456 
FOX WORTHY. 
HAM AMELI D ACEiE. 
Wood close-grained, pores in radial rows, not very numerous, small and 
very small and only a few with wide lumen, uniformly distributed; pith- 
rays very fine, numerous. 
Altingia excelsa Noronlia. Rasamala (M.) ; nan-ta-yoh (Burm.). 
British India, Burma, Java. 
Wood hard, heavy, resinous, red, cross-grained. Pores small, uniform 
and uniformly distributed in lines between the pith-rays. Pith-rays fine, 
equidistant. Planks or indoor work in dry places. 
Gamb. 332; Nord. IX (Liquidambar altingiana Bl. ); Watt Diet. 1: 201; Van 
Eed. 124. 
Bucklandia populnea R. Br. 
British India, Burma, Sumatra, Java. 
Wood reddish-brown, rough, moderately hard and heavy, close-grained, 
durable. Seasonal rings marked by a dark line with fewer pores. Pores 
small, evenly distributed in radial lines. Pith-rays fine, very numerous, 
uniform and equidistant. Planking and door and window frames. 
Gamb. 331, tab. VII, fig. 2; Nord. IX; Van Eed. 125; Watt Diet. 1 :545. 
Fothergilla involucrata Falc. (Parrotia jacquemontiana Dene.). 
Himalaya. 
Very hard and very heavy, very close-grained; light pinkish- white ; 
pores extremely small, rather scanty. Walking sticks, tent-pegs, char- 
poys, and rice-pestles, also for native bows for throwing pellets. 
Gamb. 331; Watt Diet. 1:111. 
ROSACEPE. 
The trees of this family have usually a very fine-grained and uniform 
wood ; however, the only genera of importance from our present viewpoint, 
Parinarium and Pygev.ni, have wood of different structure; these have 
vessels of medium size to large. All of these rosaceous woods seem to be 
possessed of a more or less pronounced oxalic acid odor. 
Parinarium. Wood very hard and heavy; vessels large and scattered; 
wavy thin lines of wood parenchyma usually present; the one exception 
known to me is Parinarium oblongifolium Hook, f., which seems to have 
wood of the structure of a Pygeum. 
Parinarium griffithianum Benth. Plate XXIII, fig. 20. Liusin (Phil.); 
Merbatu layang (M.) ; Manoc (Java and Celebes). 
Tenasserim or Andaman Islands, Malacca, Borneo, Philippines, to Australia. 
Of wide distribution and rather scattered occurrence; a large tree. 
Wood very hard and heavy, light-red; an exceedingly durable wood, but 
