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FOXWORTHY. 
GUTTIFERZE. 
Wood usually reddish, generally with a distinct heartwood, and marked 
by characteristic, faint, concentric lines, which are often interrupted. 
Pores variable in size, usually rather large, single or more or less 
oblique wavy lines. Pith-rays fine or very fine, clearly marked. 
Calophyllum. Wood soft or moderately hard, reddish, with a darker- 
colored heartwood; seasons well; weight moderate. Cellular tissue reg- 
ular, cells roughly rectangular. Pores medium-sized or large, promi- 
nent on a vertical section, arranged in wavy strings or groups. Pith- 
rays fine or very fine, indistinct on a cross-section, but prominent as 
straight narrow lines on a radial section. Interrupted concentric lines 
of darker color and larger cells, also prominent on vertical section. 
Calophyllum inophyllum L. Plate XXVII, fig. 61. “Alexandrian laurel;” 
palo maria de la playa or bitaog (Phil.) ; pennagah (M. ). 
Africa to India, Malaya, Australia, and Polynesia; often cultivated. 
Extremely difficult to split. Used for fine furniture, bowling balls, 
knees of boats, turnery, etc. (See p. 431.) 
Gamb. 67, tab. I, fig. 4; Nord. IX; Phil. Woods 390; Gard. 64; Becc. 569; 
Ridl. 45; Watt Diet. 2:32; Van Eed. 16; Wiesner 2:974; Janssonius 272-276. 
Calophyllum spectabile Willd. 
British India, Burma, and the Malay Peninsula. 
Mast and spar wood. 
Van Eed. 17; Watt Diet. 1:460, 2:32; Ridl. 46; Pierre 107; Janssonius 
276-278. 
Calophyllum tomentosum Wight. Poon. 
Ceylon. 
Spar wood. 
Watt Diet. 2:32; Gamb. 57; Nord. X; Lewis 308. 
Many other species of Calophyllum, are used, usually under the name of 
entangor or bintangor. They are generally used as spars or masts for small 
boats. Plate XXVII, fig. 62. 
Newt. 4. 
Cratoxylon. Plate XXVII, fig. 63. Wood usually with more pro- 
nounced concentric lines than in Calophyllum. 
Cratoxylon neriifolium Kurz. 
India and Burma. 
Structural wood. 
Gamb. 49; Watt Diet, 2:588; Pierre 49. 
Cratoxylon glaucum Ivorth. Gerunggang. 
Borneo. 
Very soft, light, red u'ood, for interior finish. 
Several other species of Cratoxylon occur in Borneo and are often used under 
the name of gerunggang. 
Becc. 586. 
