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sized, in scattered groups and short radial lines. Medullary rays short, 

 fine, uniform, distinctly marked on a radial section. 



Darjeeling Forests, from 2,000 to 7,000 1 (.. 



Growth moderate, 7 rings JKT inch of r;itlius. Weight, 33 Ibs. per cubic foot. 

 The wood is used for building, for charcoal, and occasionally for making tea-boxes. 



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E 690. Sepoydura Forest, Darjeeling, 5,500 feet .... 33 



ORDER LXXIII. CONVOLVULACEJE, 



Contains 7 genera of Indian shrubs or climbers, viz., Erycibe, Rivea, Argy. 

 re la, Lettsomia, Ipomcea, Parana and Ncuropeltix. 



With few except ions such us the erect-growing AV//r/Y,r (flunicrdfa, Wall. ; Kurz ii. 

 213, of Tenasserim, they are all large climbers, often with showy flowers, but of very 

 little lores! ink-rest. Argyreia speciosa, Sweet. ; Brandis 313, is the well-known 

 " Elephant Creeper." 



ORDER LXXIV. SOLANE^B. 



An Order of no special forest interest, though of considerable economic importance 

 producing the potato, capsicum, tomato, tobacco, datura and Cape gooseberry. It 

 contains 2 genera of Indian shrubs or small trees, Lycium and Solanum. Lycinm 

 curopceum, Linn. ; Brandis 345. Vern. Ganger, Jcangu, ckirchitta, niral, Ph., is a 

 thorny shrub of the Punjab, Sind and Guzerat, whose fruit is eaten. It is used as 

 fuel, and the branches are made into wattled frames for the walls of huts. Solanum 

 contains several shrubs, many of them occurring in waste places- The largest is 

 perhaps, 8. verlascifolium, Linn. ; Kurz ii. 225 ; Gamble 58. Vern. Dursul, Nep. ; 

 .S'/ror, Lepcha, a small tree or large shrub of Northern and Eastern Bengal and Burma. 

 It has a grey bark and light yellow soft wood with scanty, moderate-sized, often 

 subdivided pores and numerous short, medullary rays. The annual rings are marked 

 by a line of larger pores. (E 3344. Kalimpuug, Darjeeling, 4,000 feet.) 



ORDER LXXV. SCROPHULAEINE^l. 



Contains only very few genera of woody plants, sucb as Brand-is iu and . 



Srandisia contains two species, one from Bhutan, the other, 13. discolor, Hook. f. and 

 Th. ; Kurz ii. 250, from the hill forests of Martaban at 2,000 to 3,000 feet elevation. 



The Paitlownut, P. impcrialis, Bth., a handsome-flowered tree often cultivated 

 for ornament, belongs to this Order. 



1. WIGIITIA, Wall. 



1. W. gigailtea, Wall. ; Gamble 581. Vern. Lakori, Nep.; Bop y 

 Lcpcha. 



Bark grey, smooth, of unequal thickness, on the outside \ inch thick, 

 much thinner where it touches the stem of the supporting tree. Wood 

 white, moderately soft, porous. Pores large, often subdivided, equally 

 distributed. Medullary rays moderately broad, uniform, not equidistant. 



Hill forests of Sikkim and Bhutan, from 3,000 to 7,000 feet 



A huge epiphytic tree which climbs by sending out hori/ontal. stem -clasping, 

 aerial roots round the stem of the tree on which it grows, often .sin-wing its ma 

 pink flowers above the summit of the latter. 



The wood is used to mako Buddhist idols ; it is light and very soft, but rl--, 



The stem is often 3 to 4 feet in girth. 

 E 3323, Rangivum, Darjeeling, 6,000 feet. 



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