Note 38 — Part II

For identifications of these various woods, see VOLS. XII, p. 245 (molave), and XVIII, pp. 169–173. Tangili is the Tagálog name for various trees of the genera Dipterocarpus and Shorea, (of the same natural order). “Teak” is a corruption of the Malabar name for the tree known to botanists as Tectona grandis. According to Official Handbook (p. 356), it “exists in Mindanao, and said to exist in Negros.” Blanco gives (Flora, p. 93), the following interesting account of its habitat: “The only teak tree of which I have first-hand knowledge is the one which exists in the village of Tanay, in Laguna de Bahi [i.e., Bay]. Formerly there were two, and they were planted by a Franciscan priest; it is not known whence the seed came. The Tanay people call it ticla…. It is common in some provinces of Visayas, in Negros Island, Zambales, Mindanao, and Butuan, as has recently been ascertained. The tree whose flowers I have seen is in Tanay, and has waited twenty-three years to bloom.” ↑