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is not unattended with risk owing to the UabiHty of the seedhngs to die of 

 drought ; care is therefore necessary to keep a ball of earth round the roots. 

 Risk is further avoided by pricking out the plants into baskets or bamboo 

 tubes instead of into boxes or nursery-beds, so that there is no interference 

 with the roots during transplanting. After transplanting it is advisable to 

 keep the soil round the plants well loosened and free from weeds in order to 

 stimulate vigorous growth and to prevent caking of the ground. 



Rate of growth. The following results of girth measurements in high 

 forest sample plots are available : 



Adina cordifolia : girth increment in high forest sample plots. 



Coppice measurements by Mr. C. M. McCrie in 1910 in the Gorakhpur 

 district, United Provinces, showed an average height and girth of 18-7 ft. and 

 6-9 in. respectively in seven years, as compared with an average height and 

 girth of 10-2 ft. and 3-87 in. respectively for sal in the same coupe. 



Measurements of coppice-shoots on somewhat poor stony ground in the 

 Saitba block, Kolhan forest division, Chota Nagpur, gave the following results : 



Adina cordifolia : coppice measurements, Saitba block, Kolhan. 



3. STEPHEGYNE, Korth. 



Species 1. S. parvifolia, Korth. ; 2. S. diversifolia, Hook. f. 



1. Stephegyne parvifolia, Korth. Syn. Nauclea parvifolia, Willd. ; Mitra- 

 gyna parvifolia, Korth. Y ei'n. Kaem, phaldu, Hind. ; Kalamb, Mar. ; Kadawar, 

 yetega, Kan. ; Chinna kadamhu, Tam. ; Rattaganapa, Tel. ; Tein, teinthe, Burm. 



A large deciduous tree with a full rounded crown and a bole often short, 

 fluted, and buttressed. Bark up to 0-8 in. thick, grey, smooth, exfohating in 

 scales which leave shallow depressions. Wood light pinkish brown, even 

 grained, used for building, furniture, agricultural implements, bobbins, combs, 

 cups, spoons, and other carved and turned articles ; it is less in demand than 

 that of Adina cordifolia. Under favourable conditions the tree reaches large 

 dimensions : Fig. 238 shows a tree on alluvial ground in the Siwalik hills 

 27 ft. 6 in. in girth and 78 ft. high. 



Distribution and habitat. Throughout the greater part of India and 

 Burma, ascending to 4,000 ft. in the outer Himalaya ; also in Ceylon. Not 



