INDO-MALAYAN WOODS. 
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paste the wood is employed by the Brahmans for their distinguishing- 
caste marks. 
The bastard sandahvood of India is Erythroxylon monogynum Roxb. 
It is very fragrant and is used as a substitute for' sandalwood. The 
yellow sanders ( Ximenia americana L.), of tropical America, the Pacific 
Islands, Malaya, Australia, Asia and Africa, has a fragrant yellow wood 
which is used as a substitute for sandalwood. 
Holtzapffel 105; Wiesner 2: 908-911; 937-940. Boulger 266-268; Stone 191. 
SATINWOOD. 
This is the product of Chloroxylon swietenia DC. (See p. 473.) 
It is found in India and Ceylon, where it has been rather common. 
Certain species of F agar a, Z antlxoxylum, etc. are also known to produce 
satinwood in tropical America and Australia. Certain Philippine 
Rutacece have wood which would do very well as a satinwood, but they 
are usually of comparatively small size and rather scattered in occurrence. 
The name refers to the beautifully smooth and satiny luster which the 
wood shows when finished. This wood was probably introduced into 
Europe before mahogany. It was in request for rich furniture about 
the end of the eighteenth century, the fashion then being to ornament 
panels of it with painted medallions and floral scrolls and borders. Now 
it is used for inlaying or borders and small veneers and most largely in 
covering the backs of hair and clothes brushes and in making small 
articles of turnery, all kinds of furniture, railway carriages, writing and 
stationery fitments and toilet requisites. 
Maba buxifolia Pers. is said to furnish a kind of satinwood, but I 
have never seen it so used. 
There is frequently a curled grain which adds to the beauty. 
Holtzapffel 105; Stevenson 267; Stone 29-31; Wiesner 2: 953; Boulger 281. 
ZEBRAWOOD. 
This is a name given to varieties of wood used as veneers, and striped 
so as to suggest a zebra’s skin. The name has been used for some of the 
bright-streaked species of Diospyros and also for some woods which occur 
in small size and which have a conspicuously variegated appearance with 
bright colors. Such woods seem to be of little importance except for 
canes and other small articles. 
One of the trees said to produce zebrawood in South America is 
Guettarda speciosa~h. This same tree is not uncommon along the sea- 
coast in this part of the world, but it seems usually to be of rather small 
size and but little used. 
Another Philippine wood to which this name would seem to apply is 
Taxotropliis ilicifolia Vid. This wood is brilliantly streaked and makes 
most striking canes. 
Holtzapffel 110; Boulger 302. 
