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FOXWORTHY. 
Marlea ebenacea C. B. Clarke. Lidah kerbau putih. 
Straits Settlements. 
Wood hard, strong, and durable, yellow with a red heart. 
Ridl. 180. 
Marlea nobilis C. B. Clarke. Sutubal. 
Straits Settlements. 
Hard and durable; structural work. 
Ridl. 180. 
Mastixia arborea C. B. Clarke. 
British India and Ceylon. 
Wood greenish-gray, soft. Pores small, numerous, evenly distributed. 
Pith-rays fine and very fine, numerous and short. Seasonal rings indis- 
tinct. 
Gamb. 391. 
MYRSINACE2EJ. 
Wood compact, close-grained. Pores very small or extremely small, 
often in groups or in radial or oblique lines. Pith-rays distant, fine to 
broad, more often broad. Resin-ducts frequent, sometimes among the 
wood cells, sometimes in the rays. 
Aegiceras corniculatum (L.) Blanco ( Aegicercis majus Gaertn.). Tinduc- 
tinducan (Phil.); truntum (M. ). 
A constituent of the mangrove swamp, Ceylon to the Philippines and Australia. 
Wood reddish or dark-brown, often streaked with yellow, moderately 
hard, even-grained. Pores very small, scanty, uniformly distributed. 
Pith-rays moderately broad to broad, short, scanty, dark, yellow in spots. 
Very oily; used in structural work and for firewood. 
Gamb. 442; Ridl. 212; Van Eed. 161; K. & V. 5:276-278. 
Aegiceras floridum Roem. & Schult. Plate XXIX, fig. 92. 
Philippines, Amboina, New Guinea. 
Very much like the preceding. 
Ardisia. Wood moderately hard. Pores small, usually in radial lines. 
Pith-rays broad. 
Ardisia paniculata Roxb. 
British India. 
Wood pinkish-white, moderately hard. Pores small, in radial lines. 
Pith-rays short, broad, wavy. 
Gamb. 441. 
Maesa. Wood light-brown, soft. Pores small, scanty, sometimes in 
short radial lines, often filled with resin. Pith-rays usually fine, numer- 
ous. 
Maesa indica (Roxb.) Wall. 
British India and Ceylon. 
Brownish-white wood, used for posts. 
Gamb. 438; K. & V. 5:222-224. 
