308 SYLVICULTURE IN THE TROPICS 



Stereospermum, 56 

 Kunthianum, 7 



Stock, 107 



Stones, protection against rolling, 296 



Stool, 107 



-shoot, 107 

 Stools, age and size of, 190 



best season for cutting, 192 



height and shape of, 191 



implements for cutting, 192 



regeneration from, 189 

 Store, 108 

 Stored coppice, 108 

 Striga, 186 

 Strip Method, 213 

 Strobilanthes, 29, 40, 60, 210 

 Struggle for existence, 229 

 Stumping, 144, 176, 179 

 Sunaptea, 27 

 Sundri-wood, 47 

 Sunflower, Mexican, 60 

 Sunshine in the Tropics, effects of, 17 

 Supplies, 187 

 Supply-baskets, 134 

 Supplying vacancies, 187 

 Suppressed, 108 

 Swietenia, 33, 56 

 Symphonic/,, 43 

 Symplocos, 29, 40, 51 



Tamarind. See Tamarindus 

 Tamarindus indica, 6, 24, 35 

 Tamariscus articulata, 50 



gallica, 50 

 Taproot, pruning of the, 137 

 Taungya, 89 



Tea tree of Queensland, 34 

 Teak, 22, 35, 41, 59, 72, 86, 87, 93, 



119, 120, 135, 184, 194, 224 

 Tectona grandis. See Teak 

 Temperature in forests, 102 



range of, 19 

 Temporary nurseries, 122 

 TenminaMa, 32, 34 



Belerica, 41, 67 



Catappa, 47 



( 'htbrda, 41 



glabra, 52, 5:! 



tomentosa, 35 

 Termites, 71 



Testing of seed, 118, 119 

 Teirameles nudiflora, 29, 30 

 Tetrapleura, 32 

 Tfti<i/>tii/<i,i. 28;' 

 Thicket, 107 



Thinnings, 238 

 heavy, 241 

 light, '-Ml 

 moderate, '2 11 

 plenary, 2 1 1 



Thinnings, repetition of, 242 



time for carrying out, 244 

 Ticket-patrol in fire protection, 279 

 Tiliaceae, 56 

 Tilth of soil, 168 

 Tithonia diversifolia, 60 

 Topping, 235 

 Torsion-rake, 168, 169 

 Toxic substances in the soil, 13, 14 

 Trace, fire-, 267 



burning of, 273 



clearing of, 268 



width of, 270 

 Trade-winds, 54 



Training and improvement of forest 

 crops, 227 



of watercourses, 294 

 Tramp-pick, 168, 169, 173 

 Transplanter, Ceylon, 141 



circular, 140, 141, 177 

 Transplant-holder, 143, 144 

 Transplants, lifting into nurserv lines. 

 138 



watering of, 144 



with balls of earth, 139, 176 



without balls of earth, 139, 179 

 Transport of plants to the field, 176, 

 179 



of water, 133 

 Traveller's joy, 50 

 Tree, 106 



-ferns, 40, 43 



-heaths, 43 



-lilies, 45, 49 



-Lobelia, 43 



-pruner, 116, 117, 235 



-Senecio, 43 

 Trema, 203 

 Tribulus, 289 

 Trichilia emetica, 51 

 Trichoma ma, 26 

 Trincomalie-wood, 22 

 Triplaris, 68 

 Tristania suaveolens, 34 

 Trowel, garden-, 138 



-hoe, 133, 173 

 Tulipwood (of Queensland), 34 

 Turraea nilotica, 53 

 Twisted fibre, 54 



Umbelliferae, 50 

 Undergrowth, 107 

 Under-shrub, 106 

 Unemployed, forests and the, 102 

 Uniform crop, 107 



fellings, 207 

 Unstable slopes, fixation of, 289 



revetment walls for, 293 



training of watercourses on, 294 



wattle-fences on, 293 



