Benya. ] 



TILTACE^;. 



53 



The Weight and Transverse strength have been determined by the following 

 experiments: 



Benson's Byttneria, weighing 721bs., is probably this. The wood is very durable. 

 No. H 2722 had been 50 years in Calcutta, and was perfectly sound and good on being 

 cut into. It is used for carts, agricultural implements and spear-handles, and in Madras 

 for masiila boats, and is much esteemed for toughness and flexibility. 



Iba. 



B 288. Burma (1867) 52 



B 327. (1866) 61 



B 1420. Tharrawaddi, Burma 65 



B 1452. Prome, Burma 65 



B 2722. Tavoy (Wallich, 1828) 63 



B 3118. Burma (1862) 58 



3. GREWIA, Linn. 



A large genus containing about 30 Indian trees and shrubs, distributed all over 

 India, except in the inner arid Himalaya. Q-. opposififolia is found as high up as 

 6,000 feet in the North -West Himalaya. There are 12 species in North- West and 

 Central India, 8 in the North-East, 17 in South India and 10 in Burma. 



The genus contains 3 sections, of which the first, Grewia, contains the majority 

 of species. The second, Omphacarpus, contains only one species G. calophylla 

 Kurz i. 157 Vern. Mayanbo, Burm., a small evergreen tree of the coast forests 

 of the Andamans. The third Microcos contains two species : G. sinuata, Wall. 

 Hook. Fl. Ind. i. 392; Kurz i. 158, a large shrub of the swamp forests of Burma; 

 and G. Microcos, Linn.; Hook. Fl. Ind. i. 392; Kurz i. 157 (G. ulmifolia, Roxb. 

 Fl. Ind. ii. 591). Vern. Aswar, Beng. ; Tardh, Magh; Myat-ya, Burm.; Thayoh, 

 Arracan Weight 5L Ibs (Brandis, 1862, No. 10), a small tree of Eastern Bengal, 

 Chittagong, Burma and South India. In the section Grewia, besides those herein 

 described, may be noticed : G. villosa, Willd. ; Hook. Fl. Ind. i. 388 ; Brandis 39 Vern. 

 Jnzarra, pastuwanne, Pb. ; Dhohan, Ajmere ; Jalidar, Jcaskusri, thamther, Salt 

 Range, a small shrub of the arid zone in Rajputana, the Punjab and Sind ; G. sapida, 

 Roxb. Fl. Ind. ii, 590 ; Hook. Fl. Ind. i. 387 ; Brandis 41 ; Gamble J2, a well known, 

 small, yellow flowered undorshrnb of the Sub-Himalayan forests, sending up yearly 

 numerous shoots from a perennial root-stock ; and G sclerophylla, Roxb. ; Brandis 39 ; 

 Kurz i. 162 ( . scabropkylla, Roxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 584 ; Hook. Fl. Ind. i. 387 ; Gamble 

 12) Vern. Pharsia, Kumaun, a small shrub with white flowers and large leaves, of 

 similar localities; G. Iceriqata, Vahl. ; Hook. Fl. Ind. i. 389; Beddome xxxvii ; 

 Brandis 42; Kurz i. 150; Gamble 12 (G. didyma, Roxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 591) Vern. Kat 



