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Pentacme malayana , King “ Teinah Batu’ . 
A straggling much branched tree of no great size about fifty feet 
tall with very thick brown bark nearly an inch through, rough an. 
longitudinally ridged leaves rounded ovate, or elliptic. 
Flowers rather large |- of an inch across white with spreading 
petals, produced in the dry season when the tree is nearly leafless 
in few flowered panicles. 
Fruit red ovate, the three outer calyxlobes enlarged and recticu- 
late 4 inches long, the two minor ones narrower, 2 inches long. 
Sapwood and heartvvood distinct, the former yellowish fairly hard 
Heart wood hard and close deep brown, rings large and distinct, 
medullary rays very fine and numerous. Pores numerous. Weight 
70 lbs. 3 ozs. 
Lankawi Islands. This curious tree grows on limestone rocks 
above the sea. It is rather irregular in habit and would in most 
places be difficult to get' good beams of. The timber resembles, 
however Damar laut, and would evidently be of first class quality 
if procurable in quantity and of good size. The allied P. sinnensis 
is said to give a highly prized and durable wood. fP'erre flor a for 
Cochin-china (Gamble). 
Balanocarpus . — In this genus, the “Chengei” of the Malays, the 
fruit is a globose or conical nut, enclosed at the base in a cup 
formed of the enlarged calyx, something like that of an acorn, and 
with no wings. The trees are usually large, sometimes gigantic. 
The Chengeis are as regards the timber ail very much alike, hard 
and yellow when fresh cut turning eventually dark brown. 
Chengei Tan dole, is a very large tree, the timber of which is very 
close grained and fairlv heavy, the pores very numerous and close 
rather large, and usually contain much resin, the rays are daiker 
than the woody fibres, close and conspicuous. It is a very good 
timber, for beams, machinery work, boats, etc., I met with it in the 
Bindings. 
Weight 49 lbs. 8 ozs. to 56 lbs. 6 ozs. 
The Chengei of Province Wellesley is Balanocarpus Heitnu , 
King., and Wray says that B. Wrayi, King, of Perak is known 
there as Chingi or Chingal, 
B. pinangianus, King. Damar hitam. 
Is a big tree about 60 or 70 feet tall, about 18 inches through, 
occurring in Penang and Perak. 
The wood is fairly heavy but rather loose in texture for the genus, 
the pores are medium size, and the rays very irregular. It is of the 
same yellowish colour when fresh cut as are many of the other 
Chengeis. 
Weight 4 lbs. 3 ozs. 
B. maximus , King. Penak, Chengai. 
A vast tree growing chiefly on the hill ranges of Selangor, and 
also in Johore. It has stiff oblong or elliptic leaves. 1 he bark is 
very thick nearly an inch through and corky. I he fruit is about 2 
inches long cyjindric, the sepals forming a toothed cup at the base. 
