CHAPTEE VI 



TIMBERS OF INDIA, BURMA, AND ANDAMAN ISLANDS 



Bamboo Babool Tamarind Jackwood Hamileel Cocoanut Tree 

 Calamander Sal Toon Deodar Indian Ebony Palmyra 

 Palm Padouk Mango Eed Sanders Mysore Sandal wood 

 Vengai Satin wood Sundri Butter Tree Chittagong Wood 

 Kumbuk Eed Eyno Jaman Sissoo Blackwood Mutti 

 Neem Anjan Eng Gurjun Boxwood Kosum Khair 

 Palu Pyinkado Teak Kokko Chuglan Kaita-da Lakuch 

 Thitman Mohwa Thingan Pyinma Gangau Thitya 

 Ingyin Cangu Che Bhotan or Blue Pine Chir Pine Khasia 

 Pine Spruce Silver Fir Larch. 



Bamboo is the most generally useful of all the vegetable 

 productions of India. It is used for boat-building, oars, 

 clubs, walking-sticks, and for scaffolding, bridge -building, 

 and water-pipes ; it forms the framework which supports 

 the thatched roofs of houses, and from it are made the war 

 lance of the cavalry and the pole of the dooli. The bamboo, 

 which is really a gigantic grass, is of two distinct kinds, 

 the small, hard, close-grained, solid variety, the male 

 bamboo, which is rare, and the large hollow one which is 

 generally used for uprights and scaffolding. Bambusa 

 arundinacea is a very fine species ; Kyanhaung (B. auric'ulata) 

 and Tin (cephalostachyum pergracile) are two species of 

 bamboo which grow with the teak, also Wagok (Oxytcn- 

 anthera albociliata) ; they have cavities in their diameter 

 nearly one-third of that of the culms. Some of the 

 bamboos attain a height of 60 to 80 ft. and are about 

 8 inches in diameter. The wood is very tough and strong 



