]/8 ism/oiMioRi [ Cafu II i-j. 



Eastern and Western moist zones, Eastern Himalaya. Bengal, Burma, South 

 India and the Andamans. 



Weight, according to Benson and Skinner, No. 37, 44 Ibs ; A. Mendis, 42 Ibs. ; 

 Brandis' Burma List, 1862, No. 106, 60 Ibs. ; our specimens give an average of 4711s. 

 Benson's experiments with bars 3 feet X 1'4 inch X 1*4 inch, gave P = 797 ; Skinner 

 gives P = 656. 



Wood used in South Kanara for furniture and cabinet-making and in Burma for 

 11 anldng, furniture and rice-pounders, 



W 743. South Kanara 42 



B 308. Burma (1867) 47 



B 816. Burma 51 



B 2530. Burma (1862) 47 



B 2210. Andaman Islands (1866) 47 



B 1500. Burma ... 



No. 19. Ceylon Collection (marked C. zeylanica) . . . .42 



2. No. 90. Adrian Mendis, Ceylon Collection, weight 51 Ibs. P = 464. 

 Vern. Ukbeiriye, Cingh., is probably C. calycina, Bth.; Thwaites Eimm. 

 121; Hook. El. Ind. ii. 4*39. The wood is brick-red; in structure it 

 resembles that of C. integerrima, but the pores are fewer, and the broad 

 rays are narrower and at regular distances. 



6. ANISOPHYLLEA, Br. 



1. A. zeylanica, Bib.; Hook. PI. Ind. ii. 442; Thw. Enum. 119; 

 Beddome t. 195. Tetracrypta cinnamomoides, Gard. and Ch. Vern. 

 Wellipiyannc, Cingh. 



A tree. Wood greyish brown, moderately hard. Pores moderate- 

 sized and large, filled with a white substance, prominent on a vertical 

 section as white streaks. Medullary rays of two classes, numerous 

 but indistinct, fine, between fewer moderately broad rays. Bars of 

 soft texture and the same width as the rays crossing these and dividing 

 the wood into numerous rectangular unequal figures. 



Ibs. 

 No. 96. Ceylon Collection 35 



ORDER XLV. COMBRETACEJE. 



An Order containing 8 Indian Genera of trees, shrubs or climbers, containing sonic 

 of the most important of the timber trees of the Indian forests. It is divided into 

 2 Tribes : 



Tribe I. Combretea* ..... TermitiaUa, Calycopteris, Ano- 



ffeissus, Lumnitzera, Com- 

 bretum and QpitgiuUii, 

 II. Gyrocarpeae ..... Illigera and G-yrocarpus. 



Four of these genera arc here described, most of the remaimler contain 

 shrubs. Lumnitzera contains two small evergreen trees. L. rcei)u>titt, Willd. ; Hook. 

 Fl. Ind. ii. 452; IVddomo ciii.; Brandis J1 ; Kur/ i. hi.s 



Koxb. I'M. Ind. ii. tt72) Vcrn. Xripa, J\irj>n. l i n^. ; /hdrt yti, Cin;h. ; YC,KIU<', IJunn.. 

 , (,('! he muddy creeks and tidal fon-sls of the Sundarliaiis, .Malaliar. Arracaii, 

 : and the Andamans, also found by IJcddoinc at Ualasore. It has a strong an<l 

 durable wood used for house-posts, and in Calcutta for fuel iKoxbur^h). L. coc< 



