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wardrobes, etc. It is so much in demand that it is very much imitated. 
Soft and absorbent woods are used in place of camphorwood very often, 
the wood being treated with a solution of camphor or other oil, which gives 
it, temporarily, an odor resembling that of the camphorwood. (See 
p. 426.) 
Fliickiger, Pharmakognosie, III, Aufi. (1891) 151; Van Eed. 201; Holtzapffel 
78. 
A number of other trees in the Laurace ce furnish highly aromatic wood 
which sometimes resembles camphorwood in odor. Some of the Borneo 
and Philippine species of Cinnamomum and possibly other genera, have 
wood which is so strongly aromatic that it could probably be very well 
employed for the same kinds of work as the true camphorwood. The 
strongest scented one of these is a Sarawak wood known as kappla (Becc. 
581), of which I have only sterile material and which I am unable to put 
in a genus. Another very strongly scented wood of the same region is 
known as medang lada; it is a species of Cinnamomum , and occurs locally 
in some quantity. 
MEDANG. 
This is a name applied to a large number of different species which 
show some resemblance in the structure of their wood. One of the best 
known of these is Litsea perrottetii F.-Vill. (Plate XXIII, fig. 19) of the 
Philippines, which is known in Manila as baticulin. The pith-rays of the 
different medangs are fine to moderately broad; vessels fine; seasonal 
rings not distinct. Fine-grained; soft or moderately hard woods; white 
or grayish in color; usually very easily worked and not very durable. 
They are used for light or temporary construction and are pretty widely 
known. Fifteen or twenty or more kinds of medang are found, but they 
are not clearly marked off one from another, because the trees producing 
them are usually more or less scattered. By cutting a number of 
different kinds of medang it is possible to get timber in some quantity in 
many localities, while, if only one particular kind of medang were used, 
it would not be possible to get sufficient of the wood for many purposes. 
This probably accounts for the composite nature of the wood supply 
known as medang. Sometimes dark-colored woods are found under this 
name, but the lighter-colored ones are much the more common. 
Representatives of the following genera of this part of the world may 
occasionally be found under the name of medang: Machilus, Phoebe, 
Notaphoebe, Actinodaphne , Neolitsea , Litsea, Dehaasia, Cryptocarya, 
Endiandra and Lindera. 
Occasionally dark-yellowish woods, species of Beilschmiedia, are found 
which seem to be really intermediate between billian and medang. Beil- 
schmiedia cairocan A 7 icl. .(Plate XXIII, fig. 16) of the Philippines, 
known as rnalacadios , is a very good wood of this class. Some species of 
Cryptocarya probably belong also in this class. 
