. ] MAGNOLIACEJ3. 7 



Eastern Himalaya, from 6,000 to 8,000 feet ; Khasia Hills. 



(h-mvtli rather slow; 13 to 16 rings per inch of r.vlius :nv shewn by our specimens. 

 Weight, 33 to 3-1 Ibs. per cubic foot. The wood is very <lur;ibl inn-n X<>. 1442 



w;is cut in 1836 and kept since then in Calcutta; the wood is now as sound a> if i'resh 

 cut. 



Used for building, but chiefly for planking, door and window frames, and for furni- 

 ture. The principal building and furniture wood of the Darjeeling Hills. 



Ibs. 

 E 657. Chuttoclcpur Forest, Darjeeling, 6,000 feet . . . .33 



E 2312. Kangbiil Forest, Darjeeliug, 7,000 feet 33 



E 1412. Mishmi Hills (Griffith, 1836) 34 



4. M. lamiginosa, Wall.; Hook. Fl. Ind. i. 43; Gamble 2. Vern. 

 Gogay champ, Nep. 



A large deciduous tree. Bark -^ inch thick, greyish brown, 

 smooth. Wood grey, soft, shining. Pores small, scanty. Medullary 

 rays fine and very fine, closely packed. Narrow concentric (annual?) 

 rings of soft texture, often confluent. 



Forests of Sikkini and the Khasia Hills from 5,000 to 7,000 feet. 

 Growth moderate. Weight 27 Ibs. per cubic foot. 



Ib8. 



E 3099. Darjeeling, 7,000 feet 27 



. 5. M. oblonga, Wall. ; Hook. Fl. Ind. i. 43. Vern. Sappa, pliul- 

 sappa, Assam. 



A tree. Sapwood white ; heartwood dark grey, soft. Annual rings 

 indistinct. Pores moderate-sized, often in short radial lines. Medullary 

 rays fine, uniform, closely packed, equidistant; the distance between two 

 rays less than the transverse diameter of the pores. 



Khasia Hills and Assam. 



Weight, 40 Ibs. per cubic foot. The wood is used in Assam for canoes and rough 

 furniture. 



E 1268. Lakhimpur, Assam 40 



ORDER IV. ANONACE.E. 



This order contains 21 Indian genera, the majority of which are South Indian 

 and Burmese. 



They belong to 5 tribes, viz., 



Tribe I. Uvariea) .... Uvaria and Ellipeia. 



II. Unoneac .... Cyatliocalyx, Artabotrys, Cananga, 



Cyathostemma, Unona, Polyal- 



tJiia, Anaxayorca and Popowia. 

 III. Mitrephorece .... Oxymitra, PJucunthtis, Gonio- 



t'halamns and 3Iih'i'pJioi\i. 



IV. Xylopicao .... Anona and Mclodornm. 

 V. Miliuseaj .... Miliusa, Saccopefalum, Alphonsca, 



Oropliea and Uocu 



One genus, Anona. contains introduced fruit trees; five, Uvaria, EUipcia, Arta- 

 lotrys, Oxymitra and Afelodorum, chiefly climbing shrubs; fifteen, Ci/dt/incdJ)/^, 

 Cyatkostemma, Unona, Polyalthia, Anaxagorca, Popowia, Pit, >/'//<(- 



fa in us, M/'frej >//('((, Miliusa, Saccopctalum, Oropfiea, Canamja, Ali>honsea and 

 Bocagca, are shrubs or trees. In Northern and Central India the family is represented 



