INDO-MALAYAN WOODS. 
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Kleinhofia hospita L. 
India, East Africa, through Malaya to New Guinea and Polynesia. 
Whitish, brown-spotted wood, valued for walking sticks, weapon han- 
dles, etc. 
Pierre 177; Gamb. 99; Van Eed. 39; K. & V. 2:178-181; Janssonius 461. 
Pterocymbium javanicum Bl. 
Java. 
Wood very much the same as that of P. tinctorium. 
Janssonius 439; K. & V. 2:162-165. 
Pterocymbium tinctorium (Blanco) Merr. Plate XXVI, fig. 57. Teluto. 
Philippines. 
Wood very soft and light, whitish, no heartwood. Pith-rays large. 
Pores large and scattered ; ripple marks very evident on tangential section. 
Phil. Woods 395. 
Pterocymbium viridiflorum T. & B. Taloetoe. 
Celebes. 
Like the preceding. 
Van Eed. 41. 
Pterospermum. Wood reddish, moderately hard. Pores small and 
moderate-sized, often in short radial lines. Pith-rays fine, closely packed. 
Pterospermum suberifolium Lam. 
British India and Ceylon. 
Structural wood. 
Gamb. 101; Nord. X (pith-rays very short, arranged on the transverse section 
in watermark pattern) ; Watt Diet. 4:184; Van Eed. 42; K. & V. 2:186-191. 
Several other species of the genus are also used. 
Sterculia. Wood usually light and soft, not durable. Pith-rays of 
medium size. Pores of medium size, scattered. 
Sterculia foetida L. Telambu (Cingh. ). 
British India to New South Wales; cultivated in America. 
Gray soft wood, for masts and boxes. 
Watt Diet. 6 s : 363; Gamb. 93; Van Eed. 43; Janssonius 422; K. & V. 2: 
139-142. 
A number of other species are used, brxt none are of much importance. 
Tarrietia. Wood with dark red or reddish-brown heart. Moderately 
hard to very hard and heavy. Pores medium-size to large, often with 
colored deposits. Pith-rays moderately large. Wood parenchyma scat- 
tered, occasionally in irregular, broken, concentric lines. 
Tarrietia cochinchinensis Pierre. 
Cochin China. 
A useful structural wood in Cochin China. 
Pierre 205. 
