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by Sally K. Church
In Malay it is called the ‘aromatic which brings down the True-Ones’ (Malay kayu laka), thus also referred to as ‘cayolaque’, it is a rosewood liana. Lakawood is the Dalbergia parviflora of the East Indies, whose scented heartwood was imported into China for ‘joss-sticks’.
- adapted from J. V. G. Mills, Champa, n. 28
