INDO- MALAYAN WOODS. 
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Memecylon. Wood very hard, close-grained, brown or whitish. Pores 
small, in irregular groups. Pith-rays many, extremely fine to fine. 
Memecylon edule Roxb. Nipis kulit; “ironwood tree.” 
India, Ceylon, Malaya. 
Valuable hard durable wood, which is one of the best substitutes for 
boxwood. (See p. 426.) 
Gamb. 368; Watt Diet. 5:226; Ridl. 178; K. & V. 5:210; Becc. 579. 
Pternandra caerulescens Jack. 
British India, Burma, Straits Settlements. 
Wood light and soft. 
Gamb. 368; Ridl. 178. 
AEALIACEJG. 
Wood white, usually soft. Pores small, usually rather scanty; a 
line of larger pores often indicating the seasonal rings. Pith-rays mod- 
erately broad, not numerous, giving a silver-grain. 
Aralidium pinnatifidum Miq. Alus surat. 
Straits Settlements. 
Wood faint-dull-red, hard, splits deeply in drying. Upright supports 
of bridges and heavy work of a similar description. 
Ridl. 180; Gamb. 384. 
Polyscias nodosa Seem. Plate XXIX, fig. 91. Malapapaya. 
Philippines and Malay Archipelago. 
Matchwood; the best wood for this purpose in the Philippines. 
Phil. Woods 387; K. & V. 7:11-13; Van Eed. 151. 
CORNACEfiE. 
Pores usually small and in short radial lines, and the pith-rays fine and 
numerous. 
Alangium lamarckii Thw. 
East Indies. 
Hard, close-, and even-grained, sapwood light-yellow, heartwood 
olive-brown, with a pleasant scent. Pores small, scanty, in short radial 
lines of 2 to 5. Pith-rays fine, closely packed, wavy, bent round the 
pores, the diameter of which is slightly greater than the distance between 
the rays. 
Watt Diet. 1 : 155 ; Gamb. 389. 
Marlea begoniaefolia Roxb. 
British India, Java, Philippines. 
Wood white, soft, even-grained. Seasonal rings marked by a belt 
of numerous pores. Pores moderate-sized and large, small in the outer 
portion of each ring. Pith-rays short, wavy, fine and moderately broad. 
Structural work. 
Gamb. 389; K. & V. 5:82-84. 
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