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THE CYCLONE AT CALCUTTA. 
some of the trees are apparently uninjured. A species of Uhmis, about 
60 feet liigli, has, for the last three years, flowered regularly in March, 
before the leaf buds ; this year it has remained partially in leaf all 
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winter and produced only a few flowers. The flowering or fruiting of 
trees for the first time in India shortly after the Cyclone may be ac- 
counted for by changes resulting from the sudden check given to 
growth, and especially to the ripening of wood in October. I do not, 
however, attach much importance to the two cases of this kind that 
occur to me; one is the flowering of Bioon edule about two months 
after the gale, the other^ of an old specimen of Gusiavia anffusta^ which 
has been twenty years in the garden without flowering. It was partially 
uprooted, and in this position, in February, it produced a large number 
of flowers, followed by some well-formed fruits. Some trees have been 
killed by the mere force of the wind, or by the violent strain sustained, 
which, during the height of the storm is said to have been 120 lb. on 
the square foot. Some species, especially of Dipie?'ocarpecej Guftifer^e, 
the genera Dalhergia, PterocarpuSi Acacia^ Araucaria^ and Dammaray 
have their stems covered with exudations of resin, or gum, which have 
oozed through the bark on the upward flow of the sap in March, 
There are very few species of trees of which specimens have not been 
thrown down ; the only ones that seem to have entirely escaped, and of 
which the specimens, with few exceptions, are unique, are the following: 
DipterocarpuB alatus, 
Crataeva Roxburghii. 
riacourtia catapliracta. 
Iljdnocarpus inebriens. 
Gynocardia odorata. 
Eriodendron orientale, 
StercuUa ornata. 
S. comosa. 
S. angustifolia. 
Tisenia velutina. 
Hopea faginea. 
Acer oblongum. 
Ailanthus excelsus. 
Erytlu-ina Indica. 
Pterocarpus Indicus. 
P. dalbergeoides, 
Poinciana regia. 
Cassia nodosa. 
Pitliccolobium bigeminum. 
Terminalia angustifolia. 
T. citrina. 
T. Ben^i. 
T. Tra vane or ens is. 
T. tomcntosa. 
T. paniculata. 
lS"auclea paryiflora. 
K. cordifolia. 
Mimusops hexandra. 
M. Indiea. 
Diospyroa Sapota, 
D. embiyopteris. 
Spathodea Hheedii. 
S. adenophylla. 
Vitex saligna. 
Campliora offlcinanim, 
BeQschmiedia Eoxburghiana 
Crjptocarya fioribunda. 
