PLANTS GATHERED IN AND ABOUT 3IUSS00RJE. 



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Aforvs alba. Cultivated, flowers and fruits during the Rummer 



months. Is planted in avenues along reads in the 

 Dun, the leaves furnish food for silk worms ; fruit 

 eaten. 



Aforjis serrata. Planted and wild at Mussoorie, very common, both 



species are commonly known in vernacular as " Tut " 

 or " Tunt," Flowers and fruits during summer. The 

 wood of both these trees is tough and elastic, cleans 

 well and takes a beautiful polish, is put to a variety 

 of uses but more especially for racket and tennis bats. 

 It is generally of a yellow-brown colour often mottled 

 with dark markings. 



Morus indir.a. Very common in Dehra iJun, Vernacular '' Sia 



tut " or " tutri," a quick growing tree and yields a 

 pretty mottled brown colour wood. Flowers and 

 fruits like the preceding. 



BroussoHetia 

 ri/era. 



pap'j' The paper-mulberry. Was introduced into Dehra 

 Dun but is now found as an escape and is fast self 

 sowing and spreading itself over the Dun. The 

 wood is Soft and useless but the bark forms a good 

 material for paper. 



Ficus gibboga (parasi- Is commonly met within the Dun growing as an 

 tiea). Epiphyte on other trees. Vernacular •' Chanchri " 



or " Kharsari." Fruits in cold season. 



Ficus bengalensif. 



Pious elagtica. 



Fieut religiosa, 

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Vernacular " Bar, " is met with in the Dun planted 

 near villages and on road sides as far up as Rajpur. 

 The wood of the tree ie moderately hard, stands well 

 under water and is on this account used for well 

 curbs " nim-chaks." The serial root drops are tough 

 and elastic, make good tent poles but unless well pre- 

 served are subject to be attacked by Boi-ers. The 

 branches are lopped for elephant fodder. The juicy 

 milk is made into bird-lime, the fruit is eaten by 

 natives and is greedily devoured by monkeys and all 

 fruit-eating birds. 



Is found under cultivation in gardens at Dehra. I 

 have not heard that any attempt has ever been made 

 to extract and prepare India-Kubber from it. 



The well known " pipal, " common in the Dun as- 

 cending to over 4,000 feet. Often found planted in 



