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FOX W ORTH V. 
Myristica malabarica Lam. 
British India. 
Used for structural work but is not very durable. 
Gamb. 555. 
Myristica philippensis Warb. Plate XXIII, fig. 15. Duguan. 
Philippines. 
Wood moderately hard and moderately heavy, not durable, badly 
attacked by the beetles. Light or temporary construction. 
Phil. Woods 381. 
Other species of Myristica have wood of much the same structure and 
used for the same purposes as that here described. In Borneo, the wood 
of Myristica is often known as cumpang. Bawang, a fairly good wood 
of Dutch East Borneo, seems to belong here. This wood is shipped to 
the New York market, to be used in the making of cigar boxes. Some 
of the vessels are large and filled with a dark-red gummy deposit. 
Lewis 309. 
MONIMIAOEiE. 
Wood soft or moderately hard, usually light and not durable. Pores 
small, fairly numerous, regular. Pith-rays broad, at irregular distances, 
with fine ones between. Usually of little importance. 
Tambourissa quadrifida Sown. 
Mascarenes, Java. 
Produces the very light “bois de tambour.” 
LAURACE2E. 
The woods of this family are exceedingly variable in structure and 
appearance, as well as in physical and chemical properties. Many rep- 
resentatives of the family have wood which has a very pronounced odor, 
usually agreeable, but markedly unpleasant in some, as e. g. the “stink 
wood” ( Ocotea bullata) of South Africa. 
The woods of the family can be grouped roughly according to several 
types which are probably best handled under the common names of their 
best known representatives. 
BILLIAN. 
Eusideroxylon zwageri T. & B. Plate XXIII, fig. 18. Billian (M.) ; kajoe 
besi (M. ) ; Borneo ironwood; ulin (oelin) (E. Borneo) ; eijserhout (Dutch) 
Borneo, Sumatra, Banka, possibly also in the Malay Peninsula. 
Wood very hard and very heavy. Extremely durable. Yellowish to 
dark-brown, becoming almost black with age. Pith-rays fine; vessels 
medium-size to large, fringed with wood parenchyma which is continued 
tangentially into fine, usually discontinuous lines. Large vessels divided 
longitudinally into several compartments and filled with a yellowish, 
glistening crystalline substance, which also seems to fill many of the wood 
