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TIMBER TREES, 



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The yellow wood of the jack affords beautiful timber 

 for furniture, and in some parts of India it is high- 

 ly valued. The heart of old tamarind trees furnishes 

 a hard, dark-coloured wood, resembling ebony, Rox- 

 burgh says the wood is "durable and beautifully veined." 

 Cassia florida has wood "not inferior to ebony." Ponga- 

 mia glabra, and Wrightia coccinea have light fine wood. 

 The Ce^lonese iron wood tree, Adenanthera pavonina, 

 Vachellia Farnesiana, Acacia Catechu, and the jujube tree 

 furnish hard, tough wood. Cassia fistula, Cassia nodosa, 

 the chestnut tree, Sandoricum indicum, Navclca Ca~ 

 damba, and one or two species of eugenia afford good 

 timber. 



These are among more than a hundred trees in the 

 Provinces that furnish valuable woods, of which the follow- 

 ing selection of fifty or sixty embraces the most useful. 



TEAK. 



Teak is the staple timber of the Tenasserim Provin- 

 ces, and from its abundance in Province Amherst, and 

 its valuable property of being impervious to the white 

 ants, it is used in Maulmain almost exclusively both for 

 building purposes, and for furniture. In 1848 eighteen 

 thousand tons of this timber were exported, and Mr. 

 O'Riley estimated that more than three thousand tons 

 were used for home consumption ; the total value of the 

 whole falling little short of a million of rupees. 

 Tectona grandis. 

 cg$n oesij. oo&jJu 



HAMILTON TEAK- 



This is an inferior species of teak that grows on the 

 banks of the Irrawaddy ; and from native descriptions, I 

 imagine it is found in the province of Yay. 

 Tectona Hamiltonia. 



" ternifolia. 



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