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hard and heavy, the rings tine and distinct, the pores numerous. 
Weight 53 lbs. & 1 
This plant with its wood was sent to me from Tampin as Resak, 
u it is not what is commonly known as Resak in J ohore and 
elsewhere, although the timber is very similar. It has never been 
met with elsewhere. 
Sh. gratissima , Dyer. 
Tree rather smaller than most of the Serayahs. Leaves small 
2 0 3 inches long, ovate blunt quite glabrous, coriaceous, polished. 
lowers small white secund with a pubescent calyx. Fruit small, 
wings narrow 2^ inch long, £ inch wide. Not a very commot/tree 
here. 1 have only met with it in Singapore. 
The wood is said to be cross-grained, the heart-wood bkmvnf'S 
very hard. t \ 
Hopea. 
The trees of this genus resemble the Shoreas, but the flowers - 
are usually much smaller and there are onR two long wings to the 
fruit instead of three. 
About eight species are known from the Peninsula. 
//. intermedia , King, jankang, Merawan Kunyit, Mengarawan. 
A very tall straight tree attaining a height of 100 feet and a 
diameter of 6 feet, the bark is brown and conspicuously longitudi- 
nally furrowed. The leaves are ovate, lanceolate, caudate, perfectly 
smooth above and very close veined beneath. The flowers small, 
the fruit is small with red oblanceolate wings with about 7 veins 
and 1 1 inch long. A dark brown rather coarse wood, with rather 
arge pores, and fine but obscure rays. A peculiarity of this wood 
is that the rings are often marked out with irregular thin white 
lines. These consist of lines of pores filled up with solid damar. 
this gives the wood in transverse section an appearence of having 
white threads through it whence it is sometimes known as Meranti 
sutra. Weight 45 lbs., 37 lbs. 2 ozs. 
Merawan is generally considered as an inferior Serayah and 
used for the same purposes. A good deal of the common planking 
sold as Serayah, appears to be Merawan. The tree is very com- 
mon all over the plain country. 
Anisoptera. 
A,, 1 ?" 6 . are f. ev f ral s P ecies ° f this genus in the Malay Peninsula. 
All are gigantic trees resembling Shoreas, but distinguished by the 
fruit which has the calyx tube adhering to it, so tbatfhe two wings 
appear to rise from the top instead of from the bottom of the fruft. 
A. Curtisii, Dyer. Rengkong. 
JZ r r ° W f T 8 leaVCS t;, P erin '? t0 both and covered 
vMth yellow scales beneath, especially conspicuous when dry. 
and verv°h° 'V 3 ^ y . d '°" ish colour > with rather large pores 
and very fine close rays; rings tolerably regular but not very dis- 
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