INDO-MALAYAN WOODS. 
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Ochna squarrosa L. 
British India and Burma. 
Wood suitable for inlaying and carving. 
Gamb. 136. 
THEACErE. 
Eurya acuminata DC. Malukut jantan. 
India to Malaya. 
Wood pale-red, grain fine, splits slightly in drying. Used for beams 
in house building; also for charcoal. 
Ridl. 48; Janssonius 302. 
Eurya japonica Thunb. Iiisakaki. 
India to China, Japan, and Malaya. 
Carriage building and turnery. 
Pierre 126; Janssonius 306. 
Gordon i a excelsa Bl. Pagar anak jantan. 
British India and Malaya. 
Wood pale-red, heavy and hard. Used for houses, beams, and posts. 
Ridl. 48; Janssonius 334. 
Gordonia obtusa Wall. 
British India. 
Wood pinkish- white to reddish-brown. Pores small, very numerous, 
uniformly arranged between the fine, short, very numerous pith-rays, the 
distance between which is equal to the transverse diameter of the pores. 
Seasonal rings faintly marked by a line. Construction work. 
Gamb. 67. 
Schima noronhae Reimv. (8. crenata Korth.). Medang bekwoi. 
British India, Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, Borneo, Philippines. 
Timber very close-grained, dark-red; rays very fine and obscure, not 
close, pores exceedingly numerous, very small, containing a resinous 
substance. The wood is heavy and hard, shining, apt to split but useful. 
Used for house posts and rice mortars. 
Ridl. 47; Watt Diet. 6'- : 485 ; Pierre 121; Janssonius 327. 
Schima wallichii Choisy. 
Himalaya, Tenasserim, Farther India. 
Eed, moderately hard in drying, durable. Construction work. 
Gamb. 66, tab. I, fig. 5; Nord. X; Watt Diet. 6- : 486. 
Ternstroemia japonica Thunb. Makakoku. 
Ceylon, India, China, Japan, Sumatra 
Eed, hard wood, sometimes used for furniture. 
Janssonius 296. 
