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LUCUMINOS.E. 



[ Plerocarpus. 



nursery are about six months old, they may be safely transferred to wicker or bamboo 

 baskets, which must be done during the rams. They must be carefully removed with 

 pointed instruments, so that their tap-roots are not injured or broken. The wicker 

 baskets with the plants should be placed in a shady spot and watered every second or 

 third day, and when it is perceived that the roots have taken firm hold, and the plants 

 quite revived, the baskets should be buried in pits I/ X V X 2" at about five or six 

 feet apart, and watered till the rains set in. During the time the plants are in the 

 nursery, as a protection from the sun, I always found Peruvian cotton, planted neat 

 or around, very beneficial. Of course any shade will suit the purpose required." 



D 2066. Mysore . . 



D 2917. Madras (Brandis) 



D 1075. North Arcot (with sap wood) 



D 3151. Cuddapah, Madras " . 



Ibs. 

 76 



66 



77 



3. P. Marsupium, Roxb. ; Fl. Ind. iii. 234; Hook. Fl. Tnd. ii. 239; 

 Beddome t. 21 ; Brandis 152. Vern. JBija, bijasdr, bijasdl, piasal, 

 Hind. ; Byasa, Uriya; Dhorbeula, asan, Mar. ; Peddei, Gondi ; Peddagi, 

 yeanga, yeggi, yegisa, pedega, pedei, Tel. -, Vengai, Tarn. ; Benga, honne, 

 Kan.; Bijaira, Bijeragogarh ; Radat bera, Bhil. 



A large deciduous tree. Bark J inch thick, grey, with long vertical 

 cracks, exfoliating in small pieces of irregular shape and size. Sap- 

 wood small ; heartwood brown, with darker streaks, very hard, durable, 

 yielding a red resin. Pores moderate-sized and large, often subdivided, 

 uniformly distributed. Numerous fine, white, wavy, concentric lines 

 at regular intervals. Medullary rays extremely fine and numerous ; 

 not visible except under a lens, uniform and equidistant, prominent on 

 a radial section. Pores marked on a vertical section ; the transverse 

 diameter of the pores many times larger than the distance between the 

 rays. 



Central and South India, extending northwards to the Banda District of the North- 

 Western Provinces. 



The weight and transverse strength have been determined by the following ex- 

 periments : 



The wood is durable, seasons well and takes a fine polish ; the heartwood is full of 

 <^iun resin and stains yellow when damp. It is much used for doors and window 

 frames, posts and beams, furniture, agricultural implements, cart and boat building. 

 It has also been used for sleepers. Out of 25 sleepers which had been clown 7 to 8 

 years on the Mysore State Railway, I here were found, when taken up. D good, 11 still 

 serviceable and 5 bad. It has also been used to a certain extent on the Ilolkar and 

 Ni-i-niucli and other lines. It yields, from wounds in the bark, a red gum-ivsiu 

 culled 4 kiuo," a valuable astringent, much used in medicine. 



