Crossword-Solution: PADOUK 6 letters, 6 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 13

The floor of the church is of mosaic, and stalls, screens, and nave seats are of Burmese wood, called padouk.

The materials for construction are close to hand, since the woods used (_padouk_ for the planking and _pyimma_ for frames) are obtained from the neighbouring forests.

Palms abound; the banian and padouk, that resembles mahogany; marble-wood, of a black, mottled appearance; satin-wood; and the iron tree, which turns the edge of an axe, are all found in the forests, in beautiful confusion with cotton-trees, screw-pines, and arborescent euphorbias, and with large clumps of bamboos, 30 and 40 feet high; while all round the coasts, mangroves, the most satisfactory of firewoods, give shelter to lovely orchids.

APPENDIX C NOTES ON THE PRODUCE OF THE ANDAMANESE FORESTS The following is a list of some of the more useful and valuable woods:-- Padouk } Pterocarpus Indicus } Koko } Albizzia Lebbek } For furniture.

Chuglam, Black } Myristica Irya } Marble wood } Diospyros Kurzii } Padouk } Pterocarpus Indicus } Gangaw } Mesua ferrea } Toung-peingne } Artocarpus Chaplasha } Pyimma } Lagerstroemia hypoleuca } Thingan } Hopea odorata } For building.