with rather strong ribs, and about 4 inches long, the flowers dirty 
pale yellow with a silvery calyx. 
The timber is fairly good of the £erayah class of timber light 
brown and rather light in weight, and by no means hard, pores 
extremely numerous and dose medullary rays very numerous, close 
and fine annual rings very conspicuous and regular, pores very much 
more numerous in the period of rapid growth. Weight 50 lbs, per 
cubic foot. 
Shorea glauca, “Balau.” — This timber now called Balau is not 
the original timber of that name which is Parinarium oblongifolium 
though it is constantly sent under this name from the Rumpin River 
in Pahang whence the original Balau was derived. The genuine 
Balau is now, it seems, quite a rare tree. I have occasionally come 
across it in Singapore, Johor and elsewhere, it is easily recognized 
by its large leaves white beneath. 
The tree having been almost exterminated, this timber ( Shorea 
glauca ) very inferior has been substituted. It is dark brown in colour 
and heavy with numerous crowded small pores, and close fine rays. 
In fact it much resembles the genuine Damar Laut ( Shorea util is). 
It is a good timber but for durability cannot be compared with the 
original timber known as Balau. Weight 69 lbs. per cubic foot. 
Lumnitzera coccinea the Teruntum, ( Combretaceae ). Mr. BuRN- 
MurdOCH sends a good sample of this closegrained pale fawn 
coloured wood. The tree is conspicuous in the mangrove swamps 
from its tufts of brilliant red flowers. 
Teruntum is a good useful wpod being fairly strong and heavy, 
it is, however, rather liable to split. Weight 58 lbs. per cubic foot. 
Beliau or Beds, Dichopsis sp. — This has already been described in 
the Bulletin. Mr. BURN-MURDOCH sends another specimen of the 
timber of really first class quality, a fine dark brown red heavy wood 
very compact, the pores very small in short rows, the transverse rings 
very fine and close and wavy. Weight 72 lbs. per cubic foot. 
H. N. RIDLEY. 
RUBBER INDUSTRY. 
THE F. M. S. vs. CEYLON. 
Mr. H. K. Rutherford’s Opinion. 
Mr. H. K. Rutherford returned to Ceylon from the Federated 
btates a few days ago, and will stay in the Isle of Spices about a 
month. Before going to the F. M. S. he visited the low- country 
properties of the C. T. P. Co. and other companies in which he is 
interested; and on the present occasion will inspect the upcountry 
ones. We have previously described the prominence of Mr. 
RUTHERFORD in Ceylon’s and F. M. S. planting annals and his 
