1ND0-MALAYAN WOODS. 
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Palaquium borneense Burck. Njatoe-doerian. 
Borneo. ' 
Van Eed. 164. 
Palaquium javense Burck. Njatoli; njatoe; kawang; djempina; grawang. 
Java. 
Furniture and structural work. 
Van Eed. 105; K. & V. 1:143-145. 
Palaquium sp. Nyatto pisang. 
Sarawak. 
Very hard and durable. Boats. 
Palaquium obovatum Engl. Belian wangi. Betis. 
Timber very dull-reddish, grain medium, very hard and very heavy; 
splits slightly in drying; affords beams of excellent quality, which remain 
undecayed a long time under water and are not badly eaten by termites. 
Pith-rays tine, rings distinct and irregular with very tine concentric rings 
numerous and wavy. Pores moderate in short rows parallel with the 
rays, often subdivided, not very numerous. 
Bidl. 213; also in Agric. Bull. F. M. S. & S. S. (1906) 39; (1907) 171. 
Palaquium polyanthum Engl. 
British India. 
Wood red, hard. Pores moderate-sized, in wavy radial lines, some- 
times slightly oblique. Pith-rays fine, not prominent. Fine wavy, 
parallel and equidistant concentric lines. Planks, tool handles, etc. 
Gamb. 446 ; Nord. X. 
Palaquium bancanum Burck. 
Malay Peninsula. 
Wood reddish-brown, rays fine and close, pores moderate, in radial 
rows; rings fairly distinct, fiber wavy. A light wood with a good gloss. 
Bidl. 213. 
Numerous other species of Palaquium are used, most of them of not 
very good quality. 
The name nato, with its variants, is applied to this genus and its 
close relatives, gutta-percha bearing plants, all the way from Madagascar 
to the Pacific. In the Malay Peninsula the equivalent term is taban and 
in Sumatra balam. 
Becc. 579. 
Payena leerii Kurz. Gutah-sundik ; njatoe-balam-bringin; balam-tandjong; 
poeting ; getah-seundik ( M. ) . 
Malay Peninsula, Borneo, Sumatra, Banka, Riouw. 
Wood used for house building. 
Van Eed. 165; Bidl. 213. 
