NOTE ON GTJMHAR. 3 



that the logs will float easily, and in Orissa also girdling is sometimes 

 carried out. It should not be used green as it shrinks to a certain extent 

 when drying, but does not alter when seasoned. 



Uses. In Burma and Assam the wood is much used for dug-outs, and 

 elsewhere it is in great demand for planking, furniture, panels of doors, 

 carriages, well-work, decks of boats, toys, dolls, lacquered boxes, sandals, 

 drums, yokes, grain-measures, plane-tables, carving, musical instruments, 

 cattle-bells, and clogs. 



In Assam it has been used for tea-boxes and it has been found suit- 

 able in match-making for sticks and inside boxes, but not for outside 

 boxes. In the Southern Shan States it is used for bridges, and the 

 Karens of Tennasserim use it for plates and trays. From South Tennas- 

 serim it is sent to Calcutta and Rangoon for the finer kinds of packing 

 cases. A small consignment of timber sold in London in 1878 fetched 

 2 per ton. It makes fairly good unbleached wood pulp. 



4. Minor Products. 



The fruit, root, and bark are used in Hindu medicine and cattle and 

 deer eat the young shoots and the fruit. The Gonds of the Satpuras 

 protect the tree near the villages for the sake of the fruit which they eat. 

 The leaves are sometimes used to feed the " Eri " silk worm of Assam. 

 In Madras the juice of the root is used in dysentery and the fruit is 

 rubbed over the scalp to cure boils, and in parts of Burma it is considered 

 to be a mild tonic. The Karens of Tennasserim sometimes make a kind 

 of cake of the flowers. The wood is used in India to make pearl ash 

 (potash salts). 



5. Natural Reproduction. 



Seedlings are not reported to be plentiful in any of the forests, and 

 this is doubtless due to the extent to which they are browsed down by 

 cattle and deer. When the tree is able to get a start, as in the dense 

 cover of old hill clearings and in thick patches of vegetation in valleys, 

 where animals cannot reach it easily, young plants are found at times 

 to a considerable extent. Mr. H. H. Haines considers that the species is 

 distributed by cattle and deer which eat the fruit and reject the stones. 



No difficulty is found in obtaining vigorous coppice shoots. 



