Strellus.] URTICACEJ3. 327 





PI). ; Siora, karckanua, rum, Hind. ; Sheora, Beng. ; Sakada, 

 Uriya; Baranki, barinka, pnkki, Tel.; Karera, kharaoli, Mar.; Karasni, 

 Gondi ; Milli, Kan.; Unffitai, Magh ; Qpnai, Burm. ; Gattao nitltil, 

 Cingh. 



A small evergreen tree. Bark J inch thick, soft, light grey, irregu- 

 larly ribbed. Wood white, moderately hard, no heartwood, no annual 

 rings. Pores small, in irregular concentric belts of soft tissue which 

 contain the greater number of the pores and alternate with broader belts 

 of firm tissue, in which a few pores are scattered. Medullary rays fine, 

 numerous, equidistant. 



Sub-Himalayan tract from the Beas eastwards, Bengal, Central and South India, 

 Burma and the Andaman Islands. 



Weight, Skinner, No. 66 (Epicarpurus orientalis), 45 Ibs. ; Kyd 42 to 75 Ibs. ; our 

 specimens give 39 to 40 Ibs. Kyd gives P = 570 ; Skinner P = 604. Tbe wood is tough 

 and elastic. In South India it is sometimes used for cart-wheels. It is good for hedges, 

 coppices well, and has been recommended for fuel. The twigs are used as tooth-brushes, 

 and the rough leaves to polish wood and ivory. The milky juice is used medicinally. 



Ibs. 

 O 1478. Gonda, Oudh ......... 40 



C 1165. Ahiri Reserve, Central Provinces ...... 39 



6. PLECOSPERMUM, Trecul. 



1. P, spinosum, Trecul ; Beddome ccxx. ; Brandis 401. Bails spinosa, 

 Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 762. Vern. Mainakat-lara, maidal-larti, Nep. ; 

 Gumbengfong, Meclii (?) ; Koriti, Tel. 



A large thorny shrub. Bark thin, orange-coloured, peeling off in 

 thin brittle flakes. Wood greyish white, with a small bright orange- 

 yellow heartwood, which is very hard. Pores from small to large, joined 

 by wavy, more or less concentric, bands or lines of soft and often inter- 

 rupted tissue, which alternate with shining bauds of firmer texture of 

 about the same width. In the heartwood the pores are filled with a 

 yellow resinous substance. Medullary rays fine and very fine, wavy. 



Salt Range (rare on mountains at 3,000 feet), Rohilkhand, Nepal, Sikkirn, South 

 India and Ceylon. 



Growth slow, 12 rings per inch of radius. Weight, 50 Ibs. per cubic foot. Tbe 

 wood is used in the Darjeeling Terai to give a yellow dye. 



Iba. 

 O 3134. Dehra Dun .......... 56 



E 487. Khookloong Forest, Darjeeling Terai ..... 45 



E 2308. Darjeeliug Terai ......... 52 



' E 2448. Tukdah Forest, Darjeeling, 5,000 feet ..... 47 



7. MORUS, Linn. 



Contains 6 species which are all referred to one,M. alba, by Bureau in DC. Prodr., 

 Vol. xvii. 



M. alba, Linn. ; Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 594 ; Brandis 407. Vern. Tut, tul, tulklu, 

 chinni, chun, Hind., is the Mulberry, cultivated in Afghanistan and the plains and hills 

 of the Punjab. The wood is good and is used for building, boats, furniture and 

 agricultural implements. It weighs 38 to 56 Ibs. Its chief use is, however, for feed- 

 ing the silkworm, especially in Kashmir, with its leaves ; and for its fruit for which it 

 is largely grown and which is eaten either fresh or dried. M. loevigata, Wall, ; 

 Brandis 409. Knrz ii. 467. Vern. Tut, Hind. ; Malaing, Burm., is a tree, wild and 

 cultivated in the Himalaya from the Indus to Assam up to 4,000 feet, in Bengal and 



