DOLICHOS 



TRADE IN GARJAN OIL BIFLORUS 



Horse-gram 

 W. Ind., 1885, 88-9 ; Waring, Baz. Med. Ind., 1897, 70-2 ; Ponder and 



Mat. Med. Ind., 1901. :-'.] 



Jamble (I.e. 71) remarks that the WOOD of the garjan tree ifl used in Timber 

 house-building and for dug-out canoes, as also for packing-cases, but 

 that it is soon destroyed by white ants. Its large size, however, makes 

 it valuable for temporary purposes ; logs 40 to 60 feet in length are 

 sometimes procurable. With regard to weight he tells us that the speci- 

 iei;s lie had examined averaged 50 Ib. per cubic foot, [Cf. For. Admin. 

 t. Hunna, 1899-1900, 18 ; Working Plans Eept. Pyinmana, 1904, 16-7.] 

 Trade. Milburn (Or. Comm., 1813, ii., 315) mentions wood-oil, and 

 q>lains the uses it is put to. Royle, writing in 1840 (Prod. Res. Ind., 77), 



iks of wood-oil, but says it has never become an article of commerce, commercial 

 liu-kiger and Hanbury (Pharmocog.) state that the world's supply is lm P ort nce - 

 obtained from " Singapore, Moulmein, Akyab, and the Malayan Peninsula 

 id that it is a common article of trade in Siam." Dymock (I.e. 91) 

 .MM arks " Garjan Balsam is not an article of commerce in Bombay ; 

 small quantities may be sometimes obtained in the Native drug shops. 

 The Government supplies have been obtained from the Andaman Islands." 

 Moodeen Sheriff (I.e. 49) writes that in Madras wood-oil is common in 

 most large bazars ; he describes several forms and gives their prices. A 

 firm of Calcutta merchants, in a letter dated October 25, 1900, under- 

 took to supply garjan oil in 40-gallon casks at Rs. 47 per cwt. delivered 

 Calcutta. An official correspondence in 1901 resulted in the discovery 

 that some objection existed in the minds of European merchants in Ran- objections to 

 goon to engage in the traffic in kanyin (gargan) oil. One firm reported Trade - 

 that the quality of the oil varies very much, and the price accordingly. 

 The quotation given by them at that time was Rs. 60 per 100 viss equal 

 to about Rs. 20 or 1 65. 8d. per cwt., but this does not include casks 

 or drums. The Conservator of Forests in a communication of same date 

 was of opinion that if an assured demand arose, there would be little Demand 

 difficulty in procuring local persons willing to supply the oil in Pyinmana Insufficient - 

 ivision, the Ruby Mines Division and Tenasserim Circle. It will thus 

 seen that very little of a satisfactory nature can be furnished regarding 

 ic Indian supply of this article. There are four chief centres of pro- centres of 

 luction Burma, Andaman Islands, West and South India and Chittagong. Productlon - 

 le last mentioned, though formerly perhaps the most important, is the 

 ist valuable at the present day, and therefore it may be said that the 

 ipply, such as it is, comes almost exclusively from Burma and the An- 

 iman Islands and is exported from the port town of Rangoon chiefly. 

 le returns in one province appear as Ib., in another as viss, in a third 

 gallons, so that a combined statement is impossible. Moreover, in 

 icial statistics it is sometimes grouped with " resin," at others with 

 inor forest produce. One point only seems indicated, namely that with 

 le growth of the Chinese wood-oil (Aleurites Fordii, p. 46) a decline 

 both the supply and demand of garjan has taken place. 



DOLICHOS, Linn. ; LEGUMINOS.E. A genus of twining herbs 

 of which there are 20 species, six natives of India and two of economic 



D. biflorus, Linn. ; Fl. Br. Ind., ii., 210 ; Buch.-Ham., Journ. 

 Mysore, etc., 1807, i., 107-8, 286, 377 ; ii., 105, 198-9, 220, 323 ; iii., Horse 

 240, 296-7, 326, 352, etc.; Roxb., Fl Ind.;j\i., 313; Prain, Beng. Plants, gram." 



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