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her plantations. I regret the circumstance the more, 

 as having had a tendency perhaps to induce the 

 Government to abandon all attempts of the kind ; 

 and though he particularly recommends the exten- 

 sion of a common tree 'here, the Babool, termed by 

 him " a most valuable one and our natural timber," 

 yet there are others of equally spontaneous growth, 

 and far superior qualities, namely the Chuckrassia 

 tabularis, a new species lately discovered in the 

 Concan,* and the Cedrela Toona, all which would 

 seem to have remained hitherto unknown (singular 

 enough) ; added to the Chloroxylon Swietenia, Ca- 

 lophyllum Inophyllum, and Shorea robusta, which 

 might be made the object of extensive cultivation 

 in our vicinity ; while the expediency of forming 

 a teak plantation in the S. Concan merits the at- 

 tention of the Government where the combined 

 effects of heat and moisture are more calculated to 

 develope the gigantic dimensions of that prince of 

 our timber forests. 



I regret we have nothing to give in return for 

 what we may expect from Bengal, except the Caly- 

 saccion longifolium, used as a dye-stuff so poor is 



* This tree was discovered by Mr. Nimmo himself on the Toongcr 

 Hills, Dec. 1838. It is now called C. Nimmonii by Dr. Wight. II. H. S. 



