296 



VEBBENACEJE. 



[Gut din a. 



of 14 inches or nearly 4 rings per inch. The weight and transverse strength have been 

 determined by the following experiments : 



The wood is easily worked and readily takes paint or varnish ; it is very durable 

 under water. It is highly esteemed for planking, furniture, door panels, carriages 

 and palanquins, well-work, boats, toys, packing cases and all ornamental work ; it 

 is used in Burma for carving images, clogs and canoes. Tt would probably be a 

 valuable wood for tea-boxes. It is the chief furniture wood of Chittagong and is 

 in some demand in Calcutta. Writing in May 1829, in ' Gleanings in Science,' Captain 

 Baker, the Superintendent of Suspension Chain Bridges, spoke of Gumbhar wood as 

 " well calculated for light planking, panelling, blinds and Venetians, and of much esti- 

 mation for picture frames, organ pipes, sounding boards and other such work where 

 shrinkage is to be avoided," so that it has evidently been long known in the Calcutta 

 market. The fruit is eaten by Gonds, and, as well as the bark and root, is used in 

 native medicine. It is now being planted at Sitapahar and Jamguri in Bengal, and, 

 if not eaten down by deer who are very fond of it, it grows very fast. Seedlings in 

 the Jamguri Nursery, Buxa Reserve, in 1879 reached a height of nearly 4 feet in 6 

 months. 



O 325. Garhwal (1868) . 



O 343. Gorakhpur (1868) . 



O 1372. Gonda, Oudh 



O 1457. Bahraich, Oudh . 



O 1483. Kheri, Oudh .... 



C 182. Mandla, Central Provinces (1870) 



C 1129. Ahiri Reserve, Central Provinces 



C 835. Bairagarh Keserve, Berar 



C 2775. Mel ghat, Berar 



C 959. Guzerat, Bombay . 



E 676. Bamunpokri, Darjeeling Terai 



E 2396. Sivoke Forest, 



E 948. Eastern Duars, Assam . 



E 2193. Nowgong, Assam . 



E 2303. Kami-dp, 



E 1435. Assam 



E 1390. Chittagong .... 



B 295. Burma (1867) 



B 1425. Tharrawaddy, Burma . 



Ibs. 

 33 

 32 

 40 

 38 

 39 

 35 



45 

 38 

 34 

 41 

 35 

 36 

 39 

 37 

 31 

 33 

 28 

 35 



5. VITEX, Linn. 



Contains 10 to 12 species of Indian trees. V. trifolia, Linn. ; Roxb. Fl. I ml. iii. 

 69; Beddome clxxii. ; Brandis 370; (lamMc 61 (V. A</>ins-cax( n*\ Linn.; Kur/ii. 

 269) Vern. Nishinda, Hind.; Pqjpati, Nrp. ; ^Y/V-ww///', Turn. ; 1'nri/i, r lYl. ; h'nnt- 

 nuchi, Kan., is a small tree or shrub of Bi-ngal, South India and liunna. /'. //rA ><>- 

 phylla, Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 75 ; Kury. ii. !>7<> ; (Jainhlr (51. \Yrn. .\ '< //. NVp. ; Murkut, 

 Lepclia, is a large tr66 of Northern Mid Mastrrn Drnpil and IJurma. / ". c,///r.vf ( //.v, 

 and l r . /unniiifu/iit, Kury. ii. 270,271, aiv diriduons t nv.s of t he ton sis of I'rouio. 

 V. Wiiuba 'A///, Kurz ii. 271, is a Mnall rvrr-iven tree of the Andaman Islands. 



