Baccaurea. ] EUPHORBIACE^. 355 



Bengal, Assam, Burma, and Andaman Islands. 



Weight, according to Brandis' Burma List of 1862, No. 97, Cl Ibs. ; Wallich, 

 No. 154, 38 Ibs. ; our specimens average 42 Ibs. The wood is not used. The fruit is 

 much eaten, it is acid and pleasant, and is called ' Lutqua.' The leaves are used in 

 Northern Bengal and Assam for dyeing. 



Ibs. 

 B 1265. Tezpur, Assam . . .42 



B 2552. Burma (1862) 



B 3145. i Magayee, Burma 



B 3146. $ 



B 2686. Tavoy (Wallich, 1828) 



44 

 42 

 43 



41 



B 2720. .41 



7. APOROSA, Bl. 



Contains eight species. A. villosa, Baill. ; Kurz ii. 361. Vern. Ye-mein, Burm., is 

 a tree of Burma whose bark is used for dyeing red, and which gives a red resin. A. 

 macrophylla, Mull. Arg. ; Kurzii. 361. Vern. In-jin, Burm., A. villosula, Kurz ii. 362. 

 Vern. Thitsap, Burm., and A. microstachya, Mull. Arg. ; Kurz ii. 363, are evergreen 

 trees of Burma. A. oblonya, Miill. Arg. and A. lanceolata, Tlnv. ; Beddoine cxcix. ; 

 Kurz ii. 363, are trees of Tenasserim. A. Lindleyana, Wight ; Beddome t. 286 ; 

 Gamble 69. Vern. Sulla, surroli, Kan. ; Kagbhalai, Npp , is a tree of Sikkim and 

 the Western Ghats with a good timber. A. dioica, Miill. Arg. ; Gamble 69 (A. Rox- 

 burghii, Baill. ; Kurz ii. 362. Alnus dioica, Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 580. Lepidostachys 

 Roxburcfhii, Wall.) Vern. KoJcra, Beng. ; Sctnpalu, Garo ; Tauprengjan, Magh, is a 

 tree of Northern and Eastern Bengal and Burma. 



This last has been identified with the tree producing the ' Coco-wood ' of com- 

 merce, generally supposed to come from the West Indies. 



No. 2925 is the Coco-wood. It has a dark-brown, very hard, close-grained wood, 

 with white sapwood, and resembles that of Homonoya (see page 364) in structure. It 

 weighs 79 Ibs. per cubic foot. 



The wood of Aporosa dioica should be carefully examined to prove that the 

 Indian tree gives a timber similar to Coco-wood. 



8. BISCHOFFIA, Bl. 



1. B. javanica, Bl. ; Beddome t. 259 ; Brandis 446; Kurz ii. 355; 

 Gamble 69. Andrachne trifoliate, Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 728. Vern. 

 Kein, Jcorsa, irum, Hind.; Kaiwjal, Nep. ; Sinong, Lepcha; Taisoh, 

 ttr&yMechi; UriantjAss.} Bolzuru, Garo ; Joki, Cachar; Bolce, Bom- 

 bay; Thondiy Tarn. ; Gorarnellu y Hassan; Modagerri vembu, Tinnevelly. 



A deciduous tree. Bark rough, dark grey with a brown tinge, ex- 

 foliating in angular scales. Wood red, rough, moderately hard, with a 

 small darker-coloured heartwood. Pores moderate-sized, in short radial 

 lines. Medullary rays moderately broad and very fiue, the distance 

 between the broad rays being from one to three limes the transverse 

 diameter of the pores. 



Kumaun, Garhwal, Oudh, Gorakhpnr, Bengal, South India and Burma. 



Growth fast, some of our specimens shewed 4 rings per inch of radius. Weight, 

 the average of our specimens gave, heartwood 47'5 Ibs., sapwood 36 Ibs. per cubic foot. 

 Kyd gives : Weight 43 Ibs., P = 617. Kurz evidently identifies with this, No. 99 of 

 Brandis' list of 1862. Vern. Yagine, Burm. Weight 35 Ibs. In Assam it is esteemed 

 one of the best timbers and used for bridges and other works of construction. Beddome 

 says it is used by planters in the Nilgiris for building, and is sometimes called ' Ked 

 Cedar.' 



