Xylia. ] 



LEGUMINOSJl. 



149 



very fine and very numerous medullary v rays are distinctly visible. 

 Some of the specimens of this wood have an oily touch. 



Chanda District, South India, Arracan and Burma. 



The weight and transverse strength have been determined hy the following experi- 

 ments : 



The wood is very durahle a property it doubtless owes in great measure to the 

 resinous substance contained in it. This resin is more abundant in Burmese wood 

 than in wood grown in South India. No. B 1451, which was brought by Dr. Wallich 

 from Tavoy in 1828, is still so full of resin that it is quite sticky on the outside, and 

 the resin may be scraped off with a knife. This substance is partially soluble in hot 

 water, to which it imparts a reddish colour. 



The wood is used for boat-building and for agricultural implements in Burma ; 

 also for carts and tool handles. In South India it is used for railway sleepers, posts, 

 boat-building and carts. In Burma and Bengal it has been largely used for 

 telegraph posts, for which it has answered well. The large forests in Arracan, 

 of which Dr. Schlich in his report on the ironwood forests of Arracan, dated 1st 

 September 1869, says that " a third of the forest vegetation consists of 

 Pynkado," produce large numbers of telegraph poles and railway sleepers. Major 

 Scat on in his report for 1876-77 said that 10,000 such sleepers from Arracan had 

 then lately been sold at Calcutta at Us. 5 each, and Mr. Ribbentrop's Report states 

 that Pynkado pieces and sleepers are brought out from the forests in Pegu. It is 

 likely, however, to be found too hard, heavy and difficult to cut. It is useful wood for 

 piles and beams of bridges. It exudes a red resin, and the seeds give an oil. 



1151. 

 W 754. 

 W 701. 

 W 857. 

 W 1222. 

 B 805. 

 B 3066. 

 B 1451. 



Ahiri Reserve, Central Provinces 

 South Kanara 



North Kanara 

 Tharrawaddi, Burma 

 Burma (1862) 

 Tavoy (Wallich, 1828) 



Ibs. 

 59 

 59 

 61 

 61 

 62 

 67 

 66 

 62 



28. ACACIA, Willd. 



Contains about 18 Indian species, of which four are climbing or straggling thorny 

 shrubs, and the rest trees or erect shrubs. A. Latronum, Willd. ; Hook. Fl. Ind. 

 ii ; -JIM) ; Bi'ddoim> xcv. ; Brandis 180. (Mimosa Latronum, Roxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 559) 

 Yeru. Jibes, Hind. ; Paki-tv.ma, Tel., is a gregarious, very thorny shrub of the 



