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FOXWORTHY. 
Koompassia malaccensis Maingay. Kumpas. 
Malay Peninsula. 
Reddish, very hard and moderately heavy, coarse-grained, not durable. 
Charcoal. 
Newt. 5; Ridl. 137; E.-Pr. 3 3 :156. 
Koompassia parviflora Plain. Tualang or sialang (M.). 
Malay Peninsula. 
Ridl. 138. 
Pterocarpus. Wood hard to very hard, moderately heavy to very heavy ; 
yellowish-brown, red, or purplish-red. Pores variable, small to large, 
scanty, in patches of wood parenchyma joined by more or less fine, wavy, 
concentric lines of the same tissue. Pith-rays very fine, uniform, equi- 
distant. In color, the different species differ; P. santalinus has its wood 
of a very dark claret-red color; P. indicus and P. macrocarpus of a dark 
brick-red color; P. dalbergioides has a bright-red wood, often streaked 
with black; while the wood of P. marsupium is of a brown color with a 
yellowish tinge. All the species are valuable as furniture and ornamental 
woods and all contain a certain amount of a substance which gives them 
an aromatic odor. 
Pterocarpus dalbergioides Roxb. “Andaman redwood” or Andaman padauk. 
Andaman Islands. 
Wood moderately hard and heavy; sap wood gray, small; heartwood 
bright-red, streaked with brown and black. Pores scanty, moderate- 
sized to large, filled with resin, surrounded with pale rings and joined 
b} r narrow, wavy, concentric lines of wood parenchyma. Pith-rays very 
fine, very numerous, uniform and equidistant. Padauk is used in Europe 
and America for furniture, parquet-floors, railway carriages, door-frames, 
balustrades, etc. Most successfully used in the building of Pullman cars 
in America. One of the most important export furniture woods of the 
whole region. 
Gamb. 257—259; Van Eed. 97. 
Pterocarpus echinatus Pers. Narra (Phil.). 
Philippines and Celebes. 
Much like the preceding. 
Phil. Woods 390. 
Pterocarpus hypostictus Miq. Tarpandi. 
Sumatra. 
Masts. 
Van Eed. 97. 
