TERMINALIA 



ARJUNA 



THE INDIAN MYROBALANS 



Increase. 



while the other chief markets are ordinarily Germany, Ceylon and 

 Australia. 



Price. Commenting on the price of teak, Noel-Paton states : " A great ex- 



pansion in shipbuilding and in some other branches of construction in the 

 United Kingdom, Germany, and the United States, has synchronised with 

 a contraction in the available supplies of teak, and has induced a rise of 

 price in some cases prohibitive. The average price in 1904-5 at Calcutta 

 was Rs. Ill to Rs. 116 per ton of 50 cubic feet. In 1905-6 it was Rs. 120 

 to Rs. 125. Exports of teak have increased in quantity by 12'5 per cent, 

 to 53,000 cubic tons, and in value by 17*25 per cent, to Rs. 70'4 lakhs. 

 But the difference between these two percentage rates of increase does not 

 gauge the enhancement in average value of a uniform quality of timber, 

 for it is understood that a good deal of inferior wood has gone forward in 

 the twelve months under report. Exports from Burma to India proper 

 decreased by a further 5'9 per cent, and reached a value of only 

 Rs. 71,30,683, while imports into India from Siam and Java increased 

 by some 34'7 per cent, to a total of Rs. 57 lakhs." 



[Cf. Vertomannus, Travels, 1503, in Hakl. Voy., iv., 595 ; Fryer, New Ace. 

 E. Ind. and Pers., 1675, 178 ; Milburn, Or. Comm., 1813, i., 328 ; Mason, Burma 

 and Its People (ed. Theobald), 1883, ii., 689-91 ; Pharmacog. Ind., Hi., 61-6 ; 

 Cameron, For. Trees of Mysore and Coorg, 1894, 215-9 ; Brandis, in Journ. Soc. 

 Arts, 1896-7, xlv., 129-34 ; Agri. Ledg., 1897, No. 14 ; Nicholson, Man. of Coim- 

 batore, 1898, ii., 213-8 ; Scott, Gaz. of Upper Burma and Shan States, 1900, ii., 

 pt. i., 307-14 : 1901, pt. ii., 22-3, 54-5, etc. ; Max and Bertha Ferra.rs, Burma, 

 1900, 111-4, 116-20 ; Ribbentrop, Forestry in Ind., 1900, 59-75, 189-96 ; Nisbet, 

 Burma under Brit. Rule and Before, 1901, i., 369 ; Webber, For. of Upper Ind., 



1902, 283-5 ; Wiesner, Die Rohst. des Pflanzenr., 1903, ii., 1003-5 ; For. Admin. 

 Repts., Burma, Bombay, etc. ; For. Working Plans, Burma, Bombay, etc. ; Ind. 

 For. (numerous articles).] 



TERMINALIA, Linn. ; Fl Br. Ind., ii., 443-9 ; Gamble, Man. Ind. 

 Timbs., 337-45 ; Prain, Beng. Plants, 1903, i., 481 ; Cooke, Fl. Pres. Bomb., 



1903, i., 477-81 ; Duthie, FL Upper Gang. Plain, 1903, i., 335-7 ; Brandis, 

 Ind. Trees, 1906, 307-12 ; COMBRETACE^E. A genus containing many 

 species distributed over the tropics of the world. There are some 16 

 representatives in India, many being large trees, valued for their timber 

 and as producers of the tanning fruits Myrobalans. An interesting 

 historic sketch of the knowledge of myrobalans will be found in Hobson- 

 Jobson (ed. Crooke, 1903, 607-10). 



Arjan. T. Arjuna, Bedd. The arjan, kahu, gara-hatana, kanha, mangi, sdn-madat, 



vellai-maruda, tandra, tella-maddi, toukkyan, etc. A large deciduous tree on 

 " banks of rivers and streams throughout Central and South India, extending 

 as far north as Oudh. Beyond that, towards- the north-west and in the 

 Panjab, it is found only as a cultivated tree ; Burma ; low country of Ceylon" 

 (Gamble). 



Gum. It yields a clear transparent GUM met with in the bazars of Northern India as 



Dye. a drug. The astringent bark is sometimes used as a DYE and TAN, and also in 



Wood. Native MEDICINE. The WOOD is apt to split in seasoning and is not easy to work, 



but is used for carts, agricultural implements, boats and for building. At the 

 Mysore gold mines it is used for supports and is called " White Matti." The ash 

 from burning the wood contains a very high percentage of lime (Trop. Agrist., 

 1906, xxv., 870-1). [Cf. Pharmacog. Ind., ii., 11-2; Cameron, For. Trees of 

 Mysore and Coorg, 1894. 1356 ; Duncan, Monog. Dyes and Dyeing in Assam, 

 1896, 52 ; Dutt, Mat. Med. Hind., 1900, 163-4 ; Hooper, in Agri.. Ledg., 1902, 

 No. 1, 38 ; Chandra, Monog. Tanning and Working in Leather, Beng., 1904, 7 ; 

 Trench, Monog. Tanning and Working in Leather, C. Prov., 1904, 7.] 



Beleric. T. belerica, Roxb. Beleric Myrobalan, bhaird, sagona, hipung, hulluvh, ye- 



hala, yella, tare, tani, tandi, kattu, elupav, santi, thitsein, etc. A large deciduous 



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D.E.P., 



vi., pt. iv. 

 16-41. 

 Myro- 

 balans. 



