Ar< Una. ] MYIISIM 211 



Eastern Himalaya, from 4,000 to 8,000 feet. Martaban at similar elevations. 

 Has pretty wax-like flowers and bright red berries, which ripen in winter. Very 

 coinmom undergrowth in the hill forests. 



E 3315. Pugraingbong, Darjeeling, 6,000 feet. 



5. ^EGICERAS, Gaertn. 



1. -ZE. COrniculata, Blanco; Kurz ii. 114. -J?. majus, Gaertn. ; 

 Beddome cxxxix. ; lloxb. Fl. Iiid. iii. 130. Vern. Uahi, khalshi, Beng. ; 

 Boot a yet, Burm. 



A small evergreen tree. Bark grey, i inch thick. Wood hard, close- 

 grained. No annual rings. Pores small, uniformly distributed. Medul- 

 lary rays short, scanty, between moderately broad and broad. 



Coast forests and tidal creeks of the Western Coast, Bengal, Burma and the 

 Andaman Islands. 



Weight, 40 Ibs. per cubic foot. Wood used for firewood and for native huts 

 in Jessore. 



Ibs. 



E 406. Sundarbans 40 



5. REPTONIA, A. DC. 



1. R. buxifolia, A. DC. -, Brandis 287. Vern. Garar, Afg. ; 

 Guryura, Punjab. 



A large evergreen shrub or small tree. Bark thin, dark grey, 

 tesselated by deep longitudinal and transverse cracks. Wood light brown, 

 with irregular purplish-brown heartwood, very hard, heavy, close and even- 

 grained. Annual rings indistinct. Pores very small, arranged in wavy, 

 radial, branching and anastomosing narrow white belts, of varying 

 width, joined by fine, wavy, concentric lines which divide the firmer 

 and darker tissue into irregularly-shaped figures, in which the white, 

 fine, numerous and regularly distributed medullary rays are distinctly 

 visible. 



Salt Range and hills Trans-Indus. 



Weight, 71 Ibs. per cubic foot. Wood worthy of attention. The fruit is eaten, 

 and the seeds are strung in rosaries. 



Ibs 



P 169. Kohat : 71 



P 912. Salt Eange 



ORDER LXIV. SAPQTACEJE. 



Contains 9 genera of trees, sometimes of very large size, and chiefly found in the 

 moist zones. These genera are ChrysopJiyllum, Sarcosperma, Sideroxylou, Achras, 

 Isonandra, .Dichopsis, JSassia, Payena and Mimusops. 



Sideroxylon contains 4 species, the chief of which are 8. tomentosum, RoxK, Fl. 

 Ind. i. 602 ; Kurz ii. 116 (Achras tomentosa, Beddome cxlii.). Vern. HoodiyoUa, Kan. ; 

 Tliitcho, Burm., an evergreen tree of Western Mysore and the Prome district in Burma ; 

 anl #. clenriioides, Bth. and Hook. f. (Achras elengioides, DC.; Beddome t. :'.>/>) 

 Vern. Paid, Tarn. ; Holay, Burghers, a common tree of the Western Ghats, whose 

 wood is said by Beddome to be dull red, straight-grained, dense, and to be used for 

 house beams and carpenters' planes; and whose fruit is made into pickles and curries. 



Arhras Sctpota, Linn.; Roxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 181; Beddome cxlii.; Brandis L'^. 

 Kur/ ii. 118. The Sapota, Sapodilla, Bully Tree or Neesberry. Vern. Simi, clupai, 

 Tain. ; Simcf, ippa, Tel. ; Twottapat t Burm., is a tree of American origin, which is grown 



