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FOXWORTHY. 
liusin, macaasin, mancono, mangachapuy, narra, palo maria, sasalit, supa, 
tamayuan, tucan-calao, yacal. 
For railroad ties : Molave, ipil, acle, betis, aranga, dungon, yacal, tindalo, 
sasalit, supa, anubing, banaba, bolongeta, agoho. In addition to these, the 
following have been recommended by the Forestry Bureau as worth testing: 
Toog, dao (Dracontomelum sp.), apitong, amuguis, banuyo, malaruhat (Eugenia 
sp. ) , palo maria. 
For paving blocks : Molave is the only native wood which is known to be 
satisfactory as a paving block. Several of the woods used for railroad ties should 
be tried for this purpose. 
3. For use as construction timbers. — For heavy framing and general high- 
grade construction : Acle, agoho, alupag, aranga, banaba, bansalaguin, batiti- 
nan, betis, catmon, dungon, dungon-late, ipil, liusin, macaasin, mangachapuy, 
molave, narra, palo maria, sasalit, supa, tamayuan, tucan-calao, yacal. 
For medium-grade construction: Anubing, lumbayao, guijo, malasantol, malu- 
gay, lanotan, calamansanay, banuyo, batete, apitong, amuguis, tanguile. 
For light or temporary construction : Balacat, balinhasay, bancal, batino, 
calantas, calumpit, cupang, duguan, dalinsi, dita, lanete, white lauan, red lauan, 
malapapaya, mayapis, nato, sacat, santol, talisay. 
4. For use in making furniture and ornaments. — For the better grades of 
furniture there are used: Tindalo, acle, palo maria, catmon, teak, supa, ipil, 
narra, calamansanay, banuyo. 
Cheap furniture is made of guijo, bancal, apitong, calumpit, dalinsi, sacat, 
talisay, dita, santol, baticulin, batete, malugay. Tanguile, red and white lauan, 
apitong and lumbayao' make cheap furniture of excellent quality. 
Besides the above-mentioned woods the following are used in cabinet making: 
Anubing, aranga, banaba, bansalaguin, camagon, bolongeta, ebony, lanete, lano- 
tan, macaasin, tucan-calao, yacal, narra. Lanete, molave, and santol are among 
the woods used for wood carving. 
III. KEY TO PHILIPPINE COMMERCIAL WOODS. 
It has been the effort to make this key cover all the woods in the first 
three groups on which the Bureau of Internal Revenue collects a tax; 
and in addition, such of the fourth-group woods as are commonly found 
on the Manila market. The one wood of the first three groups which has 
not been included is malacadios. Specimens of wood bearing this name 
have been received from several different provinces. These specimens 
represent three or four widely different species. Repeated effort has 
failed to discover here a wood bearing the name of “malacadios;” al- 
though a number of dealers have said that it is occasionally found in the 
Manila market. ' We must, for the present, leave this wood out of our 
consideration. 
EXPLANATION OF THE TERMS USED IN THE KEY. 
N on-porous and porous woods. (See p. 354.) 
Seasonal rings (see p. 355). — These are defined by a line at either 
margin or by the greater density of structure in the outer part of the ring. 
Ring porous . — With one or more rows of large vessels in the early part 
of the ring ; the later part of the ring having the vessels smaller and 
scattered. 
