198 MYRTACE^I. [ Careya. 



Wood durable ; the specimens brought by Dr. Wallich from Tavoy in 1828, and that 

 brought from the Mishmi Hills by Dr. Griffith in 1836, were quite sound on being cut 

 up, though they had been stored for 50 years in Calcutta. The wood is little used 

 except for agricultural implements. It is being tried for railway sleepers on the 

 Eastern Bengal and Northern Bengal State Railways, but the result of the experi- 

 ment is not yet known. Kurz says it is used in Burma for gun-stocks, house-posts, 

 planking, carts, furniture and cabinet-work. It stands well under water. Fuzes made 

 from its bark are used to make slow matches. Its bark gives a good fibre for coarse, 

 strong cordage, and is used in native medicine as an astringent. 



7. PLANCHONIA, Bl. 



1. P. littoralis, Van Houtte; Hook. Fl. Ind. ii. 511. P. valida, 

 Blume; Kurz i. 500. Vern. Bambway nee, Burm.; Baila da, And. 



An evergreen tree. Wood reddish brown, with yellow specks, very 

 hard, close-grained. Pores moderate-sized and large, often subdivided, 

 in rounded and elongated patches, which are sometimes joined by narrow, 

 undulating bands of softer tissue. Medullary rays very fine, numerous, 

 bending. The pores are frequently filled by a yellow substance, and are 

 prominent on a vertical section. 



Evergreen coast forests of the Andaman Islands. 



Weight, our specimens give 61 to 64 Ibs. per cubic foot ; Bennett gives 56 Ibs. and 

 P = 600. A valuable wood, which should be better known ; it seasons well and takes 



a fine polish. , 



ibs. 



B 514. Andaman Islands 64 



B 2495. (Home, 1874, No. 7, Youaygyee) . . 61 



ORDER XLVII. MELASTOMACE^J. 



An Order containing 13 Indian Genera of shrubs or small trees. They are chiefly 

 found in South India or Teiiasseriin. They belong to 5 Tribes, viz., 



Tribe I. Osbeckiese Osbeckia, Otanthera and Mela- 



stotna. 



II. Oxysporese Oxyspora, Kendrickia, Allomor- 



phia, Blastus, Ocktkockurit voA 

 Anerincleist it .v. 



M III. Medinillese Anplectrum, Medinilla. 



IV. AstroniesB PteriniHt/nt. 



V. Memeeylece Memecylon. 



Oryspora paniculata, DC.; Hook. Fl. Lul. ii. 525; (JamMc 41 is a lav-v hand- 

 some shrub of tlu- Eastern Himalaya and Kliasiu Hills. Mtmtcylon contains about 



