INDO-MALAYAN WOODS. 
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Swietenia mahagoni L. Mahogani; acajou. 
West Indies and Central America; also planted and doing well in India. 
Hard and heavy ; bright or dark cinnamon-brown to reddish-brown, 
either uniform in color or well marked. Parallel transverse lines very 
prominent in longitudinal section. Principal uses, furniture and cabinet 
work. (See p. 430.) 
Wiesner 2:959; Gamb. 153-155; Stevenson 225-239; Stone 32. 
Swietenia macrophylla King. 
Introduced from the West Indies. Grows well in cultivation in this part of 
the world. 
Wood moderately hard and moderately heavy. 
Gamb. 155. 
Toona. Wood pale reddish, light and soft, ring porous and with distinct 
cedary odor. 
Toona serrata (Royle) Roemer (Cedrela serrata Royle). “Toon tree;” “In- 
dian mahogany;” “Moulmein cedar;” “cedre rouge;” “cedre de Singapore:” 
India. 
Light, shining, soft but durable; termite proof. A very valuable 
wood, used for furniture, framing, wood carving, tea-chests, cigar boxes. 
Watt Diet. 2:232; Lewis 307; Gamb. 160, tab. Ill, fig. 6 (Cedrela serrata 
Royle); Nord. IX ( Cedrela serrata Royle); Van Eed. 66; K. & V. 3:204- 
207 ; Stone 37 ; Holtzapffel 108. 
Toona ciliata Roem. (Cedrela toona Roxb.). Toon; “Moulmein cedar;” 
“Indian mahogany.” 
British India and Burma. 
Wood durable, termite proof, and used for all kinds of furniture. 
Gamb. 157-159, tab. Ill, fig. 5; Nord. IV; Stone 37; Watt Diet. 2:233. 
Toona febrifuga (Bl.) Harms (Cedrela febrifugg Bl.) . Soeren. 
Burma, Cochin China, Java, etc. 
Structure and uses much the same as in the preceding. 
Van Eed. 65; K. & V. 3:197-204; Pierre 358. 
Toona calantas Merr. & Rolfe. Plate XXV, fig. 41. Calantas. 
Philippines. 
Phil. Woods 379; Gard. 61-62. 
Very much like Toona febrifuga (Bl.) Roem. 
Several other closely related species of the genus are found in the 
range and their use and structure is much the same as that indicated 
for the species named. The genus is very closely allied to the American 
Cedrela. 
