204 LYTHRAJME^:. [ Lagentfomia. 



Major Protheroe ; our specimens give an average of 39 to 40 Ibs. ; Bennett gives 

 41 Ihs. and P = 570. The wood is used largely in the Andamans for building, 

 shingles and other purposes. 



B 510. Andaman Islands 



B2202. (1866) 45 



B2274. 38 



B 2283. 34 



B2496. (Home, 1874, No. 2) . . . 44 



7. L. tomentosa, Presl ; Hook. PI. Ind. ii. 578; Kurz i. 522. 

 Vern. Laiza, Burm. 



A large deciduous tree. Bark inch thick, grey. Wood grey or 

 greyish brown, close-grained, moderately hard. Pores from very small 

 to very large, the latter often subdivided, joined by numerous concentric 

 lines, alternating with broad bands of firmer tissue, in which the fine 

 medullary rays are prominent. 



Burma. Frequent in Pegu and Martaban. 



Weight, according to Brandis' Catalogue, 1862, No. 59 (L. pubescens, Wall.), 53 

 Ibs. ; Braudis' 3 experiments in 1864 with bars 3 ft. X 1 inch X 1 inch gave : Weight 

 38 Ibs. and P = 588. Our specimens give 46 and 53 Ibs. The timber is valued 

 for bows and spear handles, and is also used for canoes and cart-wheels. 



Ibs. 



B 572. Prome i 46 



B 2533. Burma (1862) ..... .53 



4. DUABANGA, Ham. 



1. D. sonneratioides, Buch. ; Kurz i. 525 ; Gamble 42. Lager- 

 stromia grandiflora, Roxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 503. Vern. Bandorhulla, Beng. ; 

 Lampalia, Nep. ; Dur y Lepcha ; Kochan, kokan, Ass. ; Jarul-jhalna, 

 Cachar ; Bondorkella, bolchim, Garo; Baichua, Magh ; Myoukgnau, Burm. 



A lofty deciduous tree, with light-brown bark, peeling off in thin 

 flakes. Wood grey, often streaked with yellow, soft, seasons well, neither 

 warps nor splits. Pores large and moderate-sized, often oval and sub- 

 divided, uniformly distributed. Medullary rays fine, very numerous, 

 wavy. Pores well marked on a longitudinal section. 



Eastern Bengal ascending to 3,000 foot, Assam and Burma. 



Growth fast, 5 rings per inch of radius. Weight, according to Brandis' Burma 

 List of 1862, No. 64, 30 Ibs. per cubic foot; our specimens give an average of 32 Ibs. 

 The wood does not warp or split, and canoes cut out of it green are at once used, even 

 when liable alternately to wet and the heat of the sun. Is used in Northern Bengal 

 and Assam very extensively for tea-boxes, for which purpose it is admirably fitted. It 

 is also made into canoes and cattle troughs. The seeds are extremely small and the 

 seedlings very minute at first, but the growth is very fast. Seedlings at the Bamun- 

 pokri rlantation in Bengal, which had come up on the sites of old charcoal kilns (stv 

 " Indian Forester," Vol. iv. page 345), attained a height of 10 feet in two years, with 

 proportionate girth and fine spreading branches. 



E 652. Rakti Forest, Darjeeling Terai 32 



E 2380. Sukna Forest, Darjeeling Terai 



E 950. Eastern Duars, Assam 



E 1230. Sibsngar, Assam 36 



E 1430. AHsam ... 



E 1285. Cachar ... . 32 



E 1499. Sylhet . .... 



E 713. Chittagong 



Ii Su7. IViru . . . 30 



B Hl'3. Amlumans (Kur/. 180(5) (youipj tree) 



