J28 LEGUMINOS^;. [Dallcrgia. 



E 672. Bamunpokri, Darjeeling Terai 50 



E 2348. 60 



W 1227. North Kanara . . 54, 



W 720. South 



W 855. 



D 2044. Mysore 



D 1072. North Arcot 



No. 24. Salem Collection 



55 

 10 



51 

 57 



62 



3. D. cultrata, Grab.; Hook. Fl. Ind. ii. 233; Kurz i. 342. Veru. 

 Yendike, Burm. 



A moderate-sized tree. Bark | inch thick, smooth, with short transverse 

 clefts. Wood purplish black, with darker streaks, with harder wood than, 

 but structure similar to, that of D. lalifoiia. 



Burma. 



Weight, according to Benson, 83 Ibs. ; according to Brandis' Burma List, 1862, 

 No. 36, 64 Ibs. ; our specimens give 69 and 70 Ibs. Benson gives, from experiments 

 made with bars 3' X 1'4" X T4", P = 1003. It is used for wheels, agricultural 

 implements, handles of dahs and spears, and especially for carvings. The sap-wood 

 is very perishable, but the heartwood extremely durable. 



Ibs. 



B 2521. Burma (1862) 70 



B 2728. Nawing Forests, Prome (1858) . . . . . . 69 

 B 2697. Tavoy (Wallich, 1828) 



4. Specimens marked Thitpoke (B2523), collected in Burma in 1862 

 (Brandis' Burma List, 862, No. 133), have light yellow wood with 

 numerous concentric bands, scanty, large and moderate sized pores, and 

 very fine, very numerons, uniform and equidistant medullary rays. 

 Thitpoke is identified by Kurz as Dalbergia purpurea, Wall., Hook. Fl. 

 Ind. ii. 235; Kurz i. 344; which has a small heartwood. To this also 

 belongs B 2230 from the Andaman Islands. 



5. D. lanceolaria, Linn.; Hook. Fl. Ind. ii. 235; Brandis 151 ; 

 Gamble 29. D. frondosa, Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 226; Beddome Ixxxviii. 

 Vern. Talwli, bithua, Hind.; Bander siris, Nep. ; Barbatj parbati, Buns- 

 warra ; Gengri, Panch Mehals; Harrdni, Dharwar ; Nal valaitga, Tarn. ; 

 Pedda sopara, yerra pat*arn, pasarganni, Tel.; Dandous, kanrchi, Mar. 



A deciduous tree. Bark inch thick, compact, grey, smooth, exfoliat- 

 ing in thin rounded patches. Wood white, moderately hard, not dur- 

 able, no heartwood. Annual rings (?) marked by thin, concentric lines. 

 Pores scanty, large and moderate-sized, larger and somewhat more 

 numerous in the spring wood ; often oyal and subdivided, very prominent 

 on a longitudinal section. Medullary rays extremely fine, very numer- 

 ous, very regularly distributed, joined by very fine, short, white bars. 



Sub-Himalayan tract from the Jumna eastwards, ascending to 2,500 feet, Out nil 

 and South India. 



Skinner, No. 53, gives for the weight 62 Ibs. per cubic foot ; Wallich 46 Ibs. ; our 

 sjK-ciiiH-ns give only 33 to 44 Ibs. Skinner also gives P = 1003, but it is probable thai 

 he has not described Ilie rii-hl, wood, for, although he gives the correct Tclugu name, 

 yet he calls his specimens (No, . r >:{, ]>. 75) Moufahow, Dunn., and " JMonlmein lance-wood ;" 

 while Km-/., the latest authority, does not give D. lanceolarnt as occurring in IJurnia. 

 Skinner says that one log was brought from the western coast, and another by Con- 

 ductor Bowman from Burma. Uedd<ni- siys tin- timber is useful for building i>ur- 



