Valeria. ] DIPTEROCARPE.E. 4-1 



The wood is of good quality, 1 hough scarcely known ; it is valued in South Kanara 

 for building temples and may be found useful for sleepers. 



W745. South Kanara J 



W759. ; <j 3 



5. VATKRIA, Linn. 



Only one species is indigenous in India, though fourteen are described from 

 Ceylon. 



1. V. indica, Linn.; Hook. Fl. Ind. i. 313; Roxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 602. 

 V. m-alabarica, Blurne; Beddome t. 84. The Piney Varnish or Indian 

 Copal Tree. Vern. Piney maram, dhup maram, vallay ktingiliam, 

 kondricam, Tamil; Dupa maram, dhupa, paini, munda dhup, Kan.; 

 Dupada, Tel. ; Payani, paini mara, ve/la kondrikam, Mai. ; Hal, Cingh. 



A large evergreen tree, bark whitish. Sapwood white with a tinge 

 of red ; heartwood grey, rough, moderately hard, porous. Pores small and 

 moderate-sized, often in groups. Medullary rays fine and broad, very 

 prominent on all vertical sections, while on a radial section they appear 

 as rough plates with white shining fibres between them. The dis- 

 tance between the broad rays is generally greater than the transverse 

 diameter of the pores. 



Western moist zone. Western Ghats from Kanara to Travancore, ascending to 

 4,000ft. 



Weight 41 Ibs. per cubic feet. 



Wood not much in request, occasionally used for canoes, for coffins and the masts 

 of native vessels. It gives an excellent varnish resembling copal. 



Iba. 



W 747. South Kanara 41 



W 1187. 41 



6. DOONA, Thwaites. 

 A genus of Ceylon trees, 10 species. 



1. D. zeylanica, Thwaites Enum. 34; Hook. Fl. Ind. i. 311 ; Bed- 

 dome t. 97. Vern. Doon, Cingh. 



A large tree. Bark rough and cracked. Heartwood the colour of 

 sal, moderately hard. Pores large, often subdivided. Medullary rays 

 fine, uniform and equidistant, the distance between the rays less than 

 the transverse diameter of the pores. 



Central Provinces of Ceylon, up to 4,000ft. 



Weight, according to A. Mendis, 29 Ibs. Wood used for housebuilding. The tree 

 gives a large quantity of colourless gum resin, which, dissolved in spirits of wine or 

 turpentine, makes an excellent varnish. 



Ibs. 



No. 25, Ceylon Collection 29 



ORDER XVII. MALVACEAE. 



An order of which in India about 22 genera are found, mostly herbs or small under- 

 shrubs, with ten genera of trees or large shrubs. Few of them are valuable for their 

 timber, though the wood of Bombax malabaricum is extensively used for temporary 

 constructions and boxes. Many are valuable for their fibres, and particularly Adinso- 

 nia and Hibiscus. The Cotton Plant, Gossypium, belongs to this family, only one 

 species of the genus, G. Sforksii; Masters, a straggling shrub of the limestone rocks on 

 the coast of Siud. being indigenous in India. 



