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Year. Viss. | Value, Rate per viss. 
rupees, annas. pies. 
1887-88  ...... 3,800 290 1 3 | 
1888-89 ...... 14,415 2733 3 0 | 
1889-90 ...... 13,550 4552 5 5 
1890-91 ...... 9,480 3775 6 2 
1891-92 ...... 9,562 2104 3 7 
1892-93  ...... 5,850 933 2 7 
1893-94  ...... 12,501 3979 5 1 
1894-95 ..... 7,251 1670 3 8 
1895-96  ...... 15,505 5838 6 0 
1896-97 ...... 16,844 7130 6 9 
1897-98 ...... 8,728 4225 7 9 
1898-99 ..... 9,794 3161 5 2 
1899-1900 ... 9,105 2152 à 9 
1900-01 ...... 1,697 1137 10 9 
1901-02  ...... 3,625 1470 6 6 
1902-03 ...... 5,212 1695 5 2 
Average ... } 9.170 | 2998 5 9 
1887-1903... , | n ^ 
Taking the viss at 90857 lbs. we have: 
| lbs. | Value. Rate per lb. 
Sri] 28,296 | £195 2s. 1 pence. 
At one time it was supposed that the source of Kalamet 
might prove to be an undescribed species of Santalum. Iu 1873, 
when the first edition of the * Manual of Indian Timbers’ was 
prepared, a specimen was received from Tavoy and the wood was 
examined by Sir D. Brandis, Mr. J. S. Gamble, and Mr. A. 
Smythies, who considered that it resembled Sandalwood, but that 
it differed from ordinary Indian Sandal (Santalum album, Linn.) 
in having more prominent medullary rays. When a second 
edition of the * Manual' was being prepared, Mr. Gamble wrote 
to Mr. Manson, Conservator of Forests in Tenasserim, for better 
specimens. In response to this request Mr. Manson, in 1900, 
forwarded a piece of Kalamet wood, procured from the head- 
waters of the Theingón Choung, near the Siamese frontier of 
the Mergui district. Mr. Gamble has noted that, as compared 
with true Sandal, this Kalamet wood is darker in colour; has 
larger pores somewhat concentrieally arranged ; broader, more 
prominent and fewer medullary rays; more marked annual 
