INDO-MALAYAN WOODS. 
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Ixora. Wood brownish, hard, close-grained. Pores small. Pith-rays 
very fine, numerous, regular. Very numerous species but usually of 
relatively small size. 
Gamb. 420; Eidl. 211; K. & Y. 8:146-169. 
Pavetta and Coffea are much like the last. 
Mitragyne. Wood reddish- or yellowish-brown. Pores small to mod- 
erate-sized, not very numerous. Pith-rays fine, numerous, uniform. 
Wood cells usually rather large. 
Mitragyne parvifolia Korth. ( Stephegyne parvifolia Korth.) Kajoe mas, 
kajoe-koening (M. ). 
British India, Burma, Ceylon. 
AVood light-pinkish-brown, moderately hard, even-grained, much re- 
sembling that of Adina cor difolia, but rather harder, and at once 
recognized by its different color. Pores small, numerous, uniformly 
distributed. Pith-rays very fine, numerous, short. The wood is easily 
worked and polishes well ; it is durable, if not exposed to wet. It is used 
in building, furniture, agricultural implements, combs, cups, spoons and 
platters, and for turned and carved articles. 
Gamb. 403; Nord. YII and X; Van Eed. 155; K. & V. 8:38-40. 
Morinda tinctoria Roxb. Mengkudu. 
British India, Burma, Ceylon, Malay Peninsula and Archipelago. 
Wood red, often yellow with red streaks, moderately hard, close-grained. 
Seasonal rings fairly marked. Pores small, scanty, in radial or oblicpie 
groups, rather distant from each other. Pith-rays fine and moderately 
broad, rather distant. Durable ; plates and dishes. 
K. & V. 8:192-194; Gamb. 422; Ridl. 211. 
Nauclea sp. Plate XXX, fig. 106. Calamansanay. 
Philippines. 
Wood hard and heavy, yellow with a beautiful rose tint; close- and 
straight-grained. No seasonal rings. Pith-rays very fine, pores small 
and scattered. Used for flooring, masts of boats, beams in interior con- 
struction, posts for houses or in contact with the ground, shipbuilding, 
telegraph poles, window sills. 
Phil. Woods 378. 
Randia. Wood creamy-white, light-brown or grayish-brown, smooth, 
close-grained, hard. Pores small or very small, evenly distributed. Pith- 
rays fine and very fine, numerous. 
Randia dumetorum Lam. 
British India, Burma, Ceylon, Abyssinia, China, Sunda Islands. 
Seasonal rings marked by a belt without pores. Agricultural imple- 
ments, fences, fuel. 
Gamb. 413; Watt Diet. 6:391; K. & V. 8:96. 
