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it somewhat resembles, rays fine but rather distant, pores fairly 
large. Weight 49 lbs. 8 ozs. 
The wood is too soft to be of much use. It is said to be aroma- 
tic when burnt. 
A. P or ten , Hook;, fil. Pao-pao. 
A tree about 30 to 80 feet, somewhat similar to the last, is used 
in building but is not durable. 
Evodia glabra, Bl. 
A fairly tail tree with trifoliate leaves and corymbs of white 
flowers. Wood soft white, not heavy, pores rather large, rays 
irregular. Rark thin. Weight (S.) 20 lbs. 2 ozs. A common tree 
in woods. 
E. Roxburghiana . Renth. S’tengah Burong, 
A bush, hardly a tree. Maingay describes the wood as "reddish 
white, abundantly blotched with elongated patches of dull red or 
brown grain coarse, does not split in drying. Weight 28 lbs. 8 ozs." 
(Maingay), 51 lbs. (Gamble). 
Used for planking (Veth). 
OCHNACE^E. 
Gomphia Sumatrdna , Jack. 
A medium-sized tree with yellow flowers. Bark grey but fairly 
smooth yellow inside thin y 1 ^ inch dark brown in section. Wcod 
hard and heavy, pale brown to dark reddish brown with distinct 
irregular rings, pores very small numerous, rays fine and very fine 
mixed. A hard strong wood with wavy fibres rather apt to split. 
"Used for the manufacture of boats, pumps and blocks" (Maingay)' 
Weight 53 lbs. 14^ ozs. (Vlaingay), (S.) 55 lbs. 2 ozs. 
G. Hooker i r Plancb. Tampoi pay a. 
A small tree with narrow lanceolate leaves and deep red flowers. 
Common on the sea coasts in sandy spots. Wood very close 
grained brown, much resembling that of Erythroxylon burmani- 
cum , rings obscure, pores numerous close, rays very fine. 
Weight 60 lbs. 
Burserace/e. 
Trees of moderate size, seldom very large, some produce a resin, 
and that of Triomma Malaccensis is very aromatic and dark col- 
oured. The fruits of some of the Canariums are pickled, and the 
kernels of others eaten like walnuts. 
Canarium, nitidum , A. W. Benn, 
Medium-sized tree, wood light brown in transverse section grey, 
rays brown very irregular in size not numerous, pores medium in 
size scanty. Weight 13 lbs. 1 oz. Common in Singapore, Malacca 
and Perak. 
C. secundum , Benn. Kasambi Kasamba. 
Wood light red with rather large pores and scattered rays, rings 
not verv distinct, fibres wave, grain medium hard splits slightly in 
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