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Pitli-rays few, moderately broad to broad, with many very fine between 
them. Beams for house building and plow handles. 
Van Eed. 139; Gamb. 355; Nord. IV (Myrtiis trinervia Sm.), VII (Myrtus 
melastomoides F. M.) ; Ridl. 174. 
Tristania. Wood hard to very hard and heavy to very heavy; durable. 
Reddish or dark-reddish; close-grained. Pores small; pith-rays small. 
Wood parenchyma scanty. 
Tristania burmannica Griff. 
British India and Malaya. 
Gamb. 354. 
Tristania decorticata Merr. Malabayabas. 
Philippines, Sarawak. 
Wood hard and heavy, fine-grained; dark-reddish-brown; used for tool 
handles. 
Tristania merguensis Griff. 
Straits Settlements. 
Ridl. 175. 
Tristania obovata Benn. Palawan, prawan. 
Banka, Sumatra, Borneo. 
Very fine firewood. Used for the tin and gold mines. 
Van Eed. 140; Bargagli-Petrucci 78, tab. XV. 
Tristania whitiana Griff. 
Singapore. 
Ridl. 175. 
Various species of Tristania are known in Borneo by the name of Pitman and 
the wood is used for firewood; Becc. 578, 585. 
Xanthostemon verdugonianus Xaves. Plate XXIX, fig. 90. Mancono 
(Phil.) 
Philippines; Surigao, Leyte, Palawan, Camarines. 
Very hard and very heavy. Probably the hardest and heaviest of 
Philippine woods. Exceedingly durable. A possible substitute for lig- 
num-vitce. 
Phil. Woods 388; Hutchinson, For. Bur. (Philip.) Bull. 9 (1908). 
MELASTOMATACEJ3. 
Wood heavy, hard, fine-grained. Usually light-colored. Pores and 
pith-rays fine to very fine. 
Astronia papetaria Blume. 
Malay Archipelago. 
Good structural wood. 
Van Eed. 144. 
Melastoma malabathricum L. Sendukduk. 
British India, Burma, and Ceylon. 
Gamb. 366; Ridl. 178. 
