.1 NDO-MALAYAN WOODS. 
Maesa rugosa Clarke. 
British India and Java. 
Gamb. 437. 
539 
Myrsine africana L. 
British India and South Africa. 
Wood liglit-brown, moderately hard. Pores extremely small, scat- 
tered or in short radial lines, between the distant, moderately broad 
pith-rays, which contain many resin-cells. 
Gamb. 438; Nord. V (M. retusa Ait.). 
SAPOTACErE. 
The wood of the Sapotacece has a well-marked character, somewhat 
difficult to describe accurately, but easily recognized when understood, 
as it resembles that of no other family except Ebenacece, where the woods 
are usually black or gray, while those of Sapotacece are usually red. Wood 
hard, smooth, durable; heartwood dark-colored, generally red. Pores 
small and moderate-sized, in wavy, radial lines, which are frequently 
oblique, the lines being more or less in echelon. Pith-rays numerous, 
fine, equidistant, joined by fine, transverse bars or concentric lines of 
loose texture. 
Eassia. Wood hard, smooth, durable, usually with red heartwood. 
Pores small and moderate-sized, in short radial or oblique lines, more or 
less in echelon. Pith-rays numerous, fine, equidistant, joined by fine 
transverse bars. 
Bassia latifolia Roxb. 
British India and Burma. 
Wood hard to very hard; sapwood large; heartwood reddish-brown. 
Seasonal rings indistinct. House building, furniture and country vessels, 
naves of wheels. 
Gamb. 447, tab. IX, fig. It; Nord. X. 
Chrysophyllum roxburghii G. Don. “Star apple.” 
British India, Java, Sumatra and Philippines. 
Wood white, close-grained, moderately hard. Pores in small radial 
lines bending into oblique strings. Pith-rays numerous, very fine. 
Shingles. 
Gamb. 443; Ridl. 212; K. & V. 1:130; Lewis 309. 
Xllipe. Wood soft to very hard and light to very heavy. Wood of 
some species very durable. Eeddish. At any rate the harder woods with 
a considerable amount of saponin in the wood, lathering when wet. 
1 1 1 i pe latifolia (Roxb.) Engler. (Bassia latifolia Roxb.) “Butter tree;” “ma- 
hua tree.” 
British India. 
Wood hard with red heart. 
Watt Diet. 1 : 445. 
