102 SAPINDACE^I, [Staphylea. 



North- West Himalaya, above 6,000 feet. 



Sticks are made of the wood which are sold in the hill bazars. They are supposed 

 by the Afghans and frontier tribes to have the property of keeping off snakes. 

 Weight, 44 Ibs. per cubic foot. 



Ibs. 



H 2900. Nagkanda, Simla, 8,000 feet 41 



H 3189. Dungagalli, Hazara, 7,000 feet 47 



10. TURPINIA, Vent. 



Contains 2 Indian species, which in the Flora Indica are described as one. T. pomi- 

 fera, DC., Kurz i. 292 ; Gamble 23. Vern. Nagpat, Nep. ; Singnok, Lepcha ; Toukshama, 

 Burm., is a tree of the tropical forests of Bengal and Burma: while T. nepalensis 

 comes from the hills. 



1. T. nepalensis, Wall. ; Beddome t. 159; Kurz i. 292; Gamble 23. 

 T.pomifera, DC.; Hook. Fl. Lid. i. 698. Vern. Thali, Nep.; Murgut, 

 Lepcha; Nila, Nilgiris. 



A moderate-sized deciduous tree. Bark -^ inch thick, grey, smooth. 

 Wood grey, soft, even -grained. Pores small, very numerous, uniformly 

 distributed. Medullary rays of two classes, the first being moderately 

 broad, scanty, short, and the second fine, very numerous. 



Himalaya from the Nepal Frontier eastwards, between 4,000 and 7,000 feet, 

 Assam, Cachar, Chittagong and Burma. 



Weight, 30 Ibs per cubic foot. Wood not used, leaves given as fodder to cattle. 



Ibs. 



E 649. Sepoy dura Forest, Darjeeling, 5,500 feet .... 30 

 E 3108. Darjeeling, 6,000 feet 



ORDER XXXV. SABIACEJE. 



Contains 2 Indian genera, viz. : Meliosma, which is here described, and com- 

 prises trees or shrubs ; and Sabia, a genus of about 10 climbing or sarmentose shrubs. 

 Among these latter S. campanulata, Wall. ; Hook. Fl, Ind. ii. i ; Brandis 116. Vern. 

 Bakcdpata, Kumaun, of the Himalaya from Simla to Sikkim, above 5,000 ft. (H 3030, 

 Nagkanda, 9,000 ft. ; H 3193, Theog. 7,000 ft.) ; S. paniculata, Edgew.; Hook. Fl. 

 Ind. ii. 3 ; Brandis 117 ; Gamble 23 of the Sub-Himalayan tract from the Jumna to 

 Sikkim and 8. leptandra, Hook. f. and Th. ; Hook. Fl. Ind. ii. 2; Gamble 23. 

 Vern. Simali, Nep. ; Payongrik, Lepcha, of the Sikkim Hills, are the most noticeable. 

 They have a soft wood, with large pores and broad medullary rays. 



1. MELIOSMA, Blume. 



A genus containing 7 species of Indian trees. Two are found in North-West 

 India, four in the Eastern Himalaya, one in Burma and three in South India. Of 

 those not here described , M. pungens, Wall. ; Brandis 116. Vern. Gardar, kharas, 

 Kumaun, is a tree of the North- West Himalaya from the Indus to Nepal, but nuv 

 west of the Sutlej; M. Wightii, Planch. (M. pungens, Bedd. Ixxvii). Vern. Tode, Nilgiris, 

 is a tree of the Western Ghats often called Hill Mango by Europeans, but not used ; M. 

 Arnottiana, Wight ; Beddome 1. 160. Vern. Hull makay, Nilgiris ; Massivtira, Mysore, 

 is a large tree of the hills of South India, above 4,000 ft. elevation. Beddome says the 

 heartwood of old trees is striped red and white, but that the timber is worthless. J\f. 

 pinnata, lloxb. Fl. Ind. i. 104 ; Gamble 23. Vern. Bolay, Nep. ; Batiwa, Sylhet, is a 

 Targe tree of the outer Eastern Himalaya and Khasia Hills, whose wood is used for 

 house-building. 



Pores small, arranged in groups, or iu short radial lines. 



