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FOXWORTHY. 
Lagerstroem ia piriformis Koeline ( L . batitinan Vid.). Batitinan. 
Philippines. 
Wood hard and moderately heavy. Sap wood light; heartwood dark- 
brown. Pine straight grain. Seasonal rings distinct. Ring porous. 
Black glistening deposits in the vessels. Used for general construction; 
posts, sleepers, flooring, joists, planks, rafters; shipbuilding, keelsons, 
masts; piles; telegraph poles. 
Phil. Woods 377 ; Gard. 65. 
Lagerstroemia speciosa (L.) Pers. ( L . flos-regine Retz.). Plate XXVIII, 
fig. 81. Jarul (Beng.) ; banaba (Phil.) ; bongoh, boengoer (M.). 
Throughout the eastern tropics. 
Moderately heavy and hard. Sapwood light to pinkish; heartwood 
dark-reddish-brown or light-red. Seasonal rings distinct. Ring-porous. 
Straight-grained. Dark-colored, glistening deposits in the vessels. Used 
for high-grade construction, boat building, interior partitions and fur- 
nishings ; planks, rafters, sills, wharves ; piling ; furniture ; carabao yokes ; 
barrels; railroad ties. Considered as almost the equal of teak. 
Phil. Woods 374; Becc. 579; Gamb. 373, tab. VIII, fig. ^ ; Nord. X; Watt Diet. 
4:582; K. & V. 1:190-193; Van Eed. 146; Watt in Agric. Ledger (1907) No. 
9, 1-7. 
Several other species also produce wood of very good quality. 
SON NERATIACE2E. 
Crypteronia paniculata Bl. Krakas; tjelemgan; kajoe-ramo (M.). 
British India, Malay Peninsula and Malay Archipelago. 
Wood light-reddish-brown, moderately hard. Pores moderate-sized, 
scanty, usually subdivided radially. Pith-rays very numerous, fine, red, 
inconspicuous. Used for cabinet work. Other species used in the same 
manner. 
Gamb. 370; Van Eed. 145; Ridl. 180; K. & V. 1 : 203-205. 
Duabanga grandiflora (Eoxb.) Ham. (Duabanga sonneratioides Ham.; La- 
gerstroemia grandiflora Roxb.). 
British India and Burma. 
Wood gray, often streaked with yellow, soft, seasons well, neither 
warps nor splits. Pores large and moderate-sized, often oval and sub- 
divided, in roughly oblique lines. Pith-rays fine, very numerous, wavy. 
Used for canoes, tea-boxes, etc. 
Gamb. 376; Watt Diet. 3:196; Ridl. 179. 
Duabanga moluccana Bl. Loctob (Phil.); takir, kedjimas (Java). 
Philippines, Celebes, Java, Amboina, Bali. 
Wood soft, light-colored, not durable. Used for planks and small 
boats. 
K. & V. 1:195-197; Van Eed. 145. 
Sonneratia acida L. f. Pedada, p’dada (M.). 
British India, Ceylon, Burma, Malay Archipelago. 
Wood gra3g soft, even-grained. Pores small, oval and subdivided, very 
