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FOXWORTHY. 
like those given above. Their poisonous properties have occasioned so 
much inconvenience that the wood is gradually going out of use. Where 
this wood is used, it is customary to fell it and then to leave it in the 
jungle until the beetles, termites, etc., have completely destroyed the 
sapwood. 
Pistacia integerrima J. L. Stewart. 
British India. 
Wood very hard; sapwood white; heart wood yellowish-brown, beauti- 
fully mottled with yellow and dark veins. Seasonal rings marked by a 
belt of large pores. Pores in the rest of the wood very small, forming 
irregular patches, which are frequently arranged in zigzag lines. Pith- 
rays fine, very numerous. Used for furniture, carvings and all kinds of 
ornamental work. 
Gamb. 210, tab. V, fig. 1, ; Nord. X. 
Rhus. Wood gray, often streaked, with a yellow or brown heartwood. 
Pores small, but often large and in continuous porous belts in the earlier- 
formed wood. Pith-rays fine and moderately broad. 
Several species occur scattered in the highlands through this range; 
but they are of little importance commercially because of their small 
size and scattered occurrence. 
Semecarpus. Wood usually of poor quality. Used locally for light 
or temporary construction. The wood has poisonous properties, like 
Melanorrhoea , Swintonia , Gluta , etc., which interfere with its usefulness. 
(See p. 431.) 
Gamb. 220; K. & V. 4:122-230; Van Eed. 90; Lewis 309. 
Swintonia. Wood much like that of Melanorrhoea, but not so prom- 
inently streaked. Usually a more even, reddish or whitish color. 
Equally poisonous. Large trees in the Malay Peninsula, but reaching 
their best development in Borneo. 
AQUIFOLIACE2E. 
Ilex spp. Numerous species of this genus occur throughout the 
orient, but they are usually of small size and not of any very general 
usefulness. Wood- fine-grained, white, hard. 
CELASTRACEaE. 
Wood compact, even-grained, white. Pores very or extremely small. 
Pith-rays very fine and very numerous. 
Euonymus hamiltoniana Wall. 
Northern India, central Asia, Japan. 
The yellowish-white, soft wood is used in India for wood carving. 
AVatt Diet. 3:292. 
