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is impossible to get a straight beam, and it is consequently little used 
except as firewood, or for short posts. It was formerly at least, used 
for splitting granite at Pulau Ubin, by burning it on the. rock and 
throwing cold water on the heated stone. The trees along the tidal 
river at Setul, however, were of great size, tall and straight, and 
some, the Malay informed me, were over six feet in diameter and it 
was the best timber for beams that they had. 
There is no doubt that a tree may vary in value as a timber tree 
very greatly in different locality, or, perhaps it should be said different 
climates, although it may be, as far as its species is concerned, 
identical in flower, fruit and leaf, and a tree that is a valuable timber 
in one country may be of little or no use in others. 
Carallia integerrima, Mr. R. S. Troup, in pamphlet II of the 
Forest Economy Series of India, gives an account of the timber of 
Carallia integerrima., called “ Merpoin” and “ Kusinga” here, a not very 
uncommon tree in the Malay Peninsula. He gives the dimensions as 
follows : “ The tree ordinarily grows to a height of 50 or 80 feet with a 
girth of 6 or 7 feet and a clear bole of 40 to 50 feet. Logs of 50 to 
60 cubic feet in Burmah. In Bombay and Madras it reaches a height 
of only about 40 feet with a girth of 4 or exceptionally 6 feet and 
a clear bole of 20 feet.’’ Now this tree never seems rarely to attain 
anything like this size in our forests. It is usually about 30 feet tall 
and has a comparatively short clear bolel A note on a specimen 
collected by Mr. Cantley’s ' plantcollector, however, in Malacca, gives 
a height of 80 feet and says it will produce beams. Carallia integerrima 
is however a very variable tree in foliage and perhaps some forms 
are bigger than others. 
Sindora Wallichi var Siamensis. Saputi. 
A fine tree of this species long a conspicuous object on the lawn of 
the Botanic Gardens was found last year to have somewhat suddenly 
died, it is supposed, from lightning. The tree was about 90 feet tail 
and branched very low, the butt was four feet through. When cleared 
away it was found that the wood was extremely hard, difficult to cut 
and split, the bark corky brown an inch thick. The sap wood is at 
first cutting white but soon darkens in colour, and a black resin 
exudes in rings. The heart wood at first is dark red reminding with 
its black resin of Rengas, ( Melannorhoea ) but eventually is dark and 
light brown. The rings are well marked but very irregular in width ; 
in one part of the trunk I counted ten to the inch. The rays are very 
fine and dose, the pores not very abundant, but moderately large like 
those of Merabau ( Afzelia ) ) to which this tree is closely allied. The 
wood indeed much resembles Merabau except in colour being brown 
instead of red. It has a good figure, and is harder than Merabau. 
The Saputi, though seldom* as thick as Merabau and not so 
heavily buttressed, attains a height of about a hundred feet or more, 
with a straight cylindric stem when grown in high forest and a large 
round crown. The flowers are produced in great abundance and 
