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Ram-til, or foolish vl'fl plant {Guizotea oleifera) 



Huch ellu, Can. 

 Castor oil (Ricinus communis) : Haralu, Can. 

 Mahwa, or Indian butter tree (Bassia latifolia). 

 Illupie, Indian oil tree [Bassia long if olio) : 



Hippa, Can. 



Of those producing- dye stuffs : — 



Gamboge tree {Garcinia pictoria). 



The Safflower shrub [Carthamus tinctorius). 

 Deep gorges, here and there opening out into a 

 vaUey with running water and cascades, clumps of tall 

 waving Bamboos, of which there are a great many 

 different species used for building bridges, making 

 furniture, rope, and a variety of other useful articles ; and 

 strings of Screw-pines (Pandanus) (Plate XV.), dipping 

 their thirsty serial roots into the moist soil near a rivulet ; 

 the fruit of the latter after being boiled and dried, forms 

 farinaceous food for the natives. Again you get into the 

 wood, running up a hill ; this time there are no trees 

 above fifteen or twenty feet high, for it is little more 

 than a jungle now, the forest having, at some former 

 period, been cut down to make room for cultivation, and 

 since been followed by a secondary growth of trees of a 

 smaller type. Such land is called " kumri," and many 

 coffee plantations or gardens have been made on it and 



