ROYAL BOTANIC GARDENS, KEW. 
BULLETIN 
MISCELLANEOUS INFORMATION. 
XXIV -BURMESE LACQUER WARE AND BURMESE 
VARNISH. 
(Melanorrhoea usitata, Wall.)* 
(With Plates.) 
Siam, often abundant in the forests of which the In (En-) tree 
(Di]>h-for,(rj>><* tuhrrnilahis) is the most characteristic species, 
more rarely me! with in dry forests. If is a member of the natural 
familv AnaeftfUiio , ami' bears th follow inir vn-nacular names 
—thit-si oi thif-t* (T.uni u < A ' nipui . sit <) (Tal ng>, 
kUthony (Karen). I -' a varnish, the timber 
of the tree is valuable, being fairly extensively used, in the 
countries where met with, in the construction of tool-handles, 
anchor-stocks, furniture, &c. ; it has been recommended for gun- 
stocks, &c. Gamble observes that it is handsome and worthy of 
being better known. 
» Gazetteer oi 
by Sir James George 
. it is commonly iounu in mo 
Mawk Mai district. In the May .Myo sub-division the black 
varnish is one of the chief forest products. Much thit-si is still 
extracted in Monghong State. lit it-si is very abundant in the 
zones of forest in which the oak is merging into the in-gyin 
forest. It is universally collected 
has not been tapped oui 
