8 NOTE ON BENTEAK OB. NANA WOOD. 



Prom 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 quantity of timber the forest can 

 produce, and up-tc-date estimates should be obtained from the Deputy 

 Conservator of Forests, Coorg. 



Name of Area in square Quantity in cubic feet 



Forest. miles. available annually. 



Devamachi-Mawkal . . 28 1,000 



Nalberi-Hatgat . . . 83 7,500 



Anekadu-Attoor ... 20 800 



Arfceri .... 29 500 



(ii) .Western India. 



Vernacular names. Nana (Marathi and Guzrati), Nandi (Canarese). 



Local distribution. In the Bombay Presidency the home of this 

 tree is in Kanara where it is common, occurring at all altitudes up 

 to 2,500 feet. It prefers a well- drained slope and has some of the 

 habits of teak, with which it is often associated. Like teak too it is 

 found sometimes in evergreen forests, where it overtops the evergreen 

 species. Foulkes in "Notes on Timber Trees in South Kanara " says : 

 " It prefers gneiss soils to laterite and does best in the low Ghat forests 

 where the rainfall is fairly heavy" but in the Western Division of 

 Kanara the finest specimens are reported to be found in dry deciduous 

 forest on steep slopes. 



In the north of the Presidency it is smaller and rarer, but is reported 

 to occur to the extent of 5 per cent, in South Thana and 2 per cent, in 

 Kolaba, but timber is not available. 



, Good trees have been'seen in Kanara 10 feet in girth and 100 feet in 

 height with a clear bole of 50 feet. 



It xtr action. The size at which the tree may be felled in Kanara is 

 usually 6 to 7 feet in girth. The forests containing the best trees are 

 worked under the Selection system as a rule, mature trees being chosen for 

 felling, and the trees are extracted either by purchasers or departmentally. 

 The logs are dragged or carted from the forests, as the nature of the 

 country allows, and are sometimes floated down to the sea-coast. 



The duty charged by Government in Kanara is S3 per Jchandy of 

 12^ cubic feet, and the local selling price is about R8 in Eastern, 

 H9-S in Western, and RIO in Southern Kanara. 



