20 NOTE ON SAIN OK SAJ. 



Figures from Working- flans in the United Provinces. 



(viii) Western India. 



Vernacular names. Matti, Sadad or Sadado (Gujarat!) , Kari-Matti 

 (Dharwar), Ain (Thana and Kolaba) or Ains. 



Local distribution. The tree is reported to be abundant in all the 

 forest tracts except Satara and Belgaum forming up to 50 per cent, of 

 the crop in parts of the Thana district and occurring to the extent of 30 

 mature trees per acre in parts of the Dangs forests in Surat. In Kolaba 

 lopping for ash manure for rice cultivation has almost exterminated it in 

 certain parts. Its northern limit seems to be 24 as it does not occur in 

 Sindh and Rajputana, but in Kanara it is very plentiful. From the 

 Dangs forests in Surat it forms the bulk of the yield of jungle-wood. 

 Although apparently attaining its largest size, 8 feet in girth, 100 feet 

 in height, with clear bole of 60 feet, only on flat fertile areas, it is found 

 in almost all classes of forest from 100 to 2,500 feet above sea-level. It 

 is generally smaller than this, and is usually much less of a timber tree 

 near its n6rthern limit- 



