AG R I CULTU HAL BU LLET 1 N 
OF THE 
STRAITS 
AND 
FEDERATED MALAY STATES. 
No. 6.] MARCH, 1902. [VOL. 1. 
THE TIMBERS OF THE MALAY PENINSULA. 
Continued . 
Rubiace^e. 
A large order containing but few large trees and none of any 
vast size, and of these few are large enough to give timber big 
enough for beams. The wood is usually yellow or white seldom 
red or dark brown. 
Sarcocephalus JungJiuhnii, Miq. Mangel, Chermin Ayer. 
A fairly large tree with rounded opposite leaves and flowers in 
balN, yellow sweet-scented, about 30 or 40 feet tall and about a foot 
through, with rather thick bark. The wood is fairly heavy bright 
yellow when fresh turning brown, not very hard. The sapwood 
not very distinct. Pures large and small mixed, rays very close 
and fine, rings fairly distinct and regular narrow and almost pore- 
less. Weight 40 lbs. 8 ozs. 
A good ordinary building wood, durable. 
Adina rubescens , Hemsley, Berombong. 
A fairly large tree about 60 feet tall and 1^ to 2 feet through 
remarkable for the stem being irregularly perforated for some depth. 
Leaves small, flowers in small heads, bark £ inch thick grey, sap- 
wood at first pink fairly hard. Heartwood yellow, with distinct 
ri tiers, rays very fine and close, pores mediocre scattered irregularly. 
A hard and heavy wood excellent for building but the irregular 
depressions in the trunk make it difficult to get good beams. If 
good it is said to last 20 or 30 years in the ground. Weight 46 lbs. 
5 ozs. to 49 lbs. 8 ozs. 
Uncarta. 
This genus of climbers is very well represented here, the best 
known being the Gambir, Uncaria gambir , Some of the other 
species are Hanes of great size with very hard wood for banes of a 
very curious structure dark brown in colour with very large pores 
partly full of some white substance. 
