~ 602 PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA,  § Sideroxylon. 
Jotig experience been found to be by far the most useful 
timber in Asia; it is light, easily worked, and at the same 
time both strong and durable. That which grows. on the 
mountains on the banks of the Goduvuree, is beautifully vein- 
ed, and considerably closer in the grain, and heavier than 
any other I have seen. It is therefore particularly fit for 
furniture, gun-carriages, &c. For ship-building it is reckon- 
ed superior to every other sort of Wood ; being light, strong, 
and very durable, either in or out of the water. 
- Pegu produces the largest quantity, and their large rivers 
eanble the natives to bring it down to the sea-ports froin the 
interior mountainous parts of the country, where it grows, at 
a cheap rate ; which enables them to sell it lower than in any 
other part of India, 
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STDEROXYLON. Schreb. gen. N. 357... 
Calya five-cleft, Corol rotate, five-cleft, Nectary five- 
leaved, inserted on the fissures of the corol, alternate with 
the stamina. Stigma simple. Berry superior, five-seeded. 
Embryo erect. — coy 
1.8. tomentosum. Willd. i. p. 1090. R. Corom. pl. 1. N. 23. 
_ Unarmed. Leaves alternate, oblong;waved,downy. Flow- 
ers axillary, fascicled. _ Berry with from one to five seeds. - 
. A-small tree, a native of the tops of mountains phielie 
| Flowering during the hot season, 
. Trunk erect. Bark ash-coloured. asian naa ink 
numerous, Leaves alternate, short-petioled, oval, a little 
scolloped, when full grown smooth ; when’ young covered 
with much rust-coloured down ; re three to five inches 
long, and one and a half broad. Peduneles axillary, numer- 
ous, short, downy, bowing, undivided, one-flowered. Flowers . 
small, dull white. Calyx below, five-leaved ; leaflets imbri-_ 
cated, downy, permanent, Coro/l one-petalled, Tube short, 
inside. 
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