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and large in the earlier-formed wood if the seasonable rings are distinct. 
Pith-rays generally broad, short, distant, giving a marked silver grain. 
Gamb. 46; Nord. I. 
FLACOURTIACE2E. 
Wood usually reddish-brown, moderately hard or hard. Pores small, 
in short radial lines. Pith-rays fine, numerous, closely packed. The 
structure closely resembles that of the red-wooded section of Euplior- 
biacece. 
Casearia glomerata Roxb. 
British India to Hongkong and Java. 
Yellowish- white, moderately hard, coarse wood. 
Watt Diet. 2:209; Gamb. 378, tab. VIII, fig. 5; Nord. X. 
Casearia tomentosa Roxb. 
British India to Java and north Australia. 
Wood similar to the preceding and used for making combs. 
Gamb. 379; Watt Diet. 2:209; K. & V. 1 : 176-178. 
Flacourtia cataphracta Roxb. 
British India and Burma. 
K. & V. 5:26-28; Gamb. 39, tab. I, fig. 3; Nord. IX; Van Eed. 11; Janssonius 
1 : 209 ; Ridl. 11. 
Flacourtia ramontchi L’Herit. “Madagascar-plum.” 
India, Burma, Ceylon; cultivated in Egypt and throughout southern Asia. 
Eed, hard, close- and even-grained, splits but does not warp, and is 
durable. Pores small, in radial lines. Pith-rays fine, uniform, closely 
packed and somewhat wavy. Agricultural implements and turnery. 
Watt Diet. 3:399; Gamb. 40; Van Eed. 12; K. & V. 5:19-22; Janssonius 
1 :208. 
Gynocardia odorata R. Br. 
British India. 
Yellow or yellowish-brown wood; used for rough structural work. 
Watt Diet. 4:194; Gamb. 41. 
Homalium frutescens King. Petaling ayer. 
Malay Peninsula. 
A fine-grained wood, suitable for building. 
Ridl. 180. 
Homalium tomentosum Bentli. Dalingsem. 
Java to Burma. 
A hard and heavy structural Avood. 
K. & V. 1 : 182-185; Van Eed. 149. 
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