Cratoxylon, ] HYPERICINE^:. 21 



ORDER XIII. HYPEEICINE.E. 



A small order with three Indian genera. One, Ascyrum, contains only one small 

 plant from Sikkim. ./////><> vV n,n, a number of herbs and small shrubs of the Himalaya, 

 Ihc most common of which are H. ccrui>/> ,, lloxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 400; Hook. Fl. Ind. i. 

 253, a handsome small shrub \vi1Ii larg.: bright yellow (lowers, found in the Western 

 J I imalaya especially on rocks ; and IL. 21(jo/c< i-ia/ntm, W. and A.; Hook. Fl. Ind. i. 

 251; Gamble 6. Vcrn. Tumbomri, Lepcha. (E 2861, Darjeeling, 7,000 ft. (43 Ibs.) ) a 

 very common, rather gregarious, handsome shrub of the Sikkim Himalaya, often used 

 for hedges. This last has a close-grained, moderately hard wood, with annual rings 

 marked by a ring of larger pores than those in the rest of the ring, which are small, 

 scanty. Medullary rays fine, very numerous. 



1. CRATOXYLON, Bl. 



A genus of five trees from Burma and the Andaman Islands containing besides the 

 one described, C.formosum, Bth. and Hook, f ., f rom theAudamaus, and C.pruni/lorum, 

 Kurz, C. polyanthum, Korth., and C. arborescens, Bl., from Martaban and 



Tenasserim. 



I. C. neriifolium, Kurz i. 85.; Hook. Fl. Ind. i. 257. Vern. 

 a, Burm. 



A tree. Bark dark coloured, rough. Wood dark grey, hard, close- 

 grained. Pores large, in short narrow wavy irregular patches of softer 

 tissue. Medullary rays not prominent, fine, numerous, on a radial section 

 visible as dark narrow plates. 



Chittagong and Burma. 



Weight, 47 Ibs. per cub. ft. According to Kurz, the wood is used for building 

 purposes, for ploughs, handles of chisels, hammers and other implements. 



Ibs. 



B 312. Burma (1867) 47 



ORDER XIV. GUTTIFEEJE. 



An order of tropical trees, containing six genera, belonging to two tribes, viz. : 

 Tribe I. Garcinie .... Garcinia and Ochrocarpus. 



II. Calophyllese .... Calophyllum, Kayea, Mesua and 



Pceciloneuron. 



Of Ochrocarpus, there are three species. O. longifolius, Bth. and Hook, f , ; Hook. 

 Fl. Ind. i. 270; Beddome t. 89. Vern. Suringi, Mar. ; Sura-ponna, Tel.; Seraya, 

 Mai- ; Wundi, taringi ( 6 ), poone ( $ ), suringi, gardundi ( ), Kan., is a large, 

 usually dioecious tree of the Western Ghats, whose dried flowers are used for dyeing silk. 

 Skinner, No. 35 (Calophyllum longifolium) gives weight 45 Ibs. P = 546. O. sia- 

 mensis, T. And. ; Hook. Fl. Ind. i. 270 ; Kurz i. 94. Vern. TarapJiee, Burm., is an ever- 

 green tree of the Eng forests of Prome and Martaban, and O. nervosus, Kurz i. 94, 

 an evergreen tree of the tropical forests of the Arracan Yomah. P&ciloncuron 

 includes two species, given by Beddome under Ternstromiacese, but referred to this 

 Family by Dyer in "Flora Indica, i. 278." P. indicum, Beddome t. 3. Vern. 

 Itirdalli, Kan., is a large tree of the western slopes of the Ghats from South Kanara 

 to Malabar, from 3,000 to 4,000 ft., said by Beddome to have a hard wood used for 

 rice-pounders. P. pauciflorum, Beddome t. 93. Veru. PudancjalU, is a large tree of 

 the Ghats of Tinnevelly and Travancore with a valuable, hard, reddish timber, used 

 for building, and to make walking-sticks. 



Wood red (in Calophyllum, Mesua and some species of Garci/u'a), 

 generally with a distinct hcartwood. Pores variable in size. Medullary 

 rays generally fine. Numerous concentric lines or bands of soft texture 

 across the rays. 



1. GAKCINIA, Linn. 

 A large genus of evergreen, opposite-leaved trees, usually with a yellow juice, 



