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used for beams, which can be had 5 or 6 inches square, used in 
house building. 
Tamarindus indicus , L. Tamarind, Poko Assam. 
Often cultivated for its fruit, but seems here to thrive only near 
the sea. It attains a large size. Wood yellowish white sometimes 
with red streaks, heart wood darker brown, highly prized in India, 
but difficult to work. Used for wheels, furniture, oil mills, sugar 
mills, turning, etc. 
Weight, sapwood 61 to 63 lbs., heart-wood 80-83 lbs. (Gamble). 
Sindora Wallichiana. Be nth, Saputi. 
A vast tree with flat spiny one or two seeded pods. Wood 
light coloured yellowish, with rather small pores and fine rays. A 
fairly good timber. Weight 42 lbs. 3 ozs. 
S. velutina r Baker. Saputi Jantan. 
A big tree, with pale lemon wood, coarse grained, hard, splits 
deeply in drying, used for beams in houses. Weight 50 lbs. 8| ozs, 
(Maingay.) 
S. coriacea, Prain. Saputi Minyak. 
This differs from the other species of the genus in having smooth 
spineless pods. It is not very common but occurs in Penang and 
Malacca. 
Wood hard and heavy light brown shining, pores rather large 
scattered not very numerous, rays fine and close reddish coloured 
showing on a longitudinal section as spots and bars. 
Weight 40 lbs. 12 ozs. (Maingay) S. 49 lbs. 6 ozs. A pretty 
wood suited for building, furniture etc. 
The tree is said to produce an oil, which is used to mix with 
minyak keruing. 
A fzelia . 
There are two species of this genus here, viz : A. palembanica, 
Merabau and A. retusa . Kurz, Merabau, Bakau. 
The latter is a small tree often only a shrub which grows com- 
monly along the sea-shore. It is too small to be of much use, the 
wood, however, resembles that of A. palembanica, but is more 
regular in grain and has much smaller pores. The tree is easily 
recoginsed by there being never more than four leaftets on the leaf, 
whereas the true Merabau has from 8 to 12. Weight 22 lbs. 8 ozs. 
A palembanica , Gray. Merabau. 
(The native name is often spelt in every conceivable way such 
as Mirbow, Merbau, etc. and the Chinese sawyers have converted 
it into K'labu). 
The tree attains a height of 100 to 150 feet or even more with 
a diameter of 3 to 4 feet. Strong buttresses are produced at the 
base in large trees. The hark is brown shedding in round flakes 
in an irregular manner, often looking as if some one had been 
bruising it with a round ended hammer. 
When felled it shoots up again from the base, even if the tree 
