H. macvopliylla is a rather large evergreen tree, a native 

 of the forests of Eastern Bengal, Silhet, Munnepore, 

 Chittagong, and Tenasserim. In India, unlike H. littoralls, 

 it does not affect the sea coast or tidal swamps, but in 

 Cambodia, according to Pierre, it is a coast plant and 

 inhabits the delta of the Mekong river. It differs from the 

 last named species in the much larger size of the longer 

 petioled, more acuminate leaves, and especially in the fruit, 

 which instead of being oblong, polished, and winged with 

 a compressed rounded apex, is nearly globose, rough, and 

 furnished with an abrupt flattened beak. The fruit, 

 indeed, is the main character, for the leaves of both species 

 vary extremely in size, form, and length of petiole. 



II. littoralis, which forms a small tree in the tidal 

 estuaries of India, Eastern Africa, the Malayan, Australian 

 and Pacific Islands, was long in cultivation at Kew, having 

 been introduced by Sir Joseph Banks in 1780. I remem- 

 ber it there as a stunted pot-plant, and its being discarded 

 in favour of II. macrophylla, which, as mentioned above, 

 was supposed to be a more vigorous form of the same 

 species. In the Sunderbunds H. littoralis, called Sundri by 

 tne Bengalis, forms the chief arboreous vegetation, and 

 affords a hard tough, durable wood that sinks in water, 

 much used for firewood, furniture, and boat-building. It 

 &as the peculiarity of sending up tough shoots like tent- 

 pegs trom the roots all round the parent plant, that render 

 * a king through a Sundri forest very trying. 



J niid no allusion to H. macrophylla in any of the Indian 

 J orest works or reports to which I have access, though if 

 its timber has properties approaching those of the Sundri it 

 I' i ?; 0n 5 c . counfc of th ° greater size of the tree, prove 

 valuable, and its cultivation be attempted.—/. D. H. 



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