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FOXWORTHY. 
Homalium luzoniense F.-Vill. (Plate XXVIII, fig. 79), and other species. 
Aranga. . 
Philippines. 
A very hard and durable wood. Reddish, close-grained. Pith-rays 
very line and very numerous, turning out to pass vessels. A^essels 
medium-size, scattered. Used for piling and structural work. Con- 
sidered by many as the best wood for piling in the Philippines. 
Phil. Woods 373; Gard. 63. 
Hydnocarpus alpina Wight. 
India and Ceylon. 
Light-brown, hard, with streaks of darker color and clearly containing 
tannin. Seasonal rings faint. Pores moderate-sized, often subdivided 
radially into 2 or 3, scanty. Pith-rays fine, very numerous and closely 
packed, the distances between them much less that the transverse diameter 
of the pores. Used for beams and rafters and a good fuel. 
Gamb. 42. 
Pangium edule Reimv. Putjung; pangi. 
Malay Archipelago. 
A hard wood ; used for house building. 
Van Eed. 12; Janssonius 1:211; K. & V. 5:6-8. 
Trichadenia zeylanica Thw. Tolol (C'ingh.). 
Ceylon. 
Wood yellowish-white, hard. Pores moderate-sized, often subdivided, 
rather scanty, in radial patches. Pith-rays line, very close, regular, 
bent round the pores. 
Gamb. 41. 
DATISCACEiE. 
Tetrameles nudiflora R. Br. 
India and Ceylon. k 
White and soft. Seasonal rings marked by a belt of close pores. 
Wood cells large. Pores large, often subdivided and in short zigzag 
transverse lines. Pith-rays fine to moderately broad, clearly marked, 
the distance between the rays equal to the diameter of the pores. Tea- 
chests. 
Gamb. 381; Iv. & V. 9:37-40; Van Eed. 150; Lewis 309. 
Octomeles sumatrana Miq. Plate XXVIII, fig. 80. Binuang (Phil.) ; mi- 
nuang (M.) ; kajoe-palaka (M.). 
Sumatra, Borneo, Philippines. 
Wood soft, yellowish, not durable. 
Van Eed. 150; Becc. 579. 
