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Dipterocarpus Grandiflorus, D. pterygocalyx, Scheff. 
Minyak Kruing Dadek. 
A gigantic tree attaining the height of upwards of 200 feet and a 
diameter of 2 feet or more. Bark hard grey wrinkled with small 
transverse grooves, about ^ inch thick. Leaves very large ovate 
elliptic with a broad base, edges crenulate, glabrous, strongly ribbed. 
Flowers 2 inches long pinkish cream color. Fruit red, the largest of 
any species oblong with five strong keels or ridges and two large 
oblong wings (calyx lobes) nine inches long and two inches a- 
cross. The very large fruit easily distinguishes this. It is com- 
mon all over the Peninsula. 
The timber is hard and fairly heavy, very resinous, deep red 
brown and close grained, the rings fairly distinct and numerous, 
pores numerous and close rather large and arranged in groups and 
irregular bands, rays numerous very close, unequal light coloured. 
There is a certain amount of sapwood about ^ of the trunk. 
Weight 50 lbs. 8 02s. The wood is not considered good, as it is 
apt to break up, but is sometimes used in building. 
I he oil soon sets into alight brown resin almost completely. 
It is used in varnish either fresh before it sets or mixed with other 
oils and so redissolved. 
D. crinitus, Dyer. Gombang. 
This tree attains a height of about a hundred and fifty feet, and 
is easily recognized by its hairy branches and leaves. The leaves 
are ovate stiff and hard and covered w'ith stiff yellow hairs espe- 
cially along the midrib. The flowers are large, pink coloured and 
sweet scented. The fruit is rather small for the genus, quite 
smooth and not ribbed or winged. 
It is common all over the Peninsula. 
The timber is good and strong being suitable for bridges and 
house building. It is dark brown in colour with rather large pores, 
and fine rays not very close but rather irregularly placed, "the rings 
are obscure. It is a fairly heavy wood. 
The oil is known as Minyak Keruing Bulu. Weight 62 lbs. 2 ozs. 
(Maingay), S. 25 lbs. 6 ozs. 
The bark is used for house building. 
Shorea leprosula, Miq. Seraya Batu. 
Shorea Meranti Burk. 
A lofty tree over 100 feet tall, the stem straight about three feet 
through with thick but low buttresses. Bark grey rough lonaitud- 
in ally flaking. Leaves oblong with broad bases five inches’’ Ion o- 
and two-and-a-half wide or smaller, light shining green, with 1% 
pairs of veins smooth above and rough beneath with numerous 
transverse nervules connecting the veins, especially conspicuous 
beneath where the nerves and midrib are also thickened. The 
petiole is short and thick about half an inch long. It is roughened 
with small red points visible with a lens. The whole leaf has a 
rough feel, due to some remarkable tufts of short hairs visible un- 
der the microscope. The flowers are small and white. 
