108 FOREST PRODUCTS. 



Khaders, Puliars and other jungle tribes search the forests 

 for it in the dry weather, and barter it for rice, chillies, 

 cloth, &c., to the bazaar men, who yearly travel into the 

 forest to the " pathies" or villages of the aboriginal tribes 

 to obtain it and other forest products. 



Albizzia Lebbek yields a clear gum copiously, if the 

 bark is cut or injured in the dry weather. 



Albizzia Odorattissima. The gum of this tree is poor in 

 quality, and dark in colour. It is only obtainable in the 

 dry weather, by hacking the trunk of a tree with a knife. 



Alstonia Scholaris. A very handsome evergreen tree 

 found everywhere in the district, from the sea-level to 

 nearly 3,000 feet in the Wynaad. An abundance of milky 

 sap flows out of the bark when cut, which has some of 

 the qualities of caoutchouc about it ; but is sticky, and 

 more fit for bird-lime. Some of these trees in the evergreen 

 forests of the Chenat Nair forests are over thirty feet in 

 circumference. 



Anacardium occidentale. The cashew-nut has taken 

 kindly to the west coast where it has found a congenial 

 soil, and climate, and spread everywhere \ it produces an 

 excellent gum, which is used by book-binders as a protection 

 against cockroaches and other insects. 



Anogeissus latifolia occurs throughout Malabar up to 

 2,500 feet elevation. Produces an abundance of excellent 

 clear gum, if the bark is injured. It is not, however, col- 

 lected in the district. 



Areca Catechu Cultivated. The seeds of the wild spe- 

 cies contain a large percentage of tannin, and catechu could 

 no doubt be extracted from them. The aboriginal tribes, 

 however, only chew the nuts with wild betel (Chavica betel) 

 leaves, and lime made from the shells of fresh water snails. 



Artocarpus integrifolia The jack tree. Common in 

 the forests of the Western Ghats; produces an abundance of 

 milky sup which on exposure coagulates. It is occasionally 

 used as bird-lime, when combined with the milky sap of 



