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FOXWORTHY. 
Seasonal rings present or absent. Diffuse porous. Wood making a 
lather when rubbed with water or saliva. 
Uses.- — High grade construction; shipbuilding; keels of ships; stern- 
posts; wharves; piling; posts; doors; rafters; railroad ties. 
Structure. — Pith-rays veiy minute. Vessels small, in irregular, 
oblique radial rows, with yellowish deposits. Wood parenchyma in 
numerous minute tangential lines. 
Differs from bansalaguin in being softer and of lighter weight and 
color. 
Bull. For. Bur. Manila (1906), 4, 60; 2d ed. (1907), 4, 63. Ahern, 
1. c., 36-37. 
BITANHOL. 
See Palo Maria. 
BOLONGETA. 
Diospyros pilosanthera Blanco. Fam. EBENACE>E. 
Amara, amaga (V.) ; alintatao (T.) ; apopuyot (Cag.) ; ata-ata (V.) ; 
batolinao (Cag.) ; barlis, bolonguita (T.) ; dalondong (V.) ; ealohadia, 
caloyanang, galariga (T.) ; tamil (Yacan) ; malatalang (T.) ; tapilac 
(Moro). 
Philippines. 
Very heavy and very hard. 
Sapwood light pink; heartwood black or streaked. Grain close and. 
straight. 
Uses. — Fine furniture ; inside finish ; gun carriages ; railroad ties ; also, 
reported as being used for piling. 
Structure. — Pith-rays very minute. Vessels very small and scattered 
in small, radial lines. Wood parenchyma in numerous, very fine tan- 
gential lines. In the black heart nearly all details of structure are 
obscured by the black substance that fills all the elements. 
For discussion of this wood in connection with camagon and ebony, 
see ebony. 
0 ALAM AN SAN AY. 
Nauclea sp. Fam. RUBIACE^E. 
Flacourtia inermisRoxb. Fam. FLACOU RTI ACE/C. 
Malayan region. 
Terminalia calamansanai Rolfe. Fam. COMBRETACE/E, 
( Gimbernatia calamansanai Blanco. Terminalia bialaia Vid.) 
Philippines. 
Vidal thought it a species of Diospyros, Fam. Ebenac2E. 
The Terminalia species has been considered the source of this wood, 
but I think it more likely that it is a Nauclea. The only examples of 
calamansanay which we have as herbarium material are a Nauclea from 
