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ORDER X. PITTOSPOEE53. 



An order containing one genus of Indian trees or shrubs, the remaining genera 

 being chiefly Australian. The genus Pittosporum, Hook. PI. Ind. i. 198, contains eight 

 Indian >pccics, two of which, P. glabratum, Ldl. and P. humilc, Hook. f. and Th., grow 

 in tl! Kliasiu Hills; 1 hree, P. tetraspermum, W. and A., P. nilghirense, W. and A., 

 and P. daxyrtdf/un, Miq., on the Western Ghats, and one, P. ferrugincum, Ail.; 

 Kurz i. 78, in Hurma. Of the remaining two : one, P. eriocarpum, Royle ; Brandis 

 1'J, is found in the outer Himalaya of Kumaun and Garhwal (Meda tumri, gar-silung, 

 garshuna, Hind.) ; and the other, P.florilundum, W. and A. ; Beddome xvii; Brandis 19 ; 

 Gamble 6 (Celastrus verticillata, Roxb. PI. Ind. i. 624). Vern. Yekaddi, Mar.; 

 Prongzam, Lepcha, is a common small tree of the outer Himalaya from the Jumna to 

 Bhutan ascending to 8,000 feet, the Khasia Hills and Western Ghats. 



ORDER XL POLYGALEJE. 



Three Indian genera of woody plants of little forest interest. 



Poly gala arillata, Ham. ; Hook. PL Ind. i. 200 ; Gamble 6 (Ckamceluxus arillata, 

 Hassk. ; Kurz i. 79). Vern. Karima, Nep. ; Michepnor, Lepcha, is a shrub of Northern 

 Bengal and the Khasia Hills; and P. Karensium, Kurz (C. Karensium, Kurz i. 79), 

 a shrub of Martaban. Securidaca tavoyana, Wall. ; Hook. PI. Ind. i. 208 (S. inap- 

 pendiculata, Hassk.; Kurz i. 80), is a large woody climber of Eastern Bengal, 

 Arracan and Tenasserim. Xanthophyllum contains four species : X. flavescens, 

 Roxb. PL Ind. ii. 222 ; Hook. PL In'd. i. 209 ; Kurz i. 81 (including, according to 

 Bennett in the " Flora Indica," X. Amottianum, Wight, X. angustifolium, Wight, and 

 X. virens, Roxb. ; Beddome xix). Vern. Ajensak, gandi, Beng. ; Thitpyoo, Burm., is 

 a tree of Bengal, South India, and Burma, said by Kurz to have a heavy, close-grained 

 wood. X. glaucum, Wall.; X. Griffitkii, Hook. f. ; and X. affine, Korth., are 

 evergreen trees of Burma. 



ORDER XII. 



A small order containing bushes or small trees with small sessile or scale-like 

 sheathing leaves : two genera, Tamarix and Myricairia. 



Wood white or reddish, sometimes darker in the centre, but no heart- 

 wood. Pores small to moderate-sized, often in groups, more numerous 

 and large in the spring wood wherever the annual rings are distinct, 

 Medullary rays generally moderately broad to broad, short, distant. 



1. TAMARIX, Linn. 



Bushes or small trees, with scale-like leaves and white or pink flowers, chiefly found 

 on the banks of streams and on the lowlands near rivers. There are six species, of 

 which the most important are : T. articulata, Vahl, T. dioica, Roxb., and T. gallica, 

 Linn. ; Hook. PL Ind. i. 248 ; Beddome xx ; Brandis 20 ; Kurz i. 83 (T. indica, Roxb. 

 PL Ind. ii. 100), Vern. Koan, rufch, leinya, ghazlei, pilchi, Pb- ; Lei, ldi,jhau, Sind; 

 Yelta, Tibet ; Jhau, Beng., the last two species being found along rivers and the sea-coast 

 almost throughout India. Of the remaining species, T. salina, Dyer, and T. strichr, 

 Boiss, are found in the Punjab and Sind, and T. ericoides, Rottb., in Bengal and Central 

 India. Mathieu, PL Por. p. 23 gives 40 to 48 Ibs. as the weight per cubic foot of T. 

 gallica. 



1. T. dioica, Roxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 101; Hook. Fl. Ind. i. 249; 

 Beddome xx ; Brandis 21 ; Kurz. i. 83 ; Gamble 6 ; Vern. Lei, pilchi, 

 koan, kachleiy Pb. ; Gaz, ldo,jau, Sind ; Laljhau, Beng. ; Jan, Hind. 



A gregarious shrub. Bark grey with reticulate cracks, shewing the 

 red inner bark. "Wood moderately hard, red, outer portion white. 

 Pores small to moderate-sized, in groups or short radial lines, more 

 abundant and larger in the spring wood. Medullary rays very promi- 



