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EEYTHKOXYLACE.E. 
Erythroxylum cuneatum (Wall.) Kurz. (E. burmanicum Griff.) Medang; 
lagundi ; chintah ; mulah. 
Malay Peninsula and Archipelago, Philippines. 
Wood heavy and compact, dark-red or brown with distinct but irregular 
rings; rays very fine and numerous; pores copious and small. A good 
ordinary building timber. 
Eidl. 95. 
KUTACEJG. 
Vessels and pith-rays fine; very even-grained yroo'ds. , 
/Eg\e marmelos (L.) Correa. ‘‘Bel fruit tree;” “Bengal quince.” 
British India and Burma; widely cultivated. 
Yellowish-white hard and heavy wood, which has a sharply aromatic 
odor when fresh; not durable. Seasonal rings marked by distinct lines, 
and often by a continuous belt of pores. Construction, pestles of oil 
and sugar mills, naves and other parts of carts, and agricultural im- 
plements. 
Watt Diet. 1:123; Gamb. 131, tab. II, fig. 5; Nord. IX; Van Eed. 54; 
Janssonius 2:69. 
Atalantia monophylla (L.) Correa. 
British India to Tenasserim, Ceylon. 
Yellow, very hard and heavy wood, with numerous annular zones 
marked by bright lines. A boxwood substitute. The wood much 
resembles that of Murray a exotica. TJsed for engraving, cabinet work, 
and turning. 
E.-Pr. 3 4 : 192 ; Watt Diet. 1:349; Gamb. 129. 
Atalantia missionis (Wight) Oliv. 
British India and Ceylon. 
The moderately hard, yellowish-white wood with distinct seasonal 
rings is used for furniture and cabinet work. 
E.-Pr. 3 4 : 192 ; Watt Diet. 1:349; Gamb. 129. 
Chloroxylon swietenia DC. Plate XXIV, fig. 34. East Indian satinwood. 
British India and Ceylon. 
Hard and very heavy ; pale yellow with a satiny sheen when smoothed ; 
very durable. Furniture and picture frames. Used locally for railroad 
ties and general construction work. With distinct parallel transverse 
lines on tangential section. (See p. 433.) 
Wiesner 2:953; Gamb. 160-162; Nord. X; Stone 29-31; Van Eed. 67; Brown 
in Trop. Agric. 19 (1899) 118. 
Very similar to the West Indian satinwood ( Fagara flava (Vahl) Krug & 
Urb. ), which belongs to the same family. 
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