164- ROSACEJE. [PrUttUS. 



mens gave 13 rings. Average weight 41 Ibs. per cubic foot, Mathieu Fl. For. p. 128, 

 gives an average of 41 '5 Ibs. The wood has often a very handsome grain and deserves 

 to be better kuown ; it is scarcely ever used. 



Ibs. 



H 916. Hazara, 7,000 feet . 38 



H 22. Matiyana, Simla, 7,000 feet .... .42 



II 58, Nagkanda, Simla, 8,000 feet . 



E 696. Eangbul Forest, Darjeeling, 7,000 feet 



43 

 41 



42 



E 2369. 



The two Darjeeling specimens are perhaps P. nepalensis, Ser. Hook. Fl. Ind. 

 316. 



5. P. acuminata, Wall.; Hook. Fl. Ind. ii. 317; Gamble 35 

 (wrongly Roxb.). 



A tree with thin dark bark. Wood reddish brown. Pores small, 

 sometimes in groups or radial lines; medullary rays of two classes; 

 numerous, very fine rays, alternating with fewer, short, broad ones. 



Eastern Himalaya and Khasia Hills from 4,000 to 7,000 ft. 

 E 3309. Sureil, Darjeeling, 6,000 feet. 



6. P. martabanica, Wall.; Hook. Fl. Ind. ii. 316; Kurz i. 434. 

 Vern. Tkitmanku,'R\nm. 



No. B 1975, collected by Kurz in the Andamans in 1866, bears this 

 name. It is a heavy, cross-grained, red wood, with moderate-sized pores, 

 often subdivided, and fine, closely packed, uniform medullary rays. 



2. PYGEUM, Gaertn. 



No. 28, Adrian Mendis' Ceylon Collection, marked Cryptocarya floribunda, and 

 Galmorre, Cingh., is a close-grained yellow wood with a structure resembling that of 

 Eriobotrya. It is probably Pygeum zeylanicum, Gaertn. ; Hook. Fl. Ind. ii. 321 ; 

 Thwaites Enum. Fl. Zeyl. 102. Vern. Galmora, Cingh. (Weight 65 Ibs. per cubic 

 foot.) A large tree of South India and Ceylon, which gives a good firewood for burning 

 bricks or lime. There are 8 other species of this genus. P. acuminatum, Colebr. ; Hook. 

 Fl. Ind. ii. 318 ; Kurz i. 435 ; Gamble 35, is a tree of the North-East Himalaya, Khasia 

 Hills, Eastern Bengal and Chittagong, in which regions are also found P. glaberrimum, 

 Hook. f. ; and P. montanum, Hook. f. P. Andersoni, Hook, f., has been found on the 

 summit of Parasnath in Behar at 4,000 ft. ; P. Wightianum, Bl. (P. ceylanicum, 

 Beddome t. 59) and P. Gardneri, Hook, f ., are large trees of South India ; while 

 P. arboreum, Endl., and two other species are found in the forests of Burma, chiefly 

 in Tenasserim. 



3. PRINSEPIA, Royle. 



1. P. utilis, Royle; Hook. Fl. Ind. ii. 323; Brandis 196. Vern. 

 Bhekalj bekkra, karanga, cherara, dhatela, jhatela. Hind. ; Gurinda, 

 Hazara ; Tatua, phulwara, Rajaori ; J'inti, Cbenab ; Bekling, Kanawar. 



A deciduous, thorny shrub, with thin brown bark, peeling off in small 

 vertical flakes. Sapwood white ; heartwood red, very hard and compact, 

 close and even grained, but much liable to split. Annual rings marked 

 by a narrow continuous belt or line of larger pores ; the pores outside 

 this belt are small. The pores are sometimes filled with a white sub- 

 stance. Medullary rays very fine and numerous. 



Outer Himalaya, from Hazara to Bhutan between 2,000 and 9,000 feet. Khasia 

 Hills. 



Growth slow, 12 rings per inch of radius. Weight, 69 Ibs. per cubic foot. The 



