some larger ones, and 
rows, the rays are very tine mixed with 
there are numerous small transverse bars. 
It is used in India for carts, cabinet work and house building 
lbs Tj'lzs aVerageS fr0n ’ 4 ‘ lbs - ( Mail 'b'ay) to 60 (Gamble) S. 53 
M. Kaukf, L. San. 
A medium sized tree cultivated at Malacca chiefly for its fruit 
ihe wood is valued for Chinese coffins, but it is difficult to set 
large trees and it is not common. 
Unidentified Sapotaceous timber are S'marum a wood much 
resembling Johore Niato but darker. It is used for planking 
weight 3 1 lbs. 3 ozs. & 
Daru. 
A fairly large tree producing a hard and heavy wood somewhat 
resembling Balau. It is yellow in colour with numerous fine dis- 
tant rays paler than the darker ground with large scattered pores 
It has an aromatic odour when cut due to a resin. Weight {7 lbs 
4 ozs ; a specimen from Lingga, 65 lbs. 14 ozs. Howard Newton’ 
says that it could be got from 6 to 12 inches square and from 2J 
to 30 feet long However the demand for it has been so great 
that it is with difficulty procurable now at anything like that size 
although the tree has no sapwood, and is good all through. It 
seems to be a native of Sumatra chiefly, I have never seen it in the 
Peninsula, Newton gives it as of the genus apodytes, (Olacinex) 
but this is an error it is certainly Sapotaceous. 
Ebenace^e. 
More than one tree here produces ebony. (Kayu Arang) amone 
which are Diosfiyrus nucrophyl/a , a big tree with small leaves, and 
V. clavigera, Clarke, a plant allied to the true Ebony of India I), 
ebenum. The ebony is only the heartwood of the tree, which con- 
tains a large amount of white or brown sapwood, so that a tree 
must be full grown before much ebony is to be obtained from it 
In D. clavigera, the sapwood is brown, the heartwood black and 
very hard and heavy, a cubic foot weighting 80 lbs. 15 ozs. 
The pores are few small and scatteied, \somelimes divided the 
rays are fine and numerous, and there are very many short trans- 
verse bars giving the wood a very distinct appearance. Apart 
from the ebony heartwood this is a good and strong wood. Weight 
51 lbs, s 
D. lucida , Wall and D. microphylla , have very similar wood 
rather darker coloured. 
Th e ebony produced by 11, cse trees is very hard, though rather 
brittle, deep black and heavy, very compact so that the rays and 
pores are almost invisible. A sample from Malacca weighed '56 lb* 
4 ozs. and one from the sawmills of Johor 69 lbs. 12 ozs Ebony is 
obtained in the Dmdings, Johor, and Malacca. 
Styraceec. 
A small order of trees and shrubs. 
