INDOMALAYAN WOODS. 
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Stereosperm um suaveolens DC. 
British India and Ceylon. 
Wood hard; sapwood gray; heartwood small, yellowish-brown, beauti- 
fully mottled with darker streaks, very hard, seasons and polishes well. 
Pores moderate-sized, inclosed in patches of wood parenchyma which are 
more or less concentrically arranged and sometimes run together into 
concentric belts. Pores frequently filled with a white shining substance, 
which becomes yellow in the heartwood. Pith-rays fine, sharply defined, 
numerous, wavy, equidistant. Durable, easy to work and good for 
building, but the amount of heartwood is small. An excellent firewood 
and makes good charcoal. 
Gamh. 515; Watt Diet. 6 3 : 367 . 
RUBIACE2E. 
Wood white, yellow, or rarely red, close- and even-grained, generally 
hard or moderately hard; usually no heartwood. Pores small or very 
small ; in Anthocephalus cadamba and a few other species, moderate-sized. 
Pith-rays uniform, equidistant, fine or very fine, often closely packed. In 
Morinda the pores collect in patches, but otherwise the structure is very 
uniform. Many of the species have woods resembling boxwood, and 
worthy of practical test to see if they could not be used as substitutes 
for it. 
Adina. Wood yellowish, moderately hard to hard, even-grained. Pores 
small, numerous. Pith-rays fine and very fine, numerous. 
Adina cordifolia Hook. f. 
British India, Burma, Ceylon. 
Ho heartwood. Seasonal rings faint. Pores small, numerous, evenly 
distributed. Pith-rays very fine, short, numerous. Combs, turnery, 
house posts. Durable. 
Gamb. 401, tab. IX, fig. 2; Nord. VII, IX; Watt Diet. 1:114. 
Adina rubescens Ilemsl. Berombong (M.). 
Malay Peninsula. 
Heartwood yellow, with distinct rings. Hard and heavy wood suitable 
for building. 
Ridl. 209. 
Anthocephalus cadamba (Roxb.) Miq. Henhja, kajoe-koening (M.). 
Southeastern Asia, Malay Archipelago, New Guinea. 
Wood white, with a yellowish tinge, soft, even-grained. Pores large, 
oval, elongated, subdivided, sometimes in short radial lines, scanty. 
Pith-rays fine, numerous, close together, bent outward where they touch 
the pores. Structure very similar to that of Sarcoceplialus cordatus 
Miq. Structural work, joinery, tea-chests. 
Gamb. 400; Nord. IX; Watt Diet. 1 :266; Van Eed. 154; K. & V. 8:8-11. 
