ISO niMBUETACI [ Ttfini mif'm . 



in the harder and darker portions between the bands, and on the radial 

 section. 



This wood distantly resembles in structure that of Ougeinia dalbergi- 

 oides, but the bands of soft tissue are more continuous, and the medul- 

 lary rays are less prominent. 



Sub-Himalayan tract from near the Indus eastwards, forests of India and Burma. 



Growth moderate to rapid, 3 to 7 rings per inch of radius. Weight, according to 

 Kyd's Assam experiments, 43 Ibs. per cubic foot ; Central Provinces List, 39 Ibs. ; Brandis' 

 Burma List, 1862, No. 47, 40 Ibs. ; the average of our specimens gives 48 Ibs. Kyd gives 

 P = 378. The wood is used for planking, packing cases, canoes, and in the North- 

 Western Provinces for house-building after steeping in water which has the effect of 

 making it more durable. In the Central Provinces it is used for plough shafts and 

 carts when bijasal is not available. In South India it is used for packing-cases, coffee- 

 boxes, catamarans, and grain measures. The fruit is one of the myrabolans. and is 

 exported to Europe to be used in dyeing cloth and leather and in tanning. Native ink 

 is made of it, and it is used in medicine as a purgative and for other purposes. The 

 kernels of the fruit are eaten, but are said to produce intoxication if eaten in excess 

 (Hunter's Statistical Account of Bengal, xvi. p. 51), and an oil is obtained from them 

 which is used for the hair. The fruit is eaten by monkeys, deer, goats, sheep, and 

 cattle. The tree gives a copious gum, which does not seem to be of much use. The 

 leaves according to the Indore Forest Keport of 1876-77 have been used as an antiseptic 

 to impregnate sleepers of Said (see under Boswellia thurifera, p. 66), which are said, 

 after soaking for five months in a tank filled with Bahera leaves and water, to have 

 been rendered durable. 



-Iba. 



P 1190. Madhopiir, Punjab 35 



O 534. Dehra Dun 58 



2995. Garhwal (1874) 59 



O 349. Gorakhpur (1868) 52 



C 176. Mandla, Central Provinces (1870) 



C 1125. .Ahiri Reserve, Central Provinces ...... 42 



C 2737. Moharli Reserve, Central Provinces 44 



C 2773. Melghat, Berar 



E 663- BamuT.pokri, Darjeeling Terai .... 



W 1188. South Kanara 



B 2532. Burma (1862) 



No. 53. Salem Collection (marked Wrightia antidysenterica) 



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 44 



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2. T. Chebllla, Retzius; Hook. Fl. Ind. ii. 446; Roxb. PL Ind. ii. 

 433; Beddome t. 27; Brandis 223 ; Kurz i. 456 ; Gamble 39. Vern. 

 Harra, har, harara, Hind.; Hilikha, Ass.; Haritdki, Beng. ; Si Jim, 

 Lepcha; Karedha, Uriya; ffalra, harla, Dekkan ; Karka, hir, h<irro, 

 mahoka, Gondi ; Kadakai, Tarn. ; Karaka, kadnkar, Tel. ; Heerda, Kan., 

 Mar. ; Alale, Mysore; Kajo, Magh ; Pangah, Burm. ; Aalu, Cingh. 



A large deciduous tree. Bark inch thick, dark brown, with numerous 

 generally shallow vertical cracks. Wood very hard, brownish grey, with 

 a greenish or yellowish tinge, fairly smo.oth and close-grained, fairly dur- 

 able, seasons well. No regular heartwood, but frequently irregular masses 

 of dark purple wood near the centre. Annual rings indistinct. Pores 

 small and modtrate-sized, uniformly distributed, often subdivided ; each 

 pore or group of pores surrounded by a narrow ring of soft tissue. 

 Medullary rays very fine, uniform, equidistant, very numerous, distinctly 

 visible on a radial section. The structure of the wood differs from that 

 of T. tomentosa t chiefly by smaller pores. 



Sub-Himalatan tract from the Sutlej eastwards, ascending to 6,000 feet ; Bengal. 

 Assam, Chittagong, Central and South India. 



