I.OGANIAI 269 



Bengal, Central and South India. 



Weight, 57 Ibs. per cubic Coot. Wood durable, used for building, carts and 

 agricultural implements. The pulp of the fruit is eaten, and the ripe seeds are used 

 to clear muddy water by merely rubbing the inside of the jar with the seed. 



Ibs. 

 C 1101. Ahiri Reserve, Central Provinces ..... 55 



C 2979. Bijeragogarh, Central Provinces 



D 1060. South Arcot 61 



No. 44. Salein Collection 56 



2. S. NllX-VOmica, Linn.; Roxb. Fl. Ind. i. 575; Beddome fc. 243; 

 Brandis 3J.7 ; Kurz ii. 166. The Snake Wood, Nux-vomica or Strychnine 

 Tree. Vern. Kuchli, kajra, Hind. ; Kuchila, Beng. ; Kerra, korra, Uriya 

 Yetti, Tarn. ; Hushti, musadi, Tel. ; Kasaraka y kujarra, khasca, kasara- 

 gadde, Kan. ; Kara, jhar katcliura, Mar. ; Kanjaram, Travancore ; Goda 

 fadvru,CMgh t ; Khaboung, Burm. 



A moderate-sized evergreen tree, with dark grey bark. Wood brown- 

 ish grey, hard, close-grained, splits and warps. Pores of two classes : 

 very large pores (intercellular ducts) scanty, filled with a white substance, 

 very prominent on a vertical section, where they are often branching ; and 

 small pores in irregularly shaped, ramified patches, which are joined by 

 concentric and oblique white lines. Medullary rays fine and moderately 

 broad, prominent in the firm, shining, hard tissue intervening between 

 the patches above described. 



Bengal, Burma and South India. 



Weight, according to Skinner, No. 119, 56 Ibs. (P = 1160) ; Brandis' experiments 

 (3) made in 1864 with Burma wood in bars 3 ft. X 1 inch X 1 inch gave weight 49 Ibs. ; 

 P = 623 ; his list of Burma woods of 1862, No. 75, gave 52 Ibs. ; our specimens give 

 an average of 57 Ibs. The wood is used in Burma for carts, agricultural implements, 

 and fancy cabinet-work. The seeds contain 0'28 to 0'53 per cent, of strychnia mixed 

 with brucia, poisonous alkaloids. The pulp of the fruit is eaten by birds. 



Ibs. 



W 1224. North Kanara 65 



W 727. South ,,.... 59 



B 3072, Burma (1862) 49 



ORDER LXXII. BORAGINE.E. 



Contains 4 genera belonging to 3 tribes, viz., 



Tribe I. Cordieso Cordia. 



II. Ehretieae Ehretia and Rhabdia. 



III. Heliotropiese ..... Tournefurtia. 



Rhabdia viminea, Dalzell; Brandis 341, 577; Kurz ii. 211, is a small shrub of 

 sandy and shingly river beds in Kumaun, Bengal, South India and Burma. 



Tournefortia viridiflora, Wall. ; Gamble 57. Vern. Ampati, Nep. ; Tungrong, 

 Lepcha, is a climbing shrub of the North-East Himalaya, with soft brown wood having 

 11 it- anual rings marked by darker lines, and large pores (E 3299, Chunbati, Darjeeling, 

 3,000 feet). The Heliotrope, Heliotropiutn peruviamim, Linn., in some places in the 

 hills and especially on the ISilgiris, reaches to the size of a shrub, and may be used for 

 hedges. 



Pores small or moderate-sized, the transverse diameter generally less 

 than the distance between the rays, which are uniform and equidistant, 

 generally short, either fine or moderately broad. Cordia has concentric 

 bands of soft texture which arc wanting in Ehrelia. 



