498 
FOXWORTHY. 
Grewia tiliaefolia Valil. 
British India and Ceylon, tropical Africa. 
White wood, with small brown heart. Hard, easy to work, very 
durable. Used wherever firmness and elasticity must be combined, as 
in masts, rudders, etc. 
Watt Diet. 4:1S4; Gamb. 109. 
Grewia microcos L. 
British India, Burma, Ceylon, Cochin China. 
Gray, soft. Pores moderate-sized, scanty, joined by wavy belts of soft 
tissue, broken but concentrically arranged. 
Gamb. 112; Nord. IV; Pierre 152; K. & V. 1 : 226-228; Janssonius 1 :502. 
Numerous other species of Grcioia occur and some of them are also 
used like those above described. 
Pentace burmanica (L.) Ivurz. 
British India, Malacca, Java. 
White, on exposure to the air reddish, light, soft wood, used princi- 
pally for boats and tea-chests. 
Watt Diet. 4 1 : 131 ; E.-Pr. 3 n :17; Gamb. 100; Pierre 151. 
Schoutenia ovata Korth. Oostindisch paarden vleesch (Dutch). 
Java. 
Beautiful reddish-brown, long- and smooth-fibered, very elastic and 
durable structural wood, surpassing all others for bows. 
Van Eed. 51; K. & V. 1:211-215; Janssonius 1:525. 
MALVACEAE. 
Wood soft to moderately hard; light to heavy. Pores of medium 
size, scattered. Pith-rays of medium size. Sapwood and heartwood 
usually quite distinct. Heartwood often with distinct rose-like odor. 
Bombycidendron campylosiphon (Turcz.) Warb. Plate XXVI, tigs. 54, 55. 
Probably not to be distinguished in the wood from B. vidalianum (Naves) 
Merr. & Rolfe. 
Philippines. 
Wood with much the same appearance as that of Hibiscus tiliaceus but 
distinctly harder and heavier; and with distinct ripple marks on the 
tangential surface (Plate XXVI, fig. 55). Used for cabinet making, car- 
riage building, shafts, flooring, ordinary construction, furniture, planks, 
boat building, telegraph poles, sides and backs of guitars and mandolins. 
Phil. Woods 385. 
Hibiscus tiliaceus L. “Corkwood” of the Antilles. 
Tropics of the world. 
The nut-brown, very light and easily worked wood is used as floats 
for fish nets, light boats, etc. Also for some purposes as a kind of 
“rosewood.” 
K. & V. 2:106; Watt Diet. 4:247; Gamb. 88; Nord. IX; Van Eed. 36; Ridl. 
49; Janssonius 1:380. 
