Veron in.] i ; i T A c MR. 6 3 



Sub-Himalayan i'oivsts from the Ravi eastwards, Bengal, South India, Chanda 

 district in the Central Provinces. 



Wright, SOlbs. per cubic foot, according to Skinner, No. 74; 49 according to Cun- 

 ninghara. Value of P. 623 (Cunningham) ; 645 (Skinner). The wood is used for 

 house-building, naves of wheels, oil-crushers and agricultural implements. It gives 

 a gum similar to gum arabic. The pulp of the fruit is acid and is made into jelly. 



E 2487. Calcutta 



8. AEGLE, Correa. 



1. A. Marmelos, Correa; Hook. Fl. Ind. i. 5] 6; Roxb. Fl. Ind. 579; 

 Beddome t. 161 ; Brandis 57 ; Kurz i. 198; Gamble 15. The Bael Tree. 

 Vern. Bel, Hind. ; J3ela } Beng. ; Mahaka, Gondi; Beta, Kurku; Vilva, 

 Tarn. ; Maredu, patir, marat, Tel.; Bilapalri, Kan. ; Okshit, Burm. 



A small tree, bark | inch thick, outer substance soft, grey, exfoliating 

 in irregular flakes. Wood yellowish white, hard, with a strong aromatic 

 scent when fresh cut ; no heartwood, not durable, readily eaten by insects. 

 Pores small, uniformly distributed. Medullary rays wavy, fine, short, 

 white, numerous, uniform and equidistant. Annual rings marked by 

 distinct lines, and often by a continuous belt of pores. In some cases the 

 pores are more numerous in the autumn wood. 



Sub-Himalayan forests from the Jhelam eastwards, Central and South India, 

 Burma. 



Weight, 40 to SOlbs. (Brandis) ; Wallich gives 49 ; our specimens average 57 Ibs. 

 The tree is not often cut, as it is chiefly valued for its fruit, the pulp of which is 

 used medicinally in diarrhoea and dysentery, as a sherbet and as a conserve, keeping 

 well when dry. The wood is used in construction, for the pestles of oil and sugar- 

 mills, naves and other parts of carts, and for agricultural implements. 



ibs. 



P 441. Ajmere 



O 248. Garhwal (1868) 57 



O 268. 60 



C 1176. Ahiri Reserve, Central Provinces 52 



C 2785. Melghat, Berar 62 



E 2486. Calcutta 



E 638. Goalpara, Assam 53 



B 564. Prome, Burma . . . . . . . . .60 



The structure of Cratceva religiosa is very similar to this, but the wood is much 

 softer, and the pores are enclosed in patches of soft tissue. 



OBDER XXIV. SIMAEUBE^J. 



Contains eight genera of Indian trees or shrubs, almost always with bitter bark. 

 They belong to 2 Tribes, viz., 



Tribe I. SimarubeaB Ailanthus, Samadera, Picrasma, 



Brncea, Eurycoma and Suridna. 

 II. Picramnieae .... Harrisonia and Balanites. 



Harrisonia Bennettii, Hook.; Hook. Fl. Ind. i. 519; Kurz i. 203. Vern. 

 Tapooben, Burm., is a small spinous tree of Burma. Brucea contains two bitter 

 shrubs : B. sumatrana, Roxb. Fl. Ind. i. 449 ; Hook. Fl. Ind. i. 521, of Assam, 

 Tenasserini and the Andaman Islands ; and B. mollis. Wall. ; Hook. Fl. Ind. i. 521 ; 

 Gamble 15, of Sikkira, Bhutan, Sylhet and Burma, ascending to 6,000 feet. Eurycoma 

 longifolia, Jack ; Hook. Fl. Ind. i. 52 ; Kurz i. 202, is a small tree of Tenasserim 

 and the Andaman Islands, with a bitter bark which, in the Mala}- Archipelago, is used 

 as a febrifuge. Suriana maritima, Linn. ; Hook. Fl. Ind. i. 522; W. and A. Prodr. 

 361 (Surianecc), is a sea-side shrub with thick velvety branches and yellow flowers. 

 Quassia wood is the produce of Quassia amara, a tree of the West Indies. 



