470 
FOXWORTHY. 
for construction and furniture (F. Mueller, Select Extra-tropical Plants 
(1881) 1). 
Acacia ferruginea DC. Ironwood. 
India. 
Blits 1. c. ; Gamb. 298; Watt Diet. 1:50. 
Acacia farnesiana Willd. Ironwood. 
Throughout the tropics; original home uncertain. 
Acacia koa Gray. Ivoa wood. 
The most important furniture wood of the Hawaiian Islands. 
Acacia leucophloea Willd. Pilang (M.). 
British India, Ceylon, Burma, Malay Archipelago. 
Wood hard and heavy; sapwood large; heartwood reddish-brown with 
lighter and darker streaks. Seasons well, takes a good polish, but is 
often eaten by insects. Fuel. 
Gamb. 295; Watt Diet. 1:52; Van Eed. 112; K. & V. 1:286-289. 
Acacia melanoxylon R. Br. Plate XXIII, fig. 23. Black wattle. 
Southeastern Australia; naturalized in India. 
Soft to moderately hard and moderately heavy. Sapwood light brown; 
heartwood dark brown and beautifully mottled, shining, even-grained. 
Fine furniture and veneer, also carriage building. 
E.-Pr. 3 3 : 110; Semler 620; Watt Diet. 1:53; Gamb. 301; Hough Amer. Woods 
7:155; Stone 81, pi. V, fig. 44. 
Acacia modesta Wall. 
Himalaya, Punjab. 
Beautiful, dark-brown, black-striped heart. Very hard, firm and 
durable. Wheels, sugar presses, agricultural implements, etc. 
Watt Diet. 1 :53. 
Acacia planifrons W. & A. 
India. 
Agricultural implements. 
Watt Diet. 1 :54. 
Acacia tomentosa Willd. Klampis (M.). 
British India, Ceylon, and Malaya. 
Hard and heavy, but not durable. Used only for fuel. 
Van Eed. 112; K. & V. 1:289-291. 
Caesalpinia sappan L. Plate XXIV, fig. 31. Sappan wood; sibucao (Phil.). 
India and Ceylon to Malaya and the Philippines, widely cultivated. 
Very hard and heavy. Sapwood white, heartwood dark orange-yellow. 
Fine-grained, takes a fine polish; useful for cabinet work and inlaying, 
but chiefly used for dyeing. (See p. 425.) 
Gamb. 267; Wiesner 2:934; Van Eed. 103; Ridl. 137; Stone 70; Holtzapffel 
105. 
