INDO-MALAYAN WOODS. 
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Pometia pinnata Foist. Plate XXVI, fig. 50. Dawa; lengsar; malugay 
(Phil.). 
New Guinea, Sunda and South Sea Islands, Philippines, Ceylon, Andamans. 
A moderately hard and moderately heavy wood, reddish. Used in 
structural work. 
Phil. Woods 388; Card. 66; Van Fed. 80; K. & V. 9:196. 
Sapindus trifoliatus L. “Soap-nut tree;” ritha. 
Southern Asia. 
A yellow, hard, structural wood. 
Watt Diet. 6 2 :471. 
Schleichera trijuga W. “Lac tree;” “Ceylon oak;” kosum (Hind.). 
Tropical Asia. 
Hard, durable, readily polished wood, with white sapwood and red- 
brown heartwood. Used for oil and sugar mills, rice-pounders (the best 
wood for the purpose in southern India), agricultural implements and 
carts ; firewood and charcoal. 
Gamb. 194, tab. IV, fig. 6; Nord. VII (Melicocca trijuga Juss.) ; Watt Diet. 
6 2 :488 ; Van Bed. 81; K. & V. 9:177-180. 
Xerospermum muricatum Bl. Kambutan pachat. 
Malay Peninsula. 
Wood brown, light, durable and good; used for building. 
Ridl. 105. 
Xerospermum noronhianum Bl. Ramboetan-oetan. 
Sumatra and Java. 
Wood much like the preceding. 
Van Eed. 82; K. & V. 9:182-184. 
STAPHYLEACEzE. 
Turpinia pomifera DC. Geritta. 
Malay Peninsula and Archipelago, British India, Ceylon, and China. 
Light and soft, not a durable wood. Used for household utensils. 
Van Eed. 81 ; Ridl. 106. 
SABIACE2E. 
Meliosma dilleniaefolia Bl. 
Himalaya. 
White, moderately hard, even-grained. Seasonal rings marked by a 
continuous line of pores and darker color. Pores small, single or sub- 
divided or in rounded groups, except along the seasonal rings. Pith-rays 
wavy, moderately broad or fine, distinctly marked in silver grain, which 
has a satiny luster. 
Gamb. 205, tab. V, fig. 3; Nord. VIII. 
Several other species occur with wood as described, but they are usually 
scattered and of small size. 
