree. 
Weight about 40 lbs. per cubic foot. 
Thitman, or "Prince of Woods" (Podocarpus neriifolia), 
produces a wood of light yellow or yellowish grey, close 
even grained, and fairly hard. Much esteemed in Burma 
and of considerable importance in the Andaman Islands, it 
is excellent to work, and is used for general carpentry, 
also for oars, spars, and tea boxes. Logs may be got 
up to 35 ft. and 15 inches square. The medullary rays are 
very fine and numerous. 
Weight 39 to 42 lbs. per cubic foot. 
Mohwa {Miviusops littoralis), Andaman bullet wood, is 
used for general building work and house posts in the 
Islands ; in Burma it is called Katpali ; it is red in colour, 
smooth and close grained, but apt to spHt. In the 
Andamans it is also used for bridges. The tree is seasoned 
like teak by " girdling," is not attacked by white ants, but 
is difficult to cut or saw and drive nails into. 
Weight 64 to 72 lbs. per cubic foot. 
Thingan {Hopea odorata), which is a lofty tree, attaining 
a height of 200 ft. and sometimes 80 ft. to the first branch, 
grows in the tropical moist forests of Burma and in the 
Andaman Islands, where it is called Rim da. It is the chief 
timber of Southern Tenasserim, and is a good deal used for 
gun carriages and general carriage work. 
It furnishes a beautiful, valuable, and durable wood of 
yellowish brown colour, hard, close and even grained, and 
boats made of it are said to last twenty years. Half a 
dozen logs of thingan were in a London sale catalogue 
