AGRICULTURAL BULLETIN 
OF THE 
STRAITS 
AND 
FEDERATED MALAY STATES. 
No. 3.] DECEMBER, 1901. [Vol. I. 
THE TIMBERS OF THE MALAY PENINSULA. 
Continued. 
LINE/®. 
Erythroxylnm burmanicum , Griff. Me dang Lagundi, 
Chintah Mulab. 
A common tree in sandy spots near the coast, usually about 20 
or 30 feet tail but attaining a great height, rather bushy with small 
dark green leaves. Flowers small greenish, fruit a small red 
drupe" Bark wrinkled, fissured and corky, grey, wood heavy and 
compact dark red or brown with distinct but irregular rings, rays 
very fine and numerous, pores copious and small. Weight 57 lbs. 
It gives a good ordinary building timber, though not often very 
large, but beams squaring 5 or 6 inches can be obtained. 
Ixonanthes icosandra , Jack. Pagar Anak. 
A straight tree 50 or 60 feet tall with coriaceous leaves, cymes 
of green flowers, on long peduncles and capsular fruit with winged 
seeds. Common in woods all over the Peninsula. Bark thin | 
inch thick, sapvvood scanty, heartwood pale brown to reddish 
brown, heavy and fairly hard, rings fairly distinct narrow and 
irregular, rays very numerous close and fine, pores very numerous 
and small, in short irregular lines, concentric lines fine wavy 
broken up. A good building wood, but is apt to split in drying. 
Beams 5 to 6 inches square can be obtained. 
Weight 59 lbs. 7! ozs., 55 lbs. 6ozs. (Maingay) ; Singapore 54 lbs. 
/. reticulata , Jack. Jinjagong (Maingay). 
An equally large tree with rounder leaves and much larger 
capsules, occurs in woods usually at a higher elevation, up to 3,000 
feet. The wood is fairly heavy, white (brownish olive or dirty) 
white with brownish stria;. (Maingay), pores rather large. 
Good for building. Weight 42 lbs. io£ ozs. to 48 lbs. 4 ozs. 
(Maingay), common in the low country and also on the hills to 
3,000 feet altitude, Singapore to Kedah. 
