INDO-MALAYAN WOODS. 
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Axles, beams, bridges, cabinet making, carabao yokes, cogwheels, general 
high-grade construction, docks, doors, finishing of houses, firewood, floor- 
ing, footings in the ground, futtocks, palo (wooden club to pound rice), 
posts, joists, knees, piles, pillars, pinions, planks, plows, rafters, rice 
mortars, shipbuilding, cutwater, ships’ knees, ribs, frames, siding of 
houses, sleepers, sternposts, sugar presses, wedges, wheel rims, under sills, 
paving blocks, railroad ties. For many purposes, it seems to be fully the 
equal of teak. 
Phil. Woods 389; Gardner 55; Van Eed. 194; Boulger 217; Semler 685. 
Vitex pubescens Valil. Halban; calipapa; leban; kuzoe-arak; molave. 
British India, Burma, Andaman Islands, Borneo, Philippine Islands, Malay 
Archipelago and Peninsula. 
Wood smooth, reddish-brown or olive-brown, very hard, close-grained, 
seasonal rings marked by a more or less sharp line and by a broad belt 
of firmer wood on the outer edge. Pores small to moderate-sized, scanty, 
uniformly distributed. Pith-rays fine and very fine, numerous, equidis- 
tant. Difficult to distinguish from the preceding. Durable, used for 
structural work, mine-props, etc. 
Gamb. 541; Ridl. 218; Van Eed. 195; Iv. & V. 7:202-204. 
Other species of Vitex are also used, furnishing wood of excellent quality. 
BIGNONIACEJi. 
Pores usually moderate-sized, ringed or in patches of loose texture 
which are often oblique or confluent into more or less broken concentric 
belts; the3 r are often filled with resin. Pith-rays fine, regular. 
Bolichandrone. Pores rather scanty, small to moderate-sized, in 
oblique lines and sometimes in concentric bands. Pith-rays fine, numer- 
ous. Texture, color and hardness variable. 
Dol ichandrone spathacea (L. f.) K. Sch. ( D longissima (Lour.) K. Sell., 
D. rheedii Seem.) Tui (Phil.). 
Malabar to New Guinea. 
Wood white, soft. Pores small, often subdivided, in wavy, narrow, 
concentric bands. Pith-rays very fine, verjr numerous. Not durable. 
Used for temporary construction. 
Gamb. 512; Van Eed. 183; K. & V. 1:69-71; Becc. 581. 
Heterophragma. Pores moderate-sized, ringed. Pith-rays fine, the dis- 
tance between the rays being equal to or greater than the transverse 
diameter of the pores. No regular distinct concentric bands. 
Heterophragma adenophyllum Seem. 
British India. 
Sapwood light-yellow; heartwood orange-yellow, with occasional darker 
streaks, moderately hard to hard. Pores moderate-sized, ringed, filled 
with yellow resinous matter, uniformly distributed, but occasionally 
running into more or less concentric lines. Pith-rays fine to moderately 
