Average 13 inches or 1'4 rings 

 per inch, which is fast. 



TAMABJSCINEJB. [ TatnarifB. 



nent, short, fine to very broad, very prominent on a radial section. The 

 distance between the rays is generally three or four times the transverse 

 diameter of the pores. 



Throughout India from Sind to Burma. Often planted for ornament. 

 Of the rate of growth, little is known. Minniken, in his report of 1878 on the 

 Delhi Bela plantation, gives the following measurements of seven trees in the 4th 

 (Jaffar Khan) compartment, 3 years old, 8 to 15 feet high : 

 No. 1 ..... 25 inches "\ 



,,2 ..... 18 



,,3 . . . . 15 ,. 



,,4 ..... 14 



,,5 ..... 12 



,,6 ..... 6 



,,7 ..... 3 



Weight, 49 Ibs. per cuhic foot. The wood is used mainly for fuel, hut also for the 

 supporting sticks of roofs. 



Ibs. 

 P 888. Multan .... ...... 48 



P 1388. Lahore .......... 51 



2. T. articulata, Vahl.; Hook. Fl. Ind. i. 249; Beddome xx; 

 Brandis 22. Yern. Fards, farwa, r^lch, ukhan, Jcharlei, narlei, Pb. ; 

 Asreleij Sind. 



A moderate-sized tree, with grey rough bark, coppices well, and is 

 easily reproduced either by seed or by cuttings ; wood white, moderately 

 hard ; annual rings indistinct. Pores moderate-sized, often in groups, 

 scanty. Medullary rays short, fine to very broad, the distance between 

 the rays somewhat greater than the transverse diameter of the pores ; 

 prominent on a radial section as irregularly shaped plates, giving the 

 wood a mottled appearance. 



Punjab and Sind. 



" Growth rapid, trees 12 years old, on an average attain a girth of 2 to 3 feet, one 

 15 years old measured 4 ft. 10 in. in girth, and it is stated that at times it attains 

 6 ft. in 7 years." Brandis. " It grows very rapidly and to a large size, and I have 

 frequently seen trees of 10 to 12 feet girth and 60 or 70 feet high." J. L. Stewart, 

 Punjab Plants, p. 92. 



Weight : Brandis says, 40 to 60 Ibs. when seasoned ; Stewart says, 92 Ibs. per cubic foot 

 green and 60 Ibs. dry ; the specimen received weighed 61 Ibs. Wood used for many 

 kinds of ordinary work, for ploughs, Persian wheels and small ornaments, and for 

 charcoal. The bark is used for tanning as well as the galls (Mdi, Punjab ; Sakun, Sind) 

 which are also used as a mordant in dyeing. 



Ibs. 

 P 886. Multan ........... 61 



2. MYRICARIA, Desvaux. 



The genus contains, besides the species given below, M. eleyans, Royle, a small 

 bush of the inner Wc-Mi-m Himalaya and Tibet, where it is very valuable as fuel. 



1. M. gennanica, Desv. ; Hook. Fl. Ind, i. 250; Brandis 23. 

 Vern. Bis 3 thalakdt, kathi, humbu, Pb.; Omlu, Lahoul. 



A shrub with rough brownish bark. Wood hard, white. Annual 

 rings marked by porous spring wood. Pores small, medullary rays 

 broad, short, very numerous and prominent. 



Inner Himalaya from Punjab to SiklJni. 



Wood used for fuel, ;m<l the br.-im-hrs :is fodder for slurp and goats. 



Ibs. 



;/*. Chuinbi ViiJk-y.. Tibet. 10,000 ft 



