NOTE Ofr SANDAN. 3 



Occasionally used for making ropes. During the famine of 1896-97, the 

 flower was in great request as food in Oudh, being eaten boiled. 



5. Natural Reproduction and Rate of Growth. 



Seedlings are usually fairly plentiful and the tree can be readily pro- 

 pagated by means of root-suckers. In 1895, Mr. H. C. Hill noted in the 

 Central Provinces that dense thickets of this and other trees were to be 

 found wherever the beneficial influence of an old Mohwa tree was felt. 

 Suckers produce small pure patches of young growth in many parts. In 

 the Dehra Dun seedlings and root-shoots are plentiful where slopes and 

 banks of nullahs let light into the dense sal forests. 



Caccia records measurements taken on 90 trees in sample plots in the 

 United Provinces over periods of years varying up to 19. The mean annual 

 girth increment varied from nil to '52 of an inch, the latter figure being 

 exceptionally high. 



6. Artificial Reproduction. 



Sowings have been made in pits in Bombay with but moderate results. 

 In the Central Provinces sowings in lines have been fairly successful, and 

 broadcast sowings unsuccessful. The seed usually germinates easily. 



7. Notes on Distribution and Extraction in different Provinces. 



(i] Central Provinces. 



Vernacular names. Tinas, Tirisa, Tinnas. 



Local distribution. The tree is very widely distributed in the Central 

 Provinces but rarely attains a large size. It grows up to 2,500 feet above 

 sea-level scattered through the Sal, Teak and other deciduous forests, oc- 

 casionally forming as much as 8 per cent, of the crop, preferring clay and 

 deep heavy soils, and being found at times in small pure patches. In 

 Berar it is reported to be found often on light red soils up to 3,800 feet 

 above sea-level, on hill-tops and abandoned cultivation, and at other times 

 on black cotton soil. In South Chanda it occasionally reaches a girth of 

 5 feet, with 60 feet height and 30 feet clear bole, but this is exceptional 

 and in many districts it rarely attains a girth of 3 feet. The largest trees 

 are found in South Chanda, Balaghat, Bilaspur, Narsingpore, Mandla, 

 Seoni, Betul. In the last named it is held to be quite as valuable as Teak 

 for local purposes. 



