18 NOTE ON SAIN OR SAJ. 



(v) Punjab and Kashmir. 



Vernacular names. Sain, Assam, 



Local distribution. In the Kangra and Simla forest divisions only is 

 this tree reported to occur to any extent and even there it is not import- 

 ant at present. From the Submontane forest of the Simla Division the 

 cost of carriage is so high that even Sal has not so far been much exported 

 and in the Kangra hills it is confined to scrub forests and has rarely 

 been extracted. It can be delivered at Jagadhri for about 10 annas per 

 cubic foot, at Jullundur for HI and at Hoshiarpur for 12 annas per cubic 

 foot of sawn timber. 



In Jammu and Kashmir it is called BaJiera and is found in the outer 

 valleys of the Jammu Province below 2,000 feet, usually scattered in 

 cultivation and rare in forests. It attains a girth of 6 feet, occasionally 

 more, and is used in the construction of village houses and for agricul- 

 tural implements. 



(vi) Eastern Bengal and Assam. 



Vernacular names. Amari, Asna, Sain, Paka Saj, Asan. 



Local distribution. The tree is rare almost all over this province, and 

 does not occur in many of the forests at all. It appears to be common 

 only in the Jalpaiguri forests adjoining north-eastern Bengal and is 

 there found up to 700 feet above sea-level, usually in mixed forests 

 and rarely with Sal, trees 8 feet in girth being found with a clear bole of 

 40 feet. It can be extracted to railway stations for about 8 annas per 

 cubic foot in the round, and to Calcutta for about Rl-4 per cubic foot in 

 the round and Rl-10 sawn, but very little indeed has been sold up to 

 date. 



(vii) United Provinces. 



Vernacular names. Saj, Asna, Sain, Asaina, Hasna, Turha (Bun- 

 delkhand) . 



Local distribution. The Sain trees is, after Sal, one of the most im- 

 portant timber trees of the United Provinces, and occurs in considerable 

 numbers in almost all the Sal and many of the mixed forests and in the 

 lower hills up to an altitude of 4,000 feet. It usually favours clayey local- 

 ities on which it produces its best growth, and occasionally occurs pure over 

 small areas. In the best Sal forests of these provinces Sain attains at times 

 a girth of 13 feet with a clear bole of 50 feet, and many good trees of 6 to 

 8 feet in girth may be found. Under the various Working-Plans in 

 force the exploitable size is fixed at 6 or 7 feet, the number of Sain trees 



