14 NOTE ON BLJA SAL OR VENGAI. 



From the Coorg Working- Plans the figures given below have been 

 taken. As, however, the Working-Plans have mostly expired, the figures 

 must be taken merely as a guide to the amount of timber that may at 

 present be available annually, and up-to-date figures should be obtained 

 from the Deputy Conservator of Forests, Coorg. 



(iv) Western India. 



Vernacular names. Bibla (Marathi), Honne, Asana, Bio (Gujarati). 



Local distribution.- Five per cent, is the highest proportion of the grow- 

 ing stock that the species evei\occupies in Bombay, and three trees per 5 

 acres are reported from the eastern part of Kanara, a district where it 

 appears to be generally plentiful. In Surat as many as ten trees to the 

 acre are occasionally found, but in Poona and Khandesh it is very scarce, 

 and is not found in Satara, being thus a tree principally of the southern 

 part of the Presidency. It grows best at an elevation of 1,000 feet or so 

 and can grow in exposed situations, but occurs in most of the deciduous 

 forests between 500 and 2,500 feet, and prefers quartzite to black soils. 

 It attains a girth of more than 8 feet in Western Kanara and a height of 

 90 feet with a clear bole of 50 feet, but smaller sizes are much more 

 common. 



Extraction. In the forests where the tree yields timber, trees are 

 selected for felling. In Central Thana 1 8 inches is the minimum dia- 

 meter taken, in the Eastern Divisions of Kanara 75 inches in girth, and in 

 the Western Division 6 feet. In Kanara a good deal of extraction is done 

 by Government agency, but coupes are sometimes sold to purchasers here 

 as is commonly done elsewhere, most of the timber being carted from the 



