NOTE ON slNDAN. 5 



(ii) Rajputana and Central India Agency. 



In the Mar war State in Rajputana it is known as Tinash or Tanach, 

 but is rare and does not grow to a large size. It is much in demand 

 locally at about one rupee per cubic foot for tool handles, etc., but there is 

 little available. 



In Gwalior it is found, but as a small and unimportant tree. 



In the State of Rewah it is called Sand/tan and occurs to the extent of 

 8 per cent, in the Bondi and Singrouli forests, not being often found of 

 greater girth than two feet. It is useful for agricultural implements and 

 house-building. 



In Indore it is found throughout the State, generally crooked and 

 seldom attaining a great height or more than 2 feet in girth. In some 

 of the best mixed forests, especially on the Satpuras, it attains occasion- 

 ally a girth of 4 feet, but straight trees are the exception. From the more 

 remote forests on the Khandesh borders, etc., most of the best trees have 

 been extracted, generally illicitly. No timber is so much valued locally, 

 and cultivators will pay any price to secure it for shafts, carts and agri- 

 cultural implements. A pair of poles will sell for R8 to RIO dressed 

 to IS" girth 12 feet long, in the Khargone Division. In the Indore 

 Division poles sell for Rl-8 to R7. It reproduces itself profusely by 

 root-shoots in old fields, etc., and the forests are full of young growth. 



(Hi) Southern India. 



Vernacular names. Bandhano (Uriya), Kallu Mokke (Tamil), Betta- 

 honrte (Canarese), Asavuni or Manimuthu (Madura). 



Local distribution. This tree is not common anywhere in Madras 

 and does not occur in many of the districts. In Central and North 

 Coimbatore, Ganjam and Madura it is reported to be scattered, occurring 

 to the extent of 4 trees over 3 feet in girth per hundred acres, and 

 reaching a girth of 4 feet and a height of 30 feet in Ganjam. In 

 Madura the girth is sometimes as large as 6 feet, and the tree usually 

 occurs at 3,000 to 4,000 feet above the sea, on the Palni Hills. Else- 

 where it grows in mixed deciduous forests between 500 and 3,000 feet 

 above sea-level. 



Extraction. From the hills of Madura about 500 cubic feet may be 

 extracted annually, delivered at Kodaikanal Railway station at Rl-12, 

 and at Madura at Rl-14 per cubic foot. 



