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hard close and even grained, anneal rings indistinctly marked by 
concentric lines, pores small and moderate sized uniformly des- 
tributed. Rays of two sizes, few moderately broad rays with 
numerous fine rays between them, 49 lbs per cubic foot. 
Baccaurea. 
A large genus of trees of no very great size with fruits either m 
the form of a berry or a capsule, the seeds enclosed in an eatable 
aril. The timber, as a rule, is hard and good, in some light yellow- 
ish white, in others dark brown. 
B. Motley ana, Hook, fil. Rambai. 
A well known fruit tree. It seems never to attain any large size 
and usually branches much low down. The bark is thin and flaky, 
light coloured, and the wood rather soft and light coloured similar 
to ash wood in colour, the rays are rather thick and the pores large. 
Weight 33 lbs. 12 ozs. to 87 lbs. 2 ozs. 
A good fire wood. 
B, parvi flora, Muell. Setambun. 
This is quite a small tree about 20 feet tall and usually much 
less, and about three inches through. The flowers are borne on 
the old wood in great masses, the females at the foot of the tree, 
the males higher up. The stem is usually knotty and the '^00 l 
very compact and hard, wherefore it is often used as a club by 
Malays. It is light fawn colour, or yellow with large and fine rays 
mixed and connected with very small transverse bars, pores few 
and small. Weight 23 lbs. to 51 lbs. 
Though the tree is small from the peculiarly hard close gram or 
the wood it might perhaps be of use for work in which box-wood is 
commonly used. 
B. symplocoides , Hook fil. 
A small tree common. Wood close grained light fawn colour 
with distinct rings, rays rather distant, and broad, pores many 
small and few. A bard compacHwood something like the previous 
one. 
B. Wallichii , Hook fil. Gintek Merah. 
A tree 40 to 60 feet tall has red wood suitable for beams, being 
durable. 
B, Malay ana, King. Tampoi. 
A well known fruit tree 5 ° do feet tall, has rather light 
coloured brown wood with tolerably distinct rings and numerous 
moderate sized pores, the rays are mixed fine and broad ones and 
there are fine transverse bars running across as in the other 
species. Weight 54 lb® - A durable wood but rather liable to split , 
useful for beams, posts etc. 
B. bracteata Muell. 
A common medium sized tree, has wood very similar to that of 
Tampoi, but the transverse bars are finer and the colour is darker. 
Weight 78 lbs. 12 ozs. 
