INDO-MALAYAN WOODS. 
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OLACACEJE. 
Wood usually hard to very hard and heavy; pith-rays very fine and 
regular; pores small and scattered; wood parenchyma in very fine broken 
and irregular lines, connecting the pith-rays. 
Anacolosa luzoniensis Merr. Malabignay. 
Philippines. 
A pale reddish-brown wood. Hard and heavy. Used for house posts, 
etc. Several other species occur and are used in British India, the Malay 
Peninsula, and Java. 
Ctenolophon parvifolius Oliv. Bungkal (M.). 
Malacca, Borneo, Sumatra. 
Wood rather soft, brownish-white, with very fine rays and few large 
pores, which are filled with resin. 
Ridl. 103. 
Ochanostachys amentacea Mast. Petaling (M.). 
Malacca and Borneo. 
Dark, yellowish-brown wood. Durable. Pores in short radial lines. 
Structure very much like that of Strombosia and wood used for the same 
things. Said to be proof against white ants. 
Ridl. 102. 
Ochanostachys bancana (Becc.) Valeton, of Banca, Liennga, and Sumatra, is 
also known as petaling and is used for the same things. 
E.-Pr. Naclitr. 147. 
Scorodocarpus borneensis Beee. Plate XXII, fig. 11. Kulim (M.). 
Borneo and the Malay Peninsula. 
Wood very dark-brown; very hard and heavy, and very durable in the 
water. Seems to resist the teredo remarkably well and is therefore much 
in demand for piling. Also used for bridges and house construction. 
The wood, when fresh, has a very strong odor of onions. If the wood 
is not used promptly after being cut, a kind of dry rot starts in at the 
end of the log. The behavior here is much like that of liusin ( Parina - 
riurn griffthianum ) under similar conditions. 
Becc. 574; Ridl. 102; Bargagli-Petrucci 14, tab. IV. 
Strombosia philippi nensis (Baill.) Rolfe. Plate XXII, fig. 12. Tamayuan. 
Philippines. 
Very hard, moderately heavy to heavy. Dull-yellowish to pinkish; 
fine- and straight- grained. Posts, house building, joists, roofing, axe 
handles. 
Phil. Woods 393. 
Other species of Strombosia are found in Ceylon, British India, and Java. They 
much resemble the preceding and are used for the same purposes. 
