INDO-MALAYAN WOODS. 
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Dichrostachys cinerea W. & A. Poeng (Java). 
India. 
A red, extraordinarily hard wood; valued for walking sticks and tent 
pegs. 
Watt Diet. 3:109; Van Eed. 117; Iv. & V. 1:283-285. 
Gliricidia sepium (Jacq. ) Steud. Madre cacao; caeahuate. 
Commonly cultivated and escaped in the Philippines; introduced from tropical 
America. 
Produces an excellent wood, much like acle. Vessels containing yellow 
deposits. Used in house building and for agricultural implements. 
This wood furnishes a much more glistening surface when cut than does 
acle,. 
intsia bijuga (Colebr.) O. Ktze. (Afzelia hi jug a A. Gray). Plate XXIV, 
fig. 26. Ipil; ypil; epel; miraboo laut; merbau apil; ifi-lele (Samoa); ifil 
(Guam); go-mioc (Annam). 
Distributed throughout the eastern tropics from Madagascar to the Sandwich 
Islands. A littoral tree. 
Heavy and hard (sp. gr. 0.758 to 0.909). Sapwood whitish or light- 
yellow; heartwood dark-reddish-brown. Sent to Europe as furniture 
wood. Also used as a dyewood. 
Wiesner 2:928; Gard. 59; Phil. Woods 384; Gamb. 280; Van Eed. 101; Watt 
Diet. 1:128; E.-Pr. 3 3 : 140 ; K. &. V. 2:31-35; Pierre 388; Becc. 577; Bargagli- 
Petrucci 32-34, plate VI. 
Intsia bakeri Prain (Afzelia palembanica Bale.). Merbau; mirabow; mi- 
raboo ; “iromvood.” 
A very large tree of Sumatra, Borneo, the Malay Peninsula, Riouw, and Banka, 
growing inland. 
This and the preceding, together with other species of the genus, 
furnish one of the best woods of the whole region. It is very much 
in demand for furniture, heavy structural work, bridges, corner posts 
of houses, telephone and electric light posts, and, in fact, anywhere that 
an insect- and decay-resisting wood is needed. The wood is distinguished 
by the copious sulphur-yellow deposits in its vessels. There is little, 
if anything, to choose between ipil and mirabow. The ipil , at least when 
fresh, is a shade the darker in color, otherwise the two are indistinguish- 
able. 
Van Eed. 102; Ridl. 140; Newton 4. 
Orrnosia calavensis Blanco. Baliay; ala-saga. 
Philippines. 
Moderately hard and heavy. Sapwood grayish-white; heartwood red. 
A very good wood, which is used locally as a substitute for iinclalo 
(Pahudia rhomb oidea (Blanco) Prain). 
Other species of the genus occur in India and Malaya, but they are of only 
local importance. 
