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LIST OF USEFUL TREES WITH REMARKS. 



A. Melonoxylon. This is the furniture wood of Australia, grows from five 

 to seven thousand feet elevation,, a valuable tree. 



Habitat the same as above ; bark valuable for tanning, 

 wood good for burning. 



This, though only a small tree, might be found useful for 

 shading ground under Teak trees; does not grow well over 

 fifteen hundred feet above the sea-level, might be planted 

 when all but two hundred trees are cut out in the acre. 



The same remark applies to this bush. The pods are valu- 

 able for their dye, and Aruotto for coloring cheese is well 

 known. The seeds give a fine flavor when ground up with 

 cocoabeans. Grows up to three thousand feet elevation. 



A very useful, hard, heavy wood. 



Grows best in the Travancore forests. 



A. Dealbata. 



Cocoa, Theobro- 

 ma cacao. 



Bixa Orellana, 

 Arnotto. 



Iron wood, Mesua 



ferrea. 



Ebony, Disospy- 



ros Melanoxylon. 



Poon. Sterculia 

 fcetida. ? 



Splendid specimens on the Carcoor Ghat, first-rate spars 

 of this tree are said to be worth one thousand rupees on the 

 coast. 



Notes on Eucalyptus Globulus. This tree was planted at 

 Ootacamund by General Fred. Cotton, then Captain Cotton, 

 about the year 1843, there was one in the ornamental sholah 

 at Gaton then his property, and there were three trees in 

 his garden at Woodcote. 



In 1852 Mrs. Morgan drew my attention to the seeds of 

 a tree at Colonel Havelock's house, this was a species of 

 Eucalyptus, we raised about four hundred plants from its 

 seed, and finding the growth extremely rapid about ten feet 

 a year, I was induced to obtain a quantity of Eucalyptus 

 seed from Australia in 1856, and in a short time raised over 

 one hundred and fifty thousand plants, and distributed them 

 all over the hills. So rare were the plants that even in 

 18G7 the Government Gardens priced a plant at twelve annas, 

 and had the hills trusted to the gardens for the general 

 cultivation of this wonderful tree, they might never have 

 been planted to the extent they now are ! ! In 18G2 Sir 

 William Denison, the then Governor, seeing how success- 



