INDO-MALAYAN WOODS. 
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Pterocarpus indicus Willd. Plate XXIV, fig. 28. Narra (Phil.); angsana 
(M.). 
Southern India to the Malay Archipelago and southern China, Philippines. 
Heartwood of a splendid red; moderately hard and with slightly 
aromatic odor, durable, not attacked by termites, easily worked and 
polished. Furniture and wagon building. 
Watt Diet. GDSSG; E.-Pr. 3 3 : 341 ; Ridl. 135; Culbertson in Bot. Gaz. 21 
(1894) 498; Gamb. 257; Van Eed. 98; Gard. 57; Phil. Woods 390; K. & V. 
2:83-88; Stone 75, pi. V, fig. 41 J Stevenson 247-249; Becc. 576. 
Pterocarpus macrocarpus Kurz. Padauk; padu; padoo; “inland padauk.” 
India and Burma. 
Produces a very hard and very heavy wood. The wood of roots and 
stem-knots resembles dark mahogany, and is made up into small boxes. 
Culbertson Bot. Gaz. 21 (1894) 498; Gamb. 259. 
Pterocarpus marsupium Roxb. Biji (Hind.); gammala (Cing.). 
India and Ceylon. 
The brown- and dark-striped, very hard, durable and easily polished 
wood serves for window frames, posts, furniture, agricultural implements, 
wagon and boat building, and railroad ties. The heartwood is full of 
gum resin and stains yellow when damp. 
Watt Diet. 6 1 : 357; Nord. X; Gamb. 261, tab. VI, fig. 2. 
Pterocarpus santalinus L. f. East Indian sandalwood; red sanders; calia- 
turholz. 
Southern India. 
Wood very hard and very heavy; sapwood white, heartwood dark- 
claret-red to almost black, but always with a deep-red tinge, orange-red 
when first cut, the shavings giving an orange-red color. Used for house 
posts, agricultural implements, carved work, and dyewood. The value 
of redwood as a dye is due to a red coloring principle, “santalin,” which 
is soluble in alcohol and ether, but not in water. Dissolved in alcohol, 
it dyes cloth a beautiful salmon-pink color. 
Van Eed. 99; Wiesner 2:937-939; Gamb. 259; Iloltzapffel 103. 
BAUH1NIA TYPE. 
Bauhinia acuminata L. 
India Malaya, China. 
Produces the pretty and durable “mountain ebony/ 5 . 
E.-Pr. 3 3 : 149. 
Bauhinia malabarica Roxb. Alabangbang (Phil.). 
India and Burma to Cochin China, the Philippines, and Malaya. 
Moderately hard and moderately heavy. Not very durable. Prominent 
parallel transverse lines on tangential section. Wood rather poor quality. 
Fuel. 
Gamb. 282; Van Eed. 102; K. & V. 2:24-26; Pierre 400. 
