(502 FENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. SideVOXyfoM. 



long 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 theGoduvwree, 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 

 enable the natives to bring it down to the sea-ports from 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. 



SJDEROXYLON. Schreb. gen. N. 357- 



Calyx 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. 



1. S. tomentosum. Willd. i. p. 1090. R. Corom. pi. A.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 chiefly. 

 Flowering during the hot season. 



Trunk erect. Bark ash-coloured. Branches erect, very 

 numerous. Leaves alternate, short-petioled, oval, a little 

 scolloped, when full grown smooth ; when young covered 

 with much rust-coloured down ; from three to five inches 

 lono-, and one and a half broad. Peduncles axillary, numer- 

 ous, short, downy, bowing, undivided, one-flowered. Flowers 

 small, dull white. Calyx below, five-leaved ; leaflets imbri- 

 cated, downy, permanent. Corol, one-petalled. Tube short, 

 inside downy, margin simple, five-parted ; segments spread- 



