586 BURMA, ITS r EOF IE AXD PRODUCTIOSS. 



Tar. a genuina. Leaves and panicles glabrous. Capsules greyish, wrinliled. 



var. /3 vehitlna, Eocra. All softer parts, as well as the panicle, softly pubescent. 

 Capsules black, almost smooth. 



Kurz describes the wood as light-coloured, and weighing 24 lbs. only ! It would 

 seem in this and other cases he only follows Brandis, who is certainly wrong as to 

 weight. Yimmah is a somewhat coarse brown wood weighing 5 3 lbs., and is an excel- 

 lent wood for common pm-poses. 



CEDRELIE^E. 



Filaments free, hiKertcd outside of the disk. Values of capsule separating from the 

 axis. Seeds mant/. Leaces pinnate. 



Cedeela, Linnmis. 

 Petals erect. Stamens 4-6. Bisk raised or thin. Ocarij 5-celled. Capsule 

 opening septicidally. Seeds winged. 



* Seeds winged at both ends. Leaflets entire. 



C. TOONA, Roxb. T. Chittagong, Arukan, and rare in Pegu Range. 



C. felirifuga, Bl. 

 C. Teysmanni, Miq. 



Calyx minute, the sepals rounded, hardly 1 line long. Leaflets usually on long 

 slender petioles. 



Thyt-kado (scented wood). The ' Toon ' of India. 



Wood reddish, weight 34 lbs., Kurz gives 28, but this is too low. It is an 

 excellent wood for furniture, but given to creaking during changes in the weather 

 and at night. 



C. MULTuroA, Kz. E.T. Rare in Pegu Range West of Toung-ugoo. 



Toung-ta-ma. 



Calyx large, the sepals 1 h line long, acute. Leaflets usually shortly pctioled. 



** Seeds winged onhj leJow. 



C. .SEEHATA, Roylc. T. Ava. 



C. longifolia, Wall. 

 Leaflets serrate or serrulate. Calyx minute. 



Many species of this Order yield bitter and tonic principles which are useful as 

 febrifuges, and some are emetic, purgative, or anthelmintic. The main value however 

 of trees of this Order lies in the excellent timber they supply. Foremost among these 

 stands Mahogany, Swietniia Mahogoni, which may be regarded as displaying the type 

 of excellence for a furniture wood, but which some Burmese woods but little kno'mi 

 or regarded closely approach. Another famous tree held in high esteem for the 

 sanative properties of its oil and leaves is the Nim (of India), Melia azadirachta, which. 

 also yields a fine wood. Other excellent timbers are yielded in Bumia by various 

 species of Carapa, Amoora, TTalsiira and Cedrela, not to mention others of less value. 



Order BURSERACE^. 

 Flowers hermaphrodite, or polygamous, regular. Calyx gamosepalous, or the 

 sepals distinct, imbricate or valvate. Petals 3-5, usually free, deciduous, valvate, or 

 imbricate. Stamens twice as numerous as petals, or more (rarely 3-5), equal or 

 unequal, free. Anthers usually versatile. Bisk usually conspicuous, annular or 

 cup-shaped. Orary free, 2-5 celled, with 2 (rarely a solitary) usually pendulous 

 ovules in each cell. Style usually short, with an entire or 2-5-lobed stigma. Brupe 

 indeliiscent, containing 2-5 nuts, or a longer chartaceous stone, the fruit rarely 

 capsular, inclosing 2-5 bony nuts. Seeds pendulous. Albumen none. Trees or 

 shrulis, with pinnate, or rarely 3-1-foliolate leaves, the lower pair of leaflets usually 

 stipule-Uke. Flowers small in racemes or panicles. 



