INDO-MALAYAN WOODS. 
547 
Diospyros pilosanthera Blanco. Bolongeta. 
Philippines. 
This is a very good example of those ebonies which have a streaked 
heart and reddish sapwood. It is of equal beauty with camagon. 
Phil. Woods 378. 
Diospyros chloroxylon Roxb. The so-called “green ebony” of central and 
southern India. 
Wood yellowish-gray, moderately hard. The greenish tinge seems not 
to be pronounced. Used principally for firewood. 
Wiesner 2:1005; Gamb. 458; Nord. VII (D. tomentosa Poir.) . 
Maba buxifolia Pers. Plate XXIX, fig. 95. Ebano; iron wood. 
British India, Ceylon, tropical Africa, Madagascar, Burma, Malay Peninsula, 
Malay Archipelago to Australia. 
Sapwood white; heartwoocl even dead black. Small pieces of ebony 
of good quality. Used for small ornaments, anchors for boats, etc. 
Gamb. 452; Watt Diet. 5:102; K. & V. 1:23-25; Phil. Woods 383. 
Wiesner 2:986-991 gives a discussion of ebonywood. Other discussions of 
ebony are found in Stevenson 258-261, Holtzapffel 83, and Boulger 169. 
SYMPLOCACEvE. 
Wood white, close-grained, soft to hard. Pores small, numerous, 
usually evenly distributed. Pith-rays fine and moderately broad, the 
latter short. 
Symplocos crataegoides Ham. 
British India and Burma. 
Turnery and carving. 
Gamb. 464, tab. X, fig. 1; Nord. VIII. 
Many other species are found, but they are ordinarily rather small or of scanty 
occurrence. 
STYRACACEfiE. 
Wood white to light-brown, moderately hard, close-grained. Pores 
small, scanty, usually subdivided. Pith-rays short, fine, very numerous. 
Faint, white, regular, concentric, transverse bands. 
Sty rax benzoin Dryand. Menjan; kemajan; kamian; kajoe-limoeta. 
Siam, Malacca, Sumatra, Java. 
Wood of but little value, though it is occasionally used in house build 
ing and for bridges. 
Van Eed. 171; Pierre 260; Ridl. 215. 
Styrax serrulata Roxb. 
British India and Burma. 
Gamb. 467. 
