INDO-MALAYAN WOODS. 
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numerous, stopping at or bent round the pores or groups of pores. The 
wood takes a good polish and is fairly durable; it is used for furniture, 
carts, agricultural implements, and house building. Beddome says it 
is cross-grained and difficult to work. 
Gamb. 338-340, tab. VII, fig. 6; Nord. VIII; Watt Diet. 6 4 :24. 
Terminalia citrina Roxb., and T. angustifolia Roxb., of this section are two 
Indian species of local importance. 
SUBGENUS 2, PENTAPTERA. 
Terminalia arunja Bedd. Arjun (Beng.). 
Western India and Ceylon. 
Sapwood reddish-white; heartwood with darker-colored streaks, very 
hard and heavy. Seasonal rings doubtful. Pores moderate-sized and 
large, sometimes very large, uniformly distributed, more numerous and 
larger than in T. tomentosa, often subdivided into 2 to 4 compartments, 
each pore surrounded by a ring of wood parenchyma. Numerous, thin, 
wavy, concentric lines, which frequently anastomose. Pith-rays very 
fine and numerous. Wood apt to split in seasoning and not easy to work. 
Used for carts, agricultural implements, boats, and for building purposes. 
Gamb. 341; Van Eed. 126; Nord. IX (T. macrocarpa Steud.). 
Terminalia oliveri Brandis. Than (Burm.). 
Burma. 
Wood hard, close- and even-grained, resembling that of T. cheiu'a; 
sapwood yellow to gray ; heartwood purplish-brown, streaked and clouded, 
very irregular. Pores small or very small, numerous, often subdivided, 
singly or in groups surrounded by patches of loose tissue which run into 
more or less concentrically arranged bands. Pith-rays fine and very fine, 
numerous, regular. 
Gamb. 340. 
Terminalia tomentosa W. & A. 
India, Ceylon. 
Sapwood redclish-white ; heartwood dark-brown, hard, beautifully 
variegated with streaks of darker color, showing on a radial section as 
dark streaks which are generally undulating. Pores moderate-sized and 
large, uniformly distributed, each pore inclosed in an irregularly shaped 
and generally elongated patch of wood parenchyma; these patches are 
often arranged in concentric lines and frequently joined by thin, wavy, 
concentric bands. Pith-rays not distinct, very fine, numerous, uniform, 
equidistant, often wavy, the transverse diameter of the pores many 
times larger than the distance between the rays. House building, carts, 
rice-pounders, ship and boat building, railroad ties. 
Gamb. 341-344; Nord. VIII; Watt Diet. 6‘: 37-41. 
