INDO-MALAYAN WOODS. 
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Anogeissus. Wood gray usually with a. small purple-brown heartwood, 
hard, close-grained. Pores small, in light-colored patches sometimes 
arranged more or less concentrically (A. latifolia and A. acuminata), 
sometimes radially (A. penclula). Pith-rays fine, uniform, equidistant. 
Anogeissus latifolia Wall. 
British India. 
"Very hard and very heavy. Seasonal rings marked by lines without 
pores. Pores small, very numerous, often subdivided, surrounded either 
singly or in loose patches by wood parenchyma, the patches arranged 
obliquely or transversely in a roughly concentric fashion. Pith-rays 
very fine, extremely numerous, uniform, equidistant. Transverse di- 
ameter of the pores about equal to the distance between the pith-rays. 
Very strong and tough, but splits in seasoning and unless kept dry is 
not very durable. Ax handles, poles for carrying loads, axles of carts, 
furniture, agricultural implements, shipbuilding. Good fuel and ex- 
cellent charcoal. 
Gamb. 346, tab. VII, fig. -1; Nord. X, also IX ( Conocarpus ) ; Watt Diet. 1 :257. 
Lumnitzera littorea (Jack) Voigt (L. coccinea W. & A.). Plate XXIX, fig. 
87. “Red-flowered mangrove;” nafia (Guam) ; culasi, sagasa, tabao (Phil.) ; 
taruntum, griting (M.) ; doekoek, doekoek-ageng (Jav. ) ; taroengtoeng (Suma- 
tra); api-api (Java and Sumatra). 
British India and Ceylon to Australia and Polynesia; a mangrove swamp tree. 
Wood hard and heavy, grayish- or yellowish-brown, occasionally with 
a certain reddish tinge. Fine-grained, with faint rose-like odor when 
first cut. Irregular seasonal rings said to be sometimes present. Pores 
small, in short radial lines. Pith-rays fine, numerous, the distance 
between them about equal to the diameter of the pores. Wood strong 
and durable. Used for piling, with the bark on. In Borneo, this wood 
is considered as second only to billian for piling, and much of it is 
exported for that purpose. On the Malay Peninsula it is used for the 
axles of carts. Used for boat building by the natives of Kaiser Wil- 
helmsland. Not much used in the Philippines, although it is very 
widely distributed. 
Ridl. 173; Van Eed. 129; Safford 385; Bece. 578: Bargagli-Petrueci 77, tab. 
XIV ; K. & V. 9:31-33. 
Lumnitzera racemosa Willd. Kripa (Beng.) ; yinye (Burm.). 
Tropical east Africa, Madagascar, Ceylon, British India, Burma, Java, New 
Guinea, Australia, Polynesia, Philippines, and Formosa. 
This is a much smaller and less important tree than the last, but it is 
said to be very important as a firewood in some sections. The wood is 
strong and durable and is sometimes used for house posts. 
Gamb. 348; Iv. & V. 9:33; Watt Diet. 5:97. 
