81DA 

 A VALUAH CARPIHIKOMA 



employed of all timbi or. season U, but Ma*u*9*r 



.good t- are said to be ahu< > 



durability. " It is in constant MS, 



Mi t..r 1,,-an.-,. doOI .in. I window i , tfUJi carriage* ; the 



bod] .UK! HI...... 



liich reaches some lakh* of cubic feet. It is ued, <>r used to be used, in the hill* 

 ril,.-rn Bongal, w)i. .1,1 |,,-rh,.|m,.f the largest sixe now available, 



for making canoes. Owing to its n.,i . y experienced 



in those sal forest* which are iii tin- lull 



.in log. The difficult; ,;i\ ..vercome by floating logs either with 



the assistance of boats or with floats of bamboo* *>3s, such as urn of 



(mh. ( . ,, t ,,i.,i,,, r t, )" (Cum I. : . 



x\Mi. ; also in Ball, Proc. H., 4lj ; Church.' 



.Food-Grains of Ind., 1880, 175-0; Pharmacog. 1 ->-; For. Working Plans 



jor Bengal, U. Prow., Cent. I'r,,,-.. Assam, etc. (num.-rous papers); For. Admin. 

 Repts. Bengal, U.Prov., etc. ; ///. For., 1889, xv., 51-5; J/o* 



WA iv.is, ; , f>4 ; K.inlloy-WihnMt. \,,t f on Sal For.. 1899. 



H|.|... 1-10; Improv. Fellings in Sal For., 1899, xxv.. uj . Proporf. 



fallings in Sal For., 1904, xxx., 393-7, 441-60; Cluuiner. Trtatm. of Sdl For. 

 under Selection Syat., 1905, xxxi., 328-34 ; tv I9O5. 



. 147-53; The Bower Manuscr, iml ). Intel 7. 1O6. 189; Nevill. 



Dist. Qaz. U. Prow., 1903, v., 19-20, etc. ; 1905, xlii.. 9-IH . All.-... Oat. GWporo, 

 Assam, 1905, iii., 78-83.] 



SIDA CARPINIFOLIA, Linn. : Fl. Hr. ///. W^ht, DAP, 



Icon. Ind. Or., t. 95. The Hornbeam-leaved Sida, baridra, Lareta, ptia- **- P 1 - u - 

 -iere/o, 6on methi, isbadi, bald, jangli-methi, tuphirui. tukati, vatta-tirippi, ^^ 

 pata, etc. A perennial under-shrub distributed throughout the hotter 

 parts of India. 



S. rhombifolia, Linn. ; Cooke, Fl. Pres. Bomb., i., 93 ; Duthie, Fl. 



Upper Gang. Plain, i., 81 ; Prain, Beng. Plants, 1903, i <wet- 



J>erela, M-berela, pitbala, bdla, jangli-methi, athi-balla chettu, atibald, etc., 

 and though more variable and perhaps less abundant, is also distributed 

 throughout the tropical regions of India ; MALVACEAE. 



The above, as also most other species, are very largely used by the Natives 

 of India, being regarded as diaphoretic, diuretic, and demulcent, especially the 

 root barks. The chief interest in them, however, centres in their beautiful bast 

 fibres. Roxburgh, in 1832, wrote (Fl. Ind.. iii.. 177) of the latter species that 

 the bark yields " abundance of very delicate flaxy fibre, and I think might be 

 advantageously employed for many purposes." Royle (Fibrous PL, 262), in 

 1855, republished that statement and added the opinion of Captain Thomson. 

 who thought that from its " length, its similarity to silk, and its great strength, 

 that it would fetch a high price in England. The line (only half an inch in cir- 

 cumference) sustained, after exposure to wet and sun for ten days, 400 Ib." 



In the Journal of the Agri. -Horticultural Society of India (1881, vi., n.s.. 224-4) 

 particulars are given of a consignment of the " burriala " fibre submitted by the 

 'Raja of Balihar in the district of Kujxhuhi. !>. , M that sample, Mr. Cogswell 

 submitted a report, in which he complained of insufficient steeping and the 

 presence of injurious " croppy ends." A later sample had been over steeped 

 and become " fozie." W. Stalkartt asked if it could be produced as cheap or 

 nearly aa cheap as jute ? At the Colonial and Indian Exhilntion. l.-n i 

 1 880, a fair sample was shown by me to the fibre experts, who admired it greatly. 

 The silvery colour was regarded as of importance in rendering it suitable for 

 poses to which jute could not be applied. Accordingly it was placed as superior 

 to jute and the ultimate fibres were found to be much finer, thus rendering the 

 .fibre suitable for some of the purposes to which linen H put. In the Journal 

 <of the Agri.-Horticultural Society of India, 1890, viii., n.s., 124, Blochynden 

 says : "A small plot of land was devoted to *u* r***M/f<, and the yield TWd. 

 -per acre found to work out to 5 maunds 19 seers cleaned fibre. It was stated 

 .that the plant did not grow well but was branchy, hence it was iitncult to extract 

 ithe fibre and the machine used could not deal with it properly." It wr- 



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