Melia. ] MKI.I.U \ 71 



A large deciduous tree, with smooth, dark-brown bark. Sapwood 

 grey; hcartwood reddish white, soft. Pores large, generally round, 

 visible on a vertical section. Medullary rays white, Hue, scanty, pro- 

 minent on a radial section. The structure resembles that of Toon, but 

 all the pores are of the same size and the wood is softer. The annual 

 rings are marked by more numerous, but not larger pores. 

 K;i>t.>ni Himalaya, South India, Ceylon and Hurnm. 



Growth rapid ; 2 to 3 rings per inch of radius in tin.- Madras specimen; that from 

 Bengal was moderate. 7 rings per inch. Roxburgh says that a tree of M. robusta 

 grown in the Calcutta Botanic Gardens from Malabar seed produced in 7 years, trees 

 1() feet high, with a girth of 41 inches at 4 feet from the ground, which is equivalent 

 to about 1 ring per inch of radius. Also that another, of M. superba, from seed sent 

 by Dr. Berry from Snnda, reached in G years a height of 40 to 50 feet with a girth 

 of 48 inches. Weight, 26 to 33 Ibs. per cubic foot; used Cor building in South India. 

 The wood will probably be found useful for tea-boxes and similar purposes, and the 

 tive should In- cultivated on account of its rapid growth. 



Ibs. 



E 705. Great Rangit Valley, Darjeeling 33 



D 1093. Madura, Madras 26 



No. 49. Ceylon Collection 26 



B 507 (28 Ibs.) sent from the Andauians under the name of Barringtonia speciosa. 

 Vern. Kyaigyee, Burin. ; Doddd, And., has a wood in every respect similar to that of 

 M. d tibia, but that tree has not yet been reported from the Andaman Islands. 



2. DYSOXYLUM, Blume. 



Besides the three species here described, the following occur in India: D. grande, 

 Hiern ; Hook. PI. Ind. i. 547, a tree of Sylhet; D. pallens, Hiern ; Hook. PI. Ind. i! 

 548, a tree of Sikkim and the Khasia Hills; D. malabaricum, Bedd. ; Hook. PI. 

 Ind. i. 548. (Dysoxylum sp., Beddoine liv.). Vern. Porapd, Kaders; and D. Bed- 

 domei, Hiern ; Hook. PL Ind. i. 548, trees of Southern India. The leaves of several 

 species give out a strong odour of garlic ; the leaves are compound, with oblique often 

 large leaflets, and the capsules are generally large, containing large brightly coloured 

 seeds. 



Wood reddish, rough, moderately hard. Pores prominent on a verti- 

 cal section, moderate sized to large, often subdivided. 



1. D. binectariferum, Hook. f. ; Hook. Fl. Ind. i. 546; Kurz i. 

 215; Gamble 16. D. macrocarpum, Bl. ; Beddome liv, t. 150. Guarea 

 binectarifera, Roxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 240. Vern. Katongzu, Lepcha; Rangi- 

 rata, Cachar; Boror/otodhara, Ass. 



A large evergreen tree. Wood reddish-grey, rough and close- 

 grained, hard. Pores large and moderate-sized, often subdivided. Medul- 

 lary rays moderately broad, red, wavy, irregularly distributed; the 

 distance between the rays generally larger than the transverse diameter 

 of the pores. 



Sikkim ascending to 2,000 feet, Assam, Khasia Hills, Chittagong and the Western 

 Ghats. 



Weight, our specimens give 44 Ibs. per cubic foot. Wood 'worthy of notice. 

 Kyd (Guarea Gotodkara, Ham.) gives 40'5 and P = 290. 



E 644, Khyrbani Forest, Darjeeling Terai 44' 



2. D. procerum, Hiern; Hook. Fl. Ind. i. 547; Kurz i. 214. 



Vern. Dingori, govorpongyota (Wall.), Ass. 



An evergreen tree. Wood bright red, moderately hard. Pores large, 



