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Indigenous and cultivated in China and Japan. Introduoed and cultivated 

 throughout Northern India. 



Growth rathef fast, Brings per inch of radius (our specimen). Weight, 32 Ibs. 

 per cubic foot. The white pulp round the seeds gives the Chinese tallow, which i.- 

 separated hy boiling in water. It is used in China and .Japan for candles. Jloxlmrgh 

 savs it is bad for burning, that it only remains linn at a cool temperature, and that it 

 easily becomes rancid. It melts at 104. The seeds give an oil, and the leaves a black 

 dye. It is a handsome tree, somewhat like Sissii in foliage, and often planted for 

 ornament. 



DM. 



O 3114. Dehra Dun ......... 32 



2. E. baccata, Mull. Arg. ; Brandis 441 ; Gamble 72. 

 baccatum, Kurz ii. 412. Sapium baccatum, Iloxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 694*. 

 Vern. Pudlikat, lal kainjal, Nep.; Adamsali, Ass.; Eilla, Sylhet ; 

 Linhlun, Burm. 



To this species probably belongs E 1962 from Chittagong, a soft, 

 grey wood, in structure resembling that of E. indica ; as well as E 3o 1-0 

 from Assam, called there Tar sing, Nep. ; Selling, Chota Nagpur coolies ; 

 Larrna, Assamese. 



A large evergreen tree of Northern and Eastern Bengal, Chittagong and Burma. 

 Weight, 28 Ibs. per cubic foot. The bark is chewed by natives in Assam. 



3. E. insignis, Mull. Arg. ; Beddome ccxiv. ; Brandis 442. C mm- 

 iilum insigne, Kurz ii. 412. Falconeriain8ignis,'Roy\e. Vern. Dudla, 

 bilodar, biloja, kardlla, ledra, Pb. ; Khinna, k/iitia lienda, lendwa, Hind. ; 

 Garpa shota, Anamalais. 



A small deciduous tree. Bark grey, smooth, shining, with large, 

 broad, longitudinal wrinkles. Wood grey, very soft, spongy. Annual 

 rings faintly marked. Tores moderate-sized and large, subdivided, and 

 often in short radial lines. Medullary rays very fine, indistinct. 



Sub-Himalayan tract from the Beas eastwards, ascending to 4,000 feet, Chittagong, 

 Burma, and Western Ghats as far north as Nasik. 



Growth rather fast, 4-7 rings per inch of radius. Weight, 23 to 29 Ibs. per cubic 

 foot. Wood used for the cylinders of native drums. The whole tree is full of an 

 acrid milk said to be poisonous. 



H 103. Bhajji, Simla, 4,000 feet . . 29 



H 615. Kulu, 5,000 feet ......... 23 



4. E. indica, Miill. Arg.; Beddome ccxv. ; Brandis 411 ; Kurz ii. 

 413. Sapium indicum, Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 092. Vern. lliu-ua, badil, 

 Beng. ; Kirri makalu, Ciugh. 



A small evergreen tree, with smooth, grey bark. Wood soft, white, 

 with small brown heart\vood. Pores moderate-sized and lai^v, oval, 

 often subdivided. Medullary rays equally distributed, very fine, closely 

 packed. The transverse diameter of the pores is greater than the distance 

 between the rays. 



Sundarbans and tidal forests of Tenasserim and Ceylon. 



Weight, 29 Ibs. per cubic foot. The wood is used in the Sundarbans for fuel. 

 The juice of the tree is very poisonous and the seeds are used to poison fish. 



Ibs. 

 E 409. Sundarbans .......... 29 



