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Flowers small violet. Drupes black. 
Wood yellowish white hard and heavy with distinct rings, rays 
line and close. 
It does not split in drying. Weight 5 I lbs. 4 ozs. to 54 lbs. 6 ozs. 
(Maingay), according to Gamble from 51 lbs. to 59 lbs., S. 45 lbs. 
1 1 ozs. to 49 lbs. 8 ozs. 
A good useful wood for buildings, boats, ploughs, wagon wheels 
and such work. 
V. vestita , Wall. “ Leban nasi. ” 
A medium or small tree with trifoliate leaves and small yellow 
flowers, common in woods, attains a height of 30 or more feet. 
Wood light whitish fawn with distinct rings, rays fine and 
numerous, small pores. Weight 32 lbs. 10 ozs. 
Used for building, for rafters and firewood, but very inferior to 
the preceding. 
CLERODENDRON. 
A small number of shrubs some hardly woody the only arbore- 
ous one is 
C. dispar (folium, Bl. 
About 15 to 20 feet tall rather slender, flowers yellow, fruit 
black surrounded by the red calyx lobes. Wood white rather 
light rays, variable reddish pores, scattered. Too small to be of 
much use. It is one of the woods used by natives for blackening 
their teeth. Weight 35 lbs. 12 ozs. 
Peronema canescens, Jack. 
A large shrub or fairly large tree about 40 feet tall, with pinnate 
leaves, large panicles of white flowers. Usually to be met with 
along river banks and damp spots. Wood white light but fairly 
hard, rings distinct, rays distant rather fine, rings distinct marked 
with a close continuous line of pores. Pores large often partition- 
ed few. Weight 30 lbs. 
Used for house posts in Java (Van Eeden.) This tree is one of 
the few here which regularly sheds its leaves, 
Gmelina villosa, Roxb. Bulangan. 
A shrub treelet. Flowers large yellow. Open places near the 
sea wood brown light and soft, with rather large rays, rings visible 
but not distinct, pores mediocre to small often partitioned, arranged 
in small groups, of no use. 
Avicennia officinalis , L. Api-Api. 
A medium sized tree common in mangrove swamps with small 
yellow flowers. 
The structure of the wood is very curious, it is of a fight brown 
or grey colour rather hard and heavy, of concentric layers often 
broken up and rather large t lie inner portion dark coloured with 
fairly large pores, outer portion softer and lighter with larger pores 
in rows, rays very fine and close. Weight (Gamble) 58 lbs., S. 51 
lbs. 3 ozs Only used here for firewood as its name implies, and 
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