INDO-MALAYAN WOODS. 
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Goniothalamus tapis Miq. Tapis (M.). 
Malay Peninsula and Archipelago. 
Moderately hard and heavy ; said to be nsed for house building in J ava. 
Van Eed. 8 ; Ridl. 10. 
Miliusa velutina Hook. i. & Th. Dom-sal (Hind.); Thabutkyi (Burm.). 
East Indies. 
Light-brown, tolerably hard wood ; easily worked and durable ; used 
for carts, agricultural implements, spear shafts and oars. 
Gamb. 21; Watt Diet. 5:545. 
Mitrephora edwardsii Pierre. 
Tropical Asia. 
Yellowish, hard and very pliable. Used for balances, and small articles 
of furniture. 
Pierre 35. 
Polyalthia cerasioides Benth. & Hook. f. 
British India and Burma. 
Greenish-brown, moderately hard and heavy, wood for house-finishing, 
masts and spars. 
Gamb. 17; Watt Diet. 6 1 :313. 
Polyalthia longifolia (Lam.) Benth. & Hook. f. Indian fir; mast tree. 
India and Ceylon; cultivated in all parts of India. 
Produces white to yellowish, soft, very readily bent wood, for barrels, 
drum cylinders, boxes, lead pencils and matches. 
Watt Diet. 6 1 : 314 ; Gamb. 18. 
Polyalthia suberosa (DC.) Benth. & Hook. f. 
British India and Ceylon, Philippines. 
A hard, heavy, tough and durable wood, used like the preceding. 
Watt Diet. 1. e. 314; Gamb. 17. 
Polyalthia subcordata Bl. 
Java and Borneo. 
Produces, presumably, the very peculiar cabinet wood “Baloen aback.” 
Van Eed. 8 ; Janssonius 1 : 134. 
Xylopia parvifolia Hook. f. et Thoms. 
Ceylon. 
Produces wood for tea-chests. 
Lewis 308 ; Gamb. 20. 
MYRISTICACE2E. 
Wood usually light, somewhat soft, reddish-brown, with regular prom- 
inent rings of hard wood without pores, looking like seasonal rings. 
Pores in short radial strings, moderate-sized, rather scanty, arranged en 
echelon. Pith-rays fine, numerous, irregular. 
