ioo 
A. odor at a> Lour. 
Small tree cultivated for its sweet flowers, native of China. 
Wood rather light reddish brown, rings narrow fairly distinct, 
pores exceedingly numerous very small, arranged in rows parallel 
to the rings, rays very obscure, concentric rings very fine and 
numerous. Weight 76 lbs. 9 ozs. 
A. argentea , Bl. Modu. 
A fair sized treeTiot very common. Used for house beams but 
not very good. 
Carapa molucmnsis Laniy “Nireh. " “Nireh Batu. ” 
A common tree in mangrove swamps with stiff ovate leaflets, 
small sweet scented white flowers and large brown fruits nearly a 
foot through, globose, with a rather thin rind and curious angled 
corky seeds. 
The bark is red and flakes off, falling in piles at the foot of the 
tree. It is very astringent and an extract of it is valuable in cases 
of dysentery. 
The tree is seldom tall or straight and old ones nearly always 
have a hollow up the middle, so that it is seldom used except as 
lirevvood or for small work. Fair sized beams can, however, be got. 
The wood is dark red or deep brown when old, very heavy and 
hard, the rays very close and fine, the pores few and not very large. 
Weight 63 lbs. 6 ozs. 
Were it possible to get good straight beams of this of sufficiently 
large size it would be a very valuable wood. It resists water and 
lasts a long time. 
As firewood it is especially used for splitting granite, two or 
three billets being placed on the rock, and allowed to smoulder for 
sometime after which water thrown on the heated rock causes it to 
split. 
The Crab-oil tree Carapa guyanensis, a South American tree of 
great repute as a timber, and producing an oil, seems to grow 
remarkably well here. The trees attaining a great height and 
growing fast and steadily, and quite straight. 
Cedrela Toona , Roxb. 
This Indian tree has been planted here in some quantity, and 
makes fairly fast growth in good soil. 
The wood is red soft and open grained, durable and not eaten 
by white ants and used for furniture door panels, carving, and tea 
boxes, in India (Gamble.) 
C.febrifuga. 
Occurs here and there in the Peninsula where it has been planted 
by Klings. 
Chickrassia tabularis, Juss. Chittagong wood. 
A large tree with a yellowish or reddish brown wood' with a 
satiny lustre used in India for furniture, is recorded in the mate- 
rials for a flora of the Malay Peninsula as collected in Malacca by 
Maingay, but doubtless planted. 
