550 
FOXWORTHY. 
Fagraea speciosa Bl. Tembusu tembaga; tembusu talang; tembusu paya. 
Malay Peninsula. 
Wood like that of F. fragrans but more compact and resinous, with a 
strong odor and showing no concentric lines. Yery durable. House 
beams, bridges and planks. 
Ridl. 216. 
Fagraea wallichiana Benth. 
Malay Peninsula. 
Very heavy and darker in color than that of other species. A very 
fine compact wood. 
Ridl. 217. 
Strychnos nux-vomica L. Kajoe-oelar; “snakewood;” “strychnine tree;” 
bidara-paliit. 
Ceylon, British India, Burma, Java. 
Wood white, close-grained, durable. No heartwood, no seasonal rings. 
Pores of two classes ; large pores very scanty ; very small pores numerous, 
in irregular ramified patches, which are joined by concentric and oblique 
white lines. Pith-rays white, fine and moderately broad, numerous, 
sharply defined in the darker tissue. The large pores, which are prom- 
inent as white streaks on a vertical section are filled with a white pith- 
tissue, and sometimes ramify; they majr be not vessels, but large inter- 
cellular ducts. The wood is bitter and is not eaten by white ants. Used 
for plow-shares, car-wheels, cots and fancy cabinet work. 
Gamb. 497; Watt Diet. 6 3 : 382 ; Van Eed. 190; K. & V. 9:65-68; Boulger 274. 
Other species of Strychnos are also used, but their wood has a structure 
like that just described. 
APOCYNACE2E. 
Wood white, soft to hard, even-grained, rarely with heartwood. Pores 
small or very small, scanty, in short or long radial groups. Pith-rays 
very fine, very numerous. Occasional light concentric lines as in 
A Istonia. 
Alstonia macrophylla Wall. Plate XXX, fig. 97. Batino. 
Philippines. 
Much harder than A. scholaris. Without the white concentric lines. 
Pores distinctly in radial rows. Structural work. 
Phil. Woods 377. 
Alstonia scholaris (L.) R. Br. Plate XXX, fig. 98. Dita; chatwan; Plai; 
“corkwood.” 
British India and Ceylon to New Guinea and Australia, Philippines. 
Wood white, soft, even-grained, seasons badly, and soon gets moldy 
and discolored if allowed to season in the log. Pores moderate-sized, 
oval, subdivided, ringed, scanty. Pith-rays fine, wavy, irregularly 
distributed, with numerous intermediate extremely fine rays. Numerous 
