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size. Used for piling, roof supports, etc., specially prized as a high- 
grade firewood. 
Iv. & V. 4:287-289; Van Eed. 127. 
Ceriops tagal (Perr.) C. B. Rob. (C. candolleana Arn.). Tangal (Phil.); 
tengah (M. ). 
Same distribution as the last. 
Same kind of wood and same uses. Shipbuilding. 
Watt Diet. 2:261; K. & V. 4:284-287; Van Eed. 127; Ridl. 172. 
Gynotroches axillaris Bl. Mata keli; koelcoeran (M.). 
Malay Peninsula and Archipelago. 
Wood soft, moderately heavy, not durable, light-brownish. Used for 
house work, rafters, blades of oars, etc. 
Iv. & V. 4:306-213; Ridl. 173. 
Kandelia rheedii W. & A. Tumu (M.). 
British India to Formosa and Malaya. 
Much less common than the preceding and but little used. Pith-rays 
said to be distinct from the rest of the wood because of a distinct 
yellow color. 
Iv. & V. 4: 290. 
Rhizophora conjugata L. Bakko, Akit (M.) ; Bacauan (Phil.). 
Tidal forests of eastern Africa, Asia, and Australia. 
"Very hard and very heavy; like the next. 
Ridl. 172; Iv. & V. 4:282; Van Eed. 128. 
Rhizophora mucronata Lam. Plate XXIX, fig. 86. Belukap, b'lukap (M.) ; 
bacauan (Phil.). 
Principal constituent of the mangrove on the Zanzibar coast (there called 
mkonko ) , then in the Seychelles, Madagascar, the whole of tropical Asia, through 
Malaya to Australia. 
Much valued for construction work in regions of east Africa where 
timber is scarce. Piling, firewood. 
Ridl. 172; Gamb. 335; Wiesner 2:123; Iv. & V. 4:278-282; Boulger 241; Van 
Eed. 128; Newton 6; Holtzapffel 93. 
I can not distinguish the wood of Rhizophora spp. from that of Bruguiera spp. 
COMBRETACE2E. 
KEY TO THE GENERA OF COMBRET ACE.T5 . 
Pores more or less connected and surrounded by wood parenchyma. 
Pores medium-sized to small Anogeissus 
Pores medium-sized to large Terminalia 
Pores not surrounded nor connected by wood parenchyma, small and in short 
radial lines ■. Lumnitzera 
