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APPENDIX C 



NOTES ON THE PRODUCE OF THE ANDAMANESE FORESTS 

 The following is a list of some of the more useful and valuable woods : — 



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Padouk 

 Koko . 



Chuglam, Black 

 Marble wood 



Padouk 



Gangaw 



Toung-peingne 



Pyimma 



Thingan 



Lakuch 



Thitmin 



Gurjan 



Mohwa 



Bombway . 



Gangaw 



Mohwa 



Pyimma 



Lakuch 



Gurjan 



Thingan 



Gurjan 



Didu . 



Toung-peingne . . . y 



Thitmin 



And numerous other woods j 



Pterocarpus Indicus 

 Albizzia Lebbek 

 Myristica Irya 

 Diospyros Kurzii . 



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Padouk 

 Pyimma 

 Thingan 



Padouk 

 Gangaw 



Lakuch 

 Thitmin 



Satin wood 



Mangrove . 



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Pterocarpus Indicus 

 IMesua ferrea . 

 Artocarpus Chaplasha 

 Lagerstrcemia hypoleuca 

 Hopea odorata 

 Artocarpus Lakucha 

 Podocarpus bracteata 

 Dipterocarpus sp. . 

 Mimusops littoralis 



Careya arborea 

 Mesua ferrea . 

 Mimusops littoralis 

 Lagerstrcemia hypoleuc; 

 Artocarpus Lakucha 

 Dipterocarpus sp. . 

 Hopea odorata 



Dipterocarpus sp. , 

 Bombax insigne 

 Artocarpus Chaplasha 

 Podocarpus bracteata 

 Barringtonia sp. 



Pterocarpus Indicus 

 Lagerstrcemia hypoleuca 

 Hopea odorata 



Pterocarpus Indicus 

 Mesua ferrea . 



Artocarpus Lakucha 

 Podocarpus bracteata 



Murraya exotica 



sp. 



For furniture. 



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For building. 



Probably useful for 

 paving-blocks. 



For tea - boxes, 

 indigo boxes, 

 and packing- 

 cases. 



For gun-carriages 

 and carriage 

 work. 



For shafts. 



Probably useful 

 for oars. 



In place of box- 

 wood. 



For firewood. 



The Madras and Bombay Government gun-carriage factories are supplied 

 with Andamanese timber, which, so far, is understood to have given them 

 satisfaction. Such timber has been sent to Roorkee for the Military Gymna- 

 sium, as being the best suited in India for its purposes. The Indian Marine 



