s.] JUGLANI-: 393 



Ibu. 

 H 428. Durani block, Deoban, Jaunsar, 0,000 feet .... 43 



E 357. Tukdah Forest, Darjeeliug, 5,000 feet 28 



E 2110. Daifteling, 6,000 feel 37 



E 2141. Rangirtim Forest, Darjeeling, 5,000 feet .... 33 



2. ENGELHARDTIA, Lesch. 



Three species, though Brandis, p. 500, thinks that th< two described are probably 

 varieties only of one and the same, viz., E.spicata. E. villosa, Kurz ii. 491, is a 

 of the Eng forests of Martaban and Tenasserim. 



1. E. Colebrookiana, Lindl.; Brandis 499. Vern. Timar rakh, Pb. ; 

 Mowa, gobar mowa, bodal mowa, mao, Kumaun ; K/iusam, Banda. 



A small deciduous tree. Bark grey. Wood grey with a reddish 

 tinge, moderately hard, even-grained, seasons and polishes well, but is 

 not durable. Annual rings faintly marked. Pores moderate-sized and 

 large, mostly oval and subdivided, uniformly distributed. Medullary 

 rays fine, uniform, equidistant, numerous. Pores marked on a longitudinal 

 section. 



Outer North-West Himalaya ascending to 6,500 feet, often gregarious. 

 Growth, our specimen shews 5 rings per inch of radius. Weight, 33 Ibs. per cubic 

 foot. 



Ibs. 

 H 241. Garhwal Hills (1868) 33 



2. E. spicata, Bl.; Brandis 500; Gamble 81. E. Hoxljuryldana, 

 Lindl. Jug fans pferococca, Roxb. FL Ind. iii. 631. Vern. Silapoma, 

 Hind. ; Moioa, mahua 9 Nep. ; Suviafc, Lepcha ; Botos, Beng. ; Rnmgach, 

 Ass.; Bor-paUa-jam, Cachar ; Dhiglaba, Khasia ; Vakm, Garo. 



A large, handsome, deciduous tree. Character and structure of the 

 wood similar to that of E. Colcbrookiana, shewing a beautiful grain on a 

 radial section. Faint concentric lines joining the pores. 



Terai and outer hills of Eastern Himalaya up to 6,000 feet, Chittagong and Burma. 

 Growth fast, 3 to 5 rings per inch of radius. Weight, Wallich gives 40, our speci- 

 mens 33 Ibs. per cubic foot. The wood is used in Sikkim for tea-boxes and building ; in 

 the Khasia Hills and Cachar for planking and spoons. It does not warp. The tree 

 coppices very freely, and coppice woods almost pure or mixed with oak and chestnut, 

 are not uncommon near Darjeeling. 



Ibs. 



E 653. Bamunpokri, Darjeeling Terai 30 



E 687. Sepoydnra Forest, Darjeeling, 5,000 feet . . . .33 

 E 2412. Chuttockpur Forest, Dtrjeeling, 6,000 feet .... ;3(> 



ORDER CI. GNETACE^l. 



Two genera, Gnctinn and EpHedra; the first containing 5 species, chiefly of the 

 moist zones ; the latter 2, of the arid zone and inner arid Himalaya. 



Gn-etum sctt-mlcns, Koxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 518; Brandis 502. (G. cdule, Bl. ; Kurz 

 ii. 495) Vern. A'i< a/turf, limbfi, Bombay; Nanu-toiti, Sylhet ; Gyootnway, Burm., 

 is a large climbing shrub of Sikkim, the Khasia Hills, Eastern Bengal, Western Ghats, 

 Burma and the Andamans, whose fruit is eaten. 6r. fltniculare, lil. ; Kur/ ii. 4llf>. 

 Vern. Gyootmvay, Burm., is a large scandent shrub of Chittagong and Burma, 

 G. neylectum, EL, is a climber of Arracan and South Teuasseriin ; and G. Gncmon, 



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