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FOXWORTHY. 
Payena lucida A. DC. Niato balam. 
British India and Malay Peninsula. 
Wood red, hard. Pores moderate-sized, in short radial lines. Pith- 
rays very fine, very numerous, uniform, equidistant. Numerous parallel, 
wavy, concentric lines, not very prominent. Planking. 
Gamb. 449; Ridl. 213. 
Sarcosperma arboreum Benth. 
British India. 
Wood pink, moderately hard. Pores moderate-sized, in long,, wavy, 
radial lines. Pith-rays numerous, fine, equidistant, the distance between 
two rays much less than the diameter of the pores. Indistinct concentric 
lines. Used in making canoes. 
Gamb. 443. 
Sideroxylon ferrugi neum Hook. Tuak-tuak. 
Malay Peninsula. 
Wood hard and heavy, pinkish-brown in color, with very fine rays, 
and wavy concentric lines, the pores arranged in wavy lines radiating 
from the center, whiter than the ground color and giving the wood a 
pleasing mottled appearance. 
Ridl. 212; Van Eed. 165. 
Sideroxylon tomentosum Roxb. 
British India, Burma, and Ceylon. 
Wood light-yellowish-brown, moderately hard (plains specimens) to 
hard (hills specimens). Pores fine (hills) to moderate-sized (plains), 
in groups in short lines, usually oblique, the groups somewhat far apart 
and in echelon. Pith-rays very fine, very numerous, equidistant. Very 
numerous, very faint lines across the rays, irregular. Structural work. 
Gamb. 444. 
Many other species of Sideroxylon are used locally, but they do not commonly 
occur in much quantity and so are not of much importance commercially. 
Bedaru, Daru, or Daroo-daroo. This wood has been credited to this 
family at various times. Ridley (214) says that it is evidently sapota- 
ceous. King and Gamble in their materials for a Flora of the Malay 
Peninsula, 2 under the description of Sideroxylon malaccense Clarke, 
make the following statement: “Mr. Cantley (the collector) says that 
this tree gives the true ‘darn-dam 5 wood of the Malay Peninsula.” 
The wood now known as bedaru or daru in Sarawak and Singapore 
is distinctly not sapotaceous in structure. (See p. 492.) I have collected 
herbarium material and wood from the same tree in Sarawak and have 
compared the wood with the material sold under that name by the timber 
dealers at Singapore and have found the two to be identical'. It is a 
species of Urandra (I cacinaceae) . 
2 Journ. As. Soc. Beng. 74 2 :162. 
