10 ANONACE^!. [JUiliusa. 



Sub-Himalayan tract from Nepal to the Ganges, Central India, Godaveri districts 

 and Burma. 



Brandis says, " The seasoned wood weighs from 40 to 50 Ibs. per cubic foot ;" Kurz 

 gives the weight at 42 Ibs. ; Benson's experiments give 60 ; and Skinner's (No. 93) 50 Ibs. 

 15enson's experiments give P = 833, and Skinner's P = 839. 



Used for carts and agricultural implements, spear-shafts and oars. 



IbB. 



B 3062. Prome, Burma 



B 3122. Burma (1862) 48 



O 3113. Dehra Dun 53 



2. M. Roxburghiana, Hook. f. and Th.; Hook. Fl. Ind. i. 87; 

 Kurz. i. 47 ; Gamble 4. Vvaria dioica, Roxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 659. Vern. 

 Sutiffden, Lepcha ; Tusbi, Sylhet. 



A small tree. Bark thin, grey. Wood greyish white, hard. Pores 

 very small, scanty. Medullary rays short, white, of all sizes, from fine to 

 broad, very numerous, prominent on a radial section. Numerous white 

 parallel wavy transverse bands across the rays. 



Terai and valleys of the Bengal Himalaya, Khasia Hills, Chittagong and Burma. 

 Weight 51 Ibs. 



Ibs. 

 E 2316. Chunbati, Darjeeling, 2,000 feet 51 



4. SACCOPETALUM, Bennett. 



Besides the species here described, 8. longiflorum, Hook. f. and Th., is a tree of 

 Eastern Bengal found near Purneah. 



1. S. tomentosum, Hook. f. and Th. ; Hook. Fl. Ind. i. 88.; Bed- 

 dome t. 39 ; Braudis, 7. Uvaria tomentosa, Roxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 667. Vern. 

 Kirna, karri, Hind.; Hoom, Bombay; Chilkadudu, Tel.; T/ws&a, Gondi ; 

 Humbiij Kurku. 



A large tree with straight stem. Bark J inch thick, of various shades, 

 sometimes black, deeply cracked. Wood olive brown, moderately hard, 

 smooth, close-grained ; no heart wood. No annual rings. Pores small 

 and moderate-sized, numerous. Medullary rays broad and fine, very 

 numerous, distinctly visible on a radial section as long, narrow plates, 

 giving the wood a mottled appearance. Numerous, regular, fine, white, 

 transverse bars across the medullary rays, the distance between the rays 

 being a little larger than the transverse diameter of the pores. 



Oudh, Nepal Terai, Gorakhpur, Behar, Central India, Western Ghats. 

 Weight, 45 Ibs. per cubic foot. 



Ibs. 



O 342. Gorakhpur (1868) 



C 1 109. Ahiri Reserve, Central Provinces 45 



The following woods cannot at present be identified, but they probably belong to 



this family : 



B 1949. (58 Ibs.) BoJcenet from Tavoy. A hard, close-grained, yellow wood ; when 

 Reasoned it is said to shew black and white stripes, and is then railed Zebra "Wood. 

 J'oivs small, scanty. Medullary rays fine and very fine, joined by numerous line 

 parallel transverse bars . Used for furniture. Scarce in the Mergui Archipelago but 

 plentiful in the Andaman Islands. 



1! 'Jjisl. C'.2 Ibs.) Keceived from the Andaman Islands in ISt'.G under the name of 

 r rininl<H>n(j, 1'ores small, often siibdi vided. Medullary rays moderately broad, the 

 distance between them many times larger than the transverse diameter of the pores. 

 IV' nun-roil- faint transverse bars. It may possibly be Poly ilthia Juikinsii, Uth. and 

 Hook. i'. 



