PHILIPPINE WOODS. 
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DUNGON-LATE. 
Heritiera littoralis Dry. Fam. STERCULI ACE/E. 
(Helicleres apetala Blanco. Sterculia cymbiformis Blanco.) 
Dungon-dungon (V.) ; dungon-late (T.) ; malarungon (T.). 
Tropics of the Old World. 
This is the same species as the snndri of Burma. 
Very hard and heavy, “63-75 lbs. per cu. ft.” 
Widely scattered in mangrove swamps throughout the Archipelago. 
Color as in dungon, but said to have a larger amount of sapwood. 
Uses . — Same as for dungon. 
Structure . — In all respects as in dungon. 
Uses. — Canoes; outriggers; firewood ; house posts; joists ; presses; ship- 
building; telegraph poles and posts for small houses; wheel hubs; same 
uses as dungon, if found in large sizes ; small sizes used as ribs for small 
boats. 
Ahern, 1. c., 49-50. 
EBONY. 
Maba buxifolia Pers. Fam. EBENACE/E. 
Diospyros spp. 
Ata-ata (V.) ; balatinao (II.) ; caloyanan (Pamp.) ; ebano (Span.) ; 
galarigal (T.) ; luyong (T.) ; malatalang (T.) ; tanguintin (Surigao). 
Tropical Africa to Australia. 
Very hard and very heavy. Sapwood ashy; lieartwood black, of even 
color. Pine and straight grained. No distinct seasonal rings. 
Uses . — Cabinetwork; canes; desks; furniture; frames; inlaid work; 
shipbuilding; saber handles. 
Structure . — Pith-rays very small and indistinct. Vessels very small 
and scattered. Wood parenchyma in numerous, very fine, concentric 
lines. All the elements of the heartwood full of a very dense, black 
substance.. 
Ebony, in the commerce of the world, is a heavy," hard black wood 
with the characteristic structure of the family Ebenacea There are, 
in the Philippine Islands belonging to the ebony group, woods known 
by the names of bolongeta, camagon, and ebano or ebony. The first of 
these, bolongeta, is furnished by Diospyros pilosanthera Blanco, and prob- 
ably by other species. Diospyros pilosanthera is a fair-sized tree in the 
ridge forests. It is of wide distribution in the Archipelago and may be 
said to be fairly abundant. Its wood is pink or red, streaked with black, 
the black streaks being very much denser and harder than the rest of the 
wood. 
Camagon is the name applied to the wood of Diospyros discolor Willd. 
and other Diospyros species, whenever the sapwood is grayish or mottled 
and the lieartwood black, with brownish streaks. 
By true ebony, in the Philippines, is usually meant the wood of Maba 
