10 



ready market in Europe. No. 5 — okamu — comes next the banks has mostly been cleared for farming purposes, 



in order of merit; it has proved a useful timber for and now, where there are not gardens and crops, there 



boat planking. Xo. 36— okaka— is a general purpose are heavy stands of those weed trees that spring up 



wood that works easily. 



Table If. 

 Veimauri Forest — 108 acres of strips. 



Predominant Species, viz : 5% or over of total cubic contents 















Per- 









Xo. 



Cubic 

 Contents. 



Volume 



centages 



Xo. 



Local 



Scientific Name. 



of 



per 



of Total 





Name. 





Trees. 



Acre. 



Cubic 















Contents. 



1 



Damoni 



Dracontorm lum 



mangifertim 



42 



2,957 



27 



/o 



8^39 



2 



Kaeda 



Plane honia ti Di- 

 or ens is 



41 



4,545 



42 



12 91 



13 



Sihu . . 



Plerociimbium sp. 



29 



2,739 



25 



I'll 



20 



Hu ri . . 



Garuga sp. 



29 



2,611 



24 



7 41 



29 



Devoru 



Alstonia scholar is. . 



14 



2,297 



21 



6-51 



10 



Meiila 



Afzelia bijuga 



34 

 199 



1,829 



17 

 157 



5-81 





16,978 



45 • 00 



once such country is left fallow. A description of these 

 re-growth forests is given later, when dealing with the 

 Northern Division. On the Vanapa the areas are 

 small, owing, doubtless, to the sparseness of the popu- 

 lation. Between the patches of re-growth, there are 

 remnants of the rain forest and patches of ilinio; l>nt 

 it is not till Doura Village is passed that the areas of 

 forest become large, and the garden lands altogether 



The river is 



by launch for 

 6 miles above the village, and here was situated the 



insignificant. 



navigable 



uppe 

 mill. 



camp of the hands employed 



felling 



for the 



Above this camp the river becomes too shallow 

 for a launch, but it is still floatable for logs in the 

 north-west season. The forest on the left bank was 



first examined. A 



the 

 far 



timber in rain 

 from the 



preliminary inspection showed that 

 forest formation did not extend 



At 



mile 



river. At a 

 a nine the trees become stunted, 

 gradually -into light 

 savannah forest 



depth of three-quarters of 



and 



pole 

 appeared, 



degenerated 

 woods; at 1J miles the 

 and this stretched across 



Table TIL 



Valuable species not included above. 



with islands of swamp land to within H miles of the 

 Brown River, where timber was again met with, gradu- 

 ally improving to the bank of the river, where there 

 are some good stands of ilimo. The left bank of the 

 Vanapa at this point is only clothed with a narrow 



strip of timber, 

 the field books 



The summary of data computed from 



Tables IV., V. and VI. 



is given m 



No. 



Local 



-Name, 



3 

 9 



4 

 5 



30 



Scientific Name 



Medobi 

 Epi . . 



Nara . , 

 Okamu 

 Okaka 



No. 



of 



Trees. 



Indt. 



Cedrela toona var. 



australia 

 Pterocarpus indices 



Po met ia p i n nata . . 

 TerminaUa catap- 



poides 



13 



1 



3 



14 



4 



Cubic 

 Contents 



1,704 

 99 



136 



1,168 



484 



Volume 

 per 

 Acre. 



160 

 0-9 



12 



10-8 

 4-3 



Per- 

 centages 



of Total 



Cubic 

 Content- 



/o 



4-83 

 0-27 



0-38 

 3-31 

 1-37 



It is interesting to note that in these Veimauri strips 

 only two ilinios were met with. In surveys of other 

 rain forests this tree is generally better represented. 



Forest between Veimauri and Veiya Rivers. 



A small patch of timber remains between these two 

 rivers. It is a tract of level alluvial country, which, 

 at the lower end is swampy, but at the upper it is 

 well enough drained to carry big timber. Four 

 hundred acres of it are under coco-nuts; the remainder 

 is forest. No. 1 — damoni — is the most common tree — 

 no less than 36 per cent, of the stocking belonging to The coll fi gurat -i on f the country on the right bank 



this species. In other respects it is very similar forest is more YdOj 9 and a camp was selected 5 miles higher 

 to that found on the Veimauri, wherever flat country up to ena bl e a strip survey to be made of this type, 

 is met with. I found five fresh timber trees % of which A preliminary inspection showed this country to con- 

 No. 84 — otuni S loaned paradisian 

 tree with a wide range. 



1 estimate the area of forest that is of this type, and 

 therefore represented by the strips measured, at 2,500 

 acres, and the area of the strips was 67 acres, or 2.6 

 per cent. It will be seen that out of a total stand of 

 308 mill logs, cubing 35,873 feet on the 67 acres, 59 

 per cent, of the trees and 64 per cent, of the volume 

 are represented by and contained in seven species; and 

 each of them contains more than 5 per cent, of the 



total cubic contents. Of the more valuable species 

 below the 5 per cent, line nara is most numerous, but 



the cubic contents per tree is low. It will be seen 

 that two cedars were met with, and two silky teaks. 



Twelve new species were found here, but a number of 

 the Veimauri trees were missing ; the distribution of 



ilimo was in patches. In one strip of 3 acres, I found 

 fourteen ilimo and four other species. In another of 

 S acres I found eleven ilimo and fourteen other species. 

 These two patches of ilimo represent over 4,000 cubic 

 feet of timber, and therefore had a very marked effect 

 on the total figures. By taking a strip along the river 

 within 5 chains of the bank, a stand of 950 cubic feet 

 can be measured. With a strip parallel to the first, 



and 25 chains deep, the stand falls to about one half, 

 while, 45 chains back from the bank, the stand is 

 barely 100 cubic feet to the acre. 



i 



in — 



Forests of the Vanapa. 



Taking the track from Veiya Village to Doura, one 

 passes alongside the Vanapa River, but the timber on 



sist of a narrow strip of alluvial ground made by the 

 river, and behind this, exceedingly rocky hills, rising 

 to 400 and 500 feet at first, and then, as one ascended 

 the river, to 1,000 and 1,500 feet. The alluvial strip, 

 at every convex bend, was cut in two by a spur oi a 

 hill. 



