PHILIPPINE WOODS. 
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Heavy and very hard. Sp. gr. 0.758 to 0.909. 
Distinct sap- and heart-wood. Sapwood whitish or light yellow ; heart- 
wood dark reddish-brown. Grain straight. Seasonal rings distinct. 
Diffuse porous. 
Uses. — General high-class construction; posts of houses; sleepers; 
electric-light poles ; furniture ; cabinetmaking ; paving blocks ; beams ; 
bridge construction; doors; joists; keels; pillars; rafters; sleepers; stern- 
posts ; window frames ; railroad ties. 
Structure. — Pith-rays small but distinct. Vessels of medium size, 
scattered. Wood parenchyma clustered about the vessels. Vessels fre- 
quently containing sulphur-colored deposits. 
Bull. For. Bur. Manila (1906), 4, 55-6; 2d ed. (1907), 4, 59. Ahern, 
1. c., 54-57. 
LANETE. 
Wrightia laniti (Blanco) Merr. Fam. APOCYNACE/E. 
( Anasser laniti Blanco. Wrightia ovata A. DC..) 
Alanote (T.) ; bantolinao (B.) ; tanglras, tiguig (V.). 
Philippines. 
Moderately heavy and moderately hard. 
Seasonal rings present or absent. Diffuse porous. Fine and cross 
grained. White or pale yellowish. Vo distinct sap and heartwood. 
Disagreeable odor when fresh. 
Uses. — Carving and light construction; bolo scabbards; boxes; canes; 
cooking utensils ; chairs ; decoration ; furniture ; house construction ; 
musical instruments ; shoes ; trunks ; turning ; wardrobes ; window sills 
in native houses ; the most-used wood for wood carving. 
Structure. — Pith-rays small and short. Vessels small, in short, radial 
rows. 
Ahern, 1. c., pp. 57-59. 
LANOTAN. 
Bombycidendron campylosiphon (Tcz.) Warb. Fam. MALVACEAE. 
(Thespesia campylosiphon Rolfe. Hibiscus greioiaefolius (Hassle.) Miq. Hi- 
biscus vidalianus Naves. Hibiscus campylosiphon Tcz.) 
Philippines. 
Moderately heavy to heavy, and moderately hard. Sp. gr. 0.732. 
Seasonal rings distinct. Diffuse porous. Sap- and heart-wood very 
distinct. Sapwood light yellow or white; heartwood purple. Straight 
grained. 
Uses. — Cabinetmaking ; carriage building, shafts; flooring; ordinary 
construction ; ordinary furniture ; planks ; planking for ships ; shipbuild- 
ing ; telegraph poles ; sides of guitars and mandolins. 
Structure. — Pith-rays medium size, distinct. Vessels medium size or 
small, scattered. Tangential section showing fine, parallel, transverse 
markings as in narra and teluto. Fig. 27 shows these in longitudinal 
section. 
Ahern, 1. c., pp. 59-60. 
