The Philippine Journal of Science, G. Botany. 
Yol. VI, No. 3, July, 1911. 
BEDARU AND BILLIAN : TWO IMPORTANT BORNEO 
TIMBER TREES. 
By Fred W. Foxworthy. 
( From the Botanical Section of the Biological Laboratory, Bureau of Science, 
Manila, P. I.) 
BEDARU. 
Urandra corniculata (Becc.) comb. nov. 
Platea corniculata Becc. in Malesia T (1877) ,117. 
This plant .is variously known as bedaru, bedaro,. pedaro, daru and daroo. It 
produces a wood which is very highly esteemed 1 and which is undoubtedly one 
of the best in Borneo. The wood is best known in Sarawak; but it is also to 
be found oh the Singapore market and is said to come from Sumatra. 
Flowering material, furnished by Mr. J. C. Moulton, Curator of the Sarawak 
Museum, was sent to Dr. Beccari for comparison. Dr. Beccari writes that this 
material represents the species described by him under the name of Platea corni- 
culata, from rather incomplete material in the botanic gardens at Buitenzorg. 
It is apparent to me, from examining the material sent by Mr. Moulton, that 
the plant is a Urandra. It is therefore necessary to make the new combination 
Urandra corniculata (Becc.) Foxw. This plant is represented in the herbarium 
of the Bureau of Science by good flowering material collected by Mr. J. C. Moulton 
near Kuching in May 1909 and by Foxworthy 10Jf, in bud, collected near Lundu, 
Sarawak, May 1908. 
BILLIAN. 
Eusideroxylon zwageri Teijsin. & Binn. in Natur. Tijdschr. Nederl. Indie 
25 (1862) 292, pi.; Benth & Hook. f. Gen. ’ Plant. 3 1 (1880) 155; Miquel, 
Sumatra, seine Pfianzenwelt (1862) 93; Van Eeden, Houtsoorten van Neder- 
landsehe Oost-Indie, Bui. Kol. Mus. te Haarlem (1906) 205; Beccari, Nelle 
foreste di Borneo 581; Bargagli-Petrucei, in Malpighia (1902) 18; Foxwortliy 
in Philip. Journ. Sei. 4 (1909) Bot. 452; Ridley in Agrie. Bull. S. S. & F. M. S. 
1 ( 1901 ) 247 ; Blits, De Anatomische .Bouw der Oost-Indische Ijzerhoutsoorten, 
Bui. Kol. Mus. te Haarlem 19: 27. 
Bihania borneensis Meissn. in DC. Prodr. 16 1 (1864) 96. 
Eusideroxilon borneense Villar Noviss. App. (1880) 179. Villar reduced 
Salgada lawriflora, Blanco, FI. Filip, ed. 2 (1845) 221 to this. He was mistaken 
in considering that species an Eusideroxylon. It is really a Gryptocarya, as 
Merrill has shown. 2 
1 Indo-Malayan Woods, This Journal 4 (1909) Bot. 492. 
2 Bur. Govt. Lab. Publ. (Philip.) 27 (1905) 73; Philip. Journ. Sci. 4 (1909) 
Bot. 254, Gryptocarya lauriflora (Blanco) Merr. 
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