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hosa, E. aguea, are cultivated and commonly known as Rose-apples 
(Jambu). 
The timbers are usually good, and some are exceptionally so, 
and can be used for house or ship building. As a rule the species 
with small leaves and flowers (the section syzigium , the Kayu Kelat 
of the Malays) have harder and better wood than the large flowered 
Jambosas (Jambu). 
E. grandis, Wight. Jambu Ayer Laut, Krian. 
A very fine large tree attaining a height of 60 feet and a diame- 
ter of 2 feet, with light coloured whitish bark hard ovate dark green 
leaves polished in the upper surface, large white flowers in big 
corymbs and single seeded green fruit about an inch long. This 
tree is usually to be met with near the sea in a wild state but it has 
been much used as a road side tree in Singapore and is now widely 
scattered over the island. It is to be met with all over the Penin- 
sula as far north as Lankavvi. It will grow in very poor soil, but 
very damp spots do not suit it, as it is very liable to the attacks of 
a fungus which causes the bark to crack and split off and beginning 
usually at the foot of the tree gradually creeps up, till the tree is 
destroyed. The tree grows fast from seed and will resist fire very 
well. It is well suited for making fire guards in country liable to 
grass fires, as it will not burn, and soon recovers any damage from 
fire. A belt of about twenty feet closely planted will stop almost 
any grass and scrub fire. 
The wood is light brown in colour fairly heavy and not very 
hard, with moderate sized pores in short concentric light coloured 
bands and distinct rings marked by dark hard wood with few or 
no pores. 
It is used in boat building, and for house beams etc. and is very 
fairly durable. Weight 51-52 lbs. (Gamble), 35 lbs. 2 ozs. to 53 lbs. 
10 ozs. Average 42 lbs. 
E. lepidocarpa , Wall. Samak, 
Is a rather smaller tree with thicker, shorter and broader very 
dark green polished leaves, smaller white flowers, with the ovary 
ribbed. It is also a sea shore tree, and is very common in the 
South of the Peninsula at least. 
The bark is used for tanning, The wood is fairly heavy and 
hard, close grained and deep brown, with numerous fairly small 
pores, very fine rays, and obscure rings. A good useful wood but 
not as a rule very large. Weight 48 lbs. 
E. inop hy l la , Roxb. 
A closely allied plant, much less common, has very similar wood 
but less coarse in texture. Weight 56 lbs. 7 ozs. 
E. hialaccensis, L. Jambu Bol. 
A very handsome tree with large crimson flowers borne on the 
branches in tufts, and large white or pink fruit commonly cultivat- 
ed for eating, has brown wood with moderately large pores. 
It is harder than that of the Krian ( E . grand Is) but the tree 
is shorter and does not supply large enough beams to be of much 
