Z INTRODUCTION. 
, districts often forma large part of the forest vegetation, e.g., Tamarind, 
Babul, Neem, Pricklypear, Lantana, and along streams Thevetia, 
Oleander, and so forth. Allamanda grows in profusion in the back- 
waters of the West Coast, T'urnera is apparently common there and in 
Ganjam. Then again exotics have been largely planted for commer- 
cial purposes, and cannot be ignored; the Casuarina all down the 
coast, Hucalypti, Wattles, and Pines in the higher hills of the 
Presidency. Innumerable species and genera have been tried, with 
varying measures of success, and it seems unreasonable to exclude 
them. Again many have been largely introduced for ornament, 
including avenue trees; samples are the Portia, Albizzia, Enterolobium, 
Colvillea, Spathodea, and innumerable others. Then, if such are 
introduced for ornamental purposes, common garden trees and shrubs - 
should be entered too, Almost every Forest officer is a lover of 
arbori-horticulture, and endeavours to make a beautiful garden not 
only in the compound of his own head-quarter bungalow, but in the 
compounds of the bungalows in the heart of the forests; and this is 
not confined by any means to the controlling staff, but a large number 
of rangers do the same. The ranger wants to know the names of 
these exotics just as much as does any one else of higher standing; | 
and as the work aims at being a help to rangers and lower 
subordinates first and foremost, such names of exotics have been ~ 
shown. | 
4, In these circumstances an endeavour has been made to include ~ 
every tree shrub and climber known to exist in the Presidency. I am 
aware that some have been omitted, but this was discovered only after 
the list was originally developed and the addition of new ones would | 
cause contusion. This revised list cannot be considered final by any 
means, it is only a step, though it is believed, and hoped, to be rather 
a big step, The way I set to work was first to consult the chief stand- 
ard authors on Madras trees, e.g., Beddone, Brandis, Gamble, 
Bourdillon and Cameron’s Trees of Mysore, and Roxburgh and Hooker | 
where they applied ; then all the Working-plans, Forest Administra- 
tion Reports from 1859 to 1906 were exploited ; and finally, knowing | 
that many exotics had been put down in forest compounds which were ~ 
not included in these, the great Robert Brown’s list of treesin the | 
Madras Agri-horticultural gardens, supplemented by Wood, Riddell 
and Boddam’s and Jaffrey’s Hints on gardening, Cameron’s work | 
on gardening, supplemented—or rather checked so as to bring it within 
Presidency limits—by nurserymen’s lists including. Rudrappa, Muni- 
swami, and Hodson of Bangalore, the Ootacamund garden list, and 
the Madras Agri-horticultural list. 
5. The most difficult part of the whole work was the correction of — 
the vernacular names. The names have been collected from a multi- — 
tude of sources, including Roxburgh (who often gives the Telugu, and — 
frequently Van Rheede’s Malayalam, name), Beddome, Brandis, 
Gamble, Cameron’s trees, Elliott’s Flora Andrica, and his list at the’ 
end of Drury’s plants, the names from Volume III of McLean’s Madras — 
