INDO-MALAYAN WOODS. 
455 
HERNANIJIACEA3. 
A very small family of scattered trees. Wood usually of poor quality, 
soft and light. 
Gyrocarpus jacquini Roxb. 
Tropics of both hemispheres. 
Very soft and very light. Pores large and medium-sized, scanty, often 
subdivided, uniformly distributed. Pith-rays very short, moderately 
broad, the distance between them greater than the transverse diameter of 
the pores. Used for boxes, toys and small boats. 
Gamb. 350. 
Hernandia peltata Meissn. Palatu (Cing.). 
Seacoasts of tropics everywhere. 
Very soft and very light,’ gray. Pores moderate-sized to large; col- 
lected in oblong or linear more or less concentric dark scattered patches 
of loose tissue. Pith-rays very fine, numerous, with occasional broader 
ones. Cellular tissue soft. 
Gamb. 575. 
CAPPARIDACEfiE. 
Wood white or yellowish- white, moderately hard or hard. The main 
character useful in determination is that of pores in radial lines, not 
between each pair of pith-rays, but at intervals, pairs without pores coming 
between those that contain pores. 
Capparis grandis L. f. 
British India, Burma and Ceylon. 
A white, moderately hard, durable wood. 
Gamb. 35; Nord. X; Watt Diet. 2:130. 
Crataeva religiosa Forst. 
Widespread in the tropics. 
Wood yellowish- white, when old turning yellowish-brown, moderately 
hard, even-grained. Used for drums, models, writing boards, combs and 
in turnery. Not durable and liable to the attacks of beetles. 
Gamb. 32; Nord. X. 
PITTOSPORACErE. 
Wood white, moderately hard, even-grained. Seasonal rings faintly 
marked. Pores small, rather scanty and irregularly distributed. Pith- 
rays fine, prominent, not numerous, pale. 
Pittosporum ferrugineum Ait. Giramong (M.). 
Malay Peninsula and Archipelago to Australia. 
Light to moderately heavy and soft or moderately hard. Wood white, 
fine-grained, pores very small in clusters, fairly numerous, pith-rays fine 
but rather distinct, rings fairly distinct. 
Ridl. 12; Janssonius 1 :226. 
