Tecfoua.] 



VERBBNACKJE. 



293 



E 3290-291. 



K 3386-88. 

 W 1216. 



Hoolingamara Block, Sitapahar Plantations, Chittagong, 1873 and 



1875. 



Rampahar Block, Sitapahar Plantation, Chittagong, 1873. 

 North Kanara Plantation, Bombay. 



f Snl.'igori, 18 years old. 

 Specimen' from . < Murdi 12 

 ( Kadra 10 ! 



1217. 



730. 



753. 

 1206. 



North Kanara, Bombay 

 South Kanara, Madras . 



IbR. 



30 

 46 



42 



Parappa Teak Plantation, South Kanaka, Madras. Saplings 

 of 5 and 10 years' growth ...... 



W 2959. Nilambur Plantation, .Malabar. Specimens cut by Mr. 

 Brandis in 1864, Nos. 1, 2 and 4 aged 5, 10 and 20 years, 

 and measuring 16, 19 and 25 inches in girth respectively . 

 W 1203. Nilambur Plantation, Malabar. Series, Nos. 1 to 33, aged 33 

 years to 1 year respectively ...... 



Burma (1862) 



Pe^u . 



Thinganneenoung Plantation, Martaban .... 



Tree 54 feet high, 30 feet to first branch, planted in 1856. 



Tavoy (Wallich, 1828) 



Andaman Islands ........ 



Tree planted at Dhunee Valley, Leaf Creek, Port Blair, in 

 1873. Height 44 feet : girth at 5 feet, 36 inches ; at 21 

 feet, 17 inches ; at 28 feet, 10 inches. 



2551. 



801. 



1385. 



2709. 

 1346. 



44 

 40 

 34 



42 



ibs. 



No. 85. 

 86. 



87. 

 47. 



Ceylon Collection (Ceylon wood) 44 



(Cochin wood) 40 



(Moulmein wood) 44 



Salem Collection .... ,40 



2. T. Hamiltoniana, Wall. ; Kurz ii. 259. Vern. Tanap, Burra. 



A deciduous tree. Wood light brown, hard, close-grained. Pores 

 small. Medullary rays fine, the distance between them equal to the 

 transverse diameter of the pores. Annual rings marked by a continuous 

 line of somewhat larger pores. 



Prome district and Upper Burma. 

 Growth moderate, 9 to 10 rings per inch of radius. 

 A good wood, and likely to be useful. 



B 3126. Prome, Burma .... 



Weight, 64 Ibs. per cubic foot. 



Ibs. 



3. PREMNA, Linn. 



Contains about 20 to 25 species of Indian trees, shrubs or climbers. Besides those 

 here described, most of the species are small shrubs, climbers, or at most small trees, 

 chiefly of South India and Burma. P. barbata, Wall. ; Brandis 367 ; Gamble 61, 

 Vern. Ganhila, Pb. ; Laminar, Hind. ; Michapnok, Lepcha, is a small tree of the 

 North-East Himalaya and Sub-Himalayan tract. P. mburnoides is a small deci- 

 duous tree of the forests of Prome ; and P. sambucina, Wall., an evergreen small tree 

 of Arracan and Tenasserim. P. scandens, Roxb. M. Ind. iii. 82 ; Brandis 367 ; Kurz 

 ii. 263 ; Gamble 61. Vern. Sindri, Nep. ; Monkakrik, Lepcha, is a climbing shrub of 

 Eastern Bengal and Burma; and P. interrupt^ Wall.; Gamble 61, a common 

 climber of the forests of the Sikkim Hills. The latter has a soft, white wood with 

 the structure of a climber; large pores and uniform moderately broad medullary rays, 

 the distance between which is usually equal to the diameter of the pores (E 3395, 

 Darjeeling, 7,000 feet). 



