Pyimma.—Posts, joists, common rafters, purlins, frames, floor and wall planking, shingles.
Lakuch and Mowha.—Posts, girders, beams, and purlins.
Gangaw.—Posts, girders of bridges, 3-inch planking over sluices, and sluice-gates.
Thitmin.—Inside walling and jambs, shelves, and any light work.
In boat-building the following species are used by the Marine Department:—
Padouk.—Hull planks, keel, stem and stern posts, ribs of large boats, and thwarts.
White Chuglam.—Oars. Pyimma.—Thwarts. Thitmin.—Masts and spars. Chooi.—Ribs of small boats.
For furniture, Padouk and Koko are chiefly used. Didu is the only species utilised for the manufacture of tea-boxes at Port Blair. Bark for tanning purposes is obtained from various species of Mangrove and from Terminalia procera. Mangrove also gives the most suitable wood for use in the furnaces of the Settlement steam-launches.
Firewood for ordinary purposes is obtained from all hard-wood species other than those in demand for timber.