INDO-MALAYAN WOODS. 
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Koordersiodendron pinnatum (Blanco) Merr. ( Eelicteres pinnata Blanco) . 
Plate XXV, fig. 45. Amuguis (Phil.). 
Philippines, Celebes, and New Guinea. 
Wood moderately hard, and heavy, fine-grained, dark-red. Much in 
demand for construction and cabinet work. 
Phil. Woods 371; Gard. 62. 
Lannea grandis (Dennst.) Engl. ( Calesiam grandis 0. Ktze; Odina wodier 
Roxb. ) . Kiamil (Hind.) ; wodier ( Tam. ) ; nabhay (Burm.) ; hilt (Cingh.). 
India, Ceylon, Burma. 
A generally useful wood, which is not to be distinguished from that 
of Koordersiodendron. 
Watt Diet. 5:445; Ridl. 108; Van Eed. 88; Gamb. 218-220, tab. V, fig. 6; 
Nord. IX; Pierre 375. 
Mangifera. No heartwood, grayish to brownish in color. Pores large, 
prominent on a vertical section. Pith-rays fine, generally closely packed. 
Occasionally fine, wavy, concentric lines. 
Mangifera indica L. The mango. 
British India, Burma, Ceylon and Malaya; widely cultivated. 
Planking, doors and window frames, packing cases, canoes. Other 
species of Mangifera are used in much the same way. 
Gamb. 111-114; Nord. V; Ridl. 108; Watt Diet. 5:146-157; Van Eed. 87; 
K. & V. 4:75-93; Lewis 309; Pierre 361. 
Melanochyla spp. 
Various fairly good woods of the Malay Peninsula and Borneo, which are 
usually of rather small size and not in great quantity. 
Becc. 575; Ridl. 110; Bargagli-Petrucci 40. 
Melanorrhoea. (Plate XXV, fig. 46.) Wood dark-red, with yellowish 
streaks, turning very dark after long exposure, very hard and heavy. 
Pores moderate-sized, scanty, often subdivided, each pore or group of 
pores inclosed in a small patch of light tissue. Pith-rays very fine, wavy, 
very numerous. Numerous undulating, often interrupted, very narrow, 
concentric lines of soft tissue, unequally distributed in the wood. Con- 
tains a poisonous gum, which may even affect a person after the wood 
is made up into furniture. 
Melanorrhoea maingayi Hook. f. Reugas manau (M.) ; “Straits mahogany.” 
Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, and Borneo. 
Beams and furniture. 
Ridl. 109. 
Melanorrhoea usitata Wall. “Black varnish tree,” thitsi (Burm.). 
British India. 
Tool handles, anchor stocks, building, railway sleepers, gunstocks. 
Gamb. 217, tab. V, fig. 5; Nord. VIII; Watt Diet. 5:210; Pierre 367. 
Several other species occur in the Malay region and are known by 
the name of ringas (Becc. 575), or “Borneo rosewood.’’ Their uses are 
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