BOTANY. 209 



CAREYA. 



An arboreous species of careya, a genus named after 

 Dr. Carey, furnishes a useful timber for house building. 

 In some parts of India matchlocks are made from a spe- 

 cies of careya- 



Careya arborea. 



oajjccgsa coggn (Tavoy.) ugi. 



MOUNTAIN JACK. 



The mountain jack is deemed* a valuable timber by the 

 natives, especially for canoes. Wallich says: "It pro- 

 duces a sort of caoutchouc, with which the Burmese pay 

 their boats." I imagine this is a mistake. The Bur- 

 mese almost universally pay their boats with a substance 

 that is produced by a bee, mixed sometimes with dammer. 

 Artocarpus echinatus. 



<sa3o£S<S» coooSS^n (Tavoy.) C3l. ol« 



WILD NUTMEG TREE. 



There are one or two trees, which I have noticed in 

 the southern provinces, belonging to the genus which 

 contains the nutmeg. The fruit has none of the aroma 

 of the nutmeg, but the timber which is large, is used by 

 the natives in house carpentry. Griffith found only one 

 species, "apparently," he says, "referable to Lourier's ge- 

 nus knerna." Wallich, however, met with two, and refer- 

 red both to myristica. 



Myristica amygdai'na 1 

 " spcerocarpa 1 



c?cx>56noD?a oDjhOJ. aj*8cln 9 



BIGNONIA. 



The Karens often build their boats rvith the wood of a 

 species of bignonia, as the genus is defined by Roxburgn. ; 



