Baufiinia.] I.WSUXTINOSJE. 141 



A moderate-sized deciduous tree. Bark grey, with vertical cracks. 

 Wood grey, moderately hard, with irregular masses of darker and harder 

 wood in the centre. Pores moderate-sized, enclosed in round or elongated 

 and pointed concentric patches of white soft tissue, which often run into 

 each other. The intervening tissue is firm and dark coloured, with 

 very numerous, fine, uniform and equidistant white medullary rays. 

 Distinct, white, concentric lines, which probably are annual rings. 

 Medullary rays distinctly visible on a radial section, giving the wood a 

 handsome mottled appearance. 



Sub-Himalayan tract from the Indus eastwards, and throughout the forests of 



India and Burma. Often planted for ornament. 



Weight, according to E. Thompson, 54 Ibs. ; our specimen gives 42 Ibs. Used for 



agricultural implements. The bark is used for ctyeing and tanning, and the leaves and 



flower buds eaten. The flowers are very handsome, somewhat like those of some of the 



Azaleas, but having four white and one criinsou petal. 



Ibs. 

 P 1200. Madhopur, Punjab ......... 33 



C 823. Bairagarh Reserve, Berar ....... 48 



E 591. Khooklong Forest, Darjeeling Terai ..... 47 



E 2351. Bamunpokri ..... 39 



5. B. retusa, Ham. ; Hook. Fl. Ind. ii, 279; Roxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 322; 

 Beddome xciii. ; Brandis 161. Vern. Kurdl, Pb. ; Kandla, Jcanalla., kuayral, 

 gwayralj kanlaOj semla, Hind. ; Nirpa, Gondi, Tel. ; Tewar, Palamow. 



A moderate-sized deciduous tree. Bark J inch thick, dark brown, 

 with a few vertical cracks. Wood reddish white, with irregularly shaped, 

 darker masses near the centre, hard. Pores moderate-sized and large, 

 scanty, occasionally grouped. Numerous narrow, white, concentric 

 bands of softer tissue, alternating with harder and darker bands of equal 

 width, in which the white, fine, uniform equidistant and very numerous 

 medullary rays are prominent. 



North-West Himalaya from the Beas eastwards, ascending to 4,500 feet ; Central 

 India. 



Weight, 58 Ibs. per cubic foot. Wood not used. It gives a clear gum called 

 Semla Gum, almost exactly resembling gum arabic ; it is largely collected and ex- 

 ported from the Dehra Dun. Of this gum Capt. Campbell says : 



" The collection of the Semla gum commences in January and is continued through- 

 out February and March. It sells in Dehra at Ee. 1-8, Ks. 2 or Es. 2-8 per maund. 

 according to quality, and is utilised as a medicine and in compound with other medi- 

 cines. Occasionally too it is eaten in its crude state by the very poorest natives down, 

 country. It is also used to waterproof terraced roofs. The annual export from the 

 Dehra Dun is about 2,500 inaunds." 



Ibs. 



O 532. Dehra Dun .......... 58 



C 1160. Ahiri Eeserve, Central Provinces ......... 



17. AFZELIA, Sm. 



Contains 2 trees : A. retusa, Kurz, is a small evergreen tree of the coast forests of 

 the Andamans. The Maraboiv wood of Malacca is probably A. palembanica, Baker. 



1. A.bijuga, A. Gray; Hook. Fl. Ind. ii. 274; Kurz i. 412. Vern. 

 Shoondul, Idnga, Beng. ; Pynkado, Burm. in the Andamans; Pirijdd, 

 Asagunddy And. 



A moderate-sized evergreen tree. Bark thin, grey, peeling off in 

 fine, papery scrolls. Sapwood white, moderately hard, large in young 

 trees, small in old trees; heart wood reddish brown, hard, close-grained > 



