Pitt 
OcTOBER 17, 1874.] 
GARDENERS 
CHRONICLE. 
491 
brownish ee, colour, used likewise for canoes ; 
a magnificent tree, producing a 
n as Taroo 
al 
wood 
ampaca, previous 
e genus ere, 
yield Aa woods, 
E 
ibed aš 
cay 
of India, Bur 
y Archipelago, and =e ealtivkted 
® for the sake of i rad fruit, which is eaten as an article of 
aggary Hills r whe Posse it = Travancore, and 
a beautiful pallsh, 
wood ; it yields 
iors = 
1 Canara, a 
4 oe is Sg sold a yn os = a eee 
colour to alcohol, but not to 
and to 
s of the Prsetlency ; 
a istricts where it especi: ally 
k abounds it erys a girth of Ate Bert 
heavy, of a bloc eenish black 
“colour, sometimes beautifully minal or t a 3 its 
trees grow to such a size that 
- planks 4 feet a. are nine and this after the 
ed 
S ), 
eg ran, principally in 
as far north as the Punjab. 
—_ 
even in inthe thickly wooded provin 
on has to be made for projected Tines of 1 of fail: 
way, snd Ban a fuel reserves ha 
ht 
er 
the Segal deman 
one vast son of ike, d for fuel 
_ of any organised steam itself felt 
‘ z w dy steamers have required large supplies 
<a ott 
heating power not es sufficiently great to recom- 
mend i = the river steamers. Prosopis spici- 
forests sel 2 borer extent in Sind, 
h 
69 me heegt; moug - ex 
the se 
ns have oon ~ ap pecans 
e in this direc 
3. 
Bo 
lected for local use 
districts, but quite inferior- 
Sou India.” 
to that of Ceni 
**Soda, as obtained from the waste lands by burn- 
ing the plants of the Salsolaceze wt can hardly be 
called fore: n infe ochine 
o the complete extirpation oa a oa grace o 
r (O puntia) which ha d threa 
ergy: isa 
the plant on wik 4 t fi e minor forest pro- 
ducts yield a large revenue in the sub- Hi malay an and 
an d Garwhal. A s = of revenue has been estab- 
pects 
e may collect these products, 
sas ie lace oe s situated that certain routes on 
which toll-Rouses £ wales re coe and at these his 
collection is over! baad 
The #lora Sylvatica contains a figure of every im- 
aah tree of Southera orp and cart many 
w to sc at least one of every 
k have occupied C el Beddome’ the 
last five years, to the exclusion [os every other pursuit 
cept his regular It is indeed sur- 
prising that he should h 
e accomplished so much 
pioen occupied with ah patter and poaap ating 
It cia occur to some that, prepared as it is specially 
= the use of officers in the Madras F est Depart- 
ent, the work is too bulky, and that it need not 
kan ‘included the trees of Ceylon ; so many hese, 
however, have n found by Colonel Beddome in 
the southern ghats of the as Presid that 
few arborescent genera of Ceylon are wantin, ing tp 
Den g= Bamert- of the floras has 
vestigations of our author and Mr. 
ka aites, ray wai of whose work we find in the ora 
Sylvatica. 
uropean argik has to deal with com ara- 
as, for eps = 
Again, the G 
amar all. the Pig of 
as yielding valuable 
nic, whic, 
by he wa ming sos pe more ny sate 
this pate ; Myrobalans, "the fruits ee p RRR TIN 
Chebula os T. Bellerica, bee} es for tanning 
purposes ; the red powder ned from the 
capsules of "Rottlen nce and ca. ‘both as a dye 
and as a vermi 
(To be continued.) 
Aotices of Pooks. 
The Flora Sylvatica of Southern India. 
Lieutenant-Colonel Beddome. 
Forests, Madras, 
By 
Conservator of 
a 
less important trees not 
figured i in a larger plates 
hen D ight ‘etait the nage of 
botanical risk in India he encountered extraordi- 
nay al wea ve z them through ve 
allied to 
“on such subjects that Colonel Bed p 
the "Wire age for the olioen ol his aai ary 
and we hope e publication of this work by the 
es will be useful, not only to forest 
but also to botanists, and we observe $ t rd are 
quoted by Dr. Hovkee in his Flora of British 
india, and by 
Dr. Brandis in the pede ted oF 
shapes and Central India, We unders hat it 
to reprint the letterpress or sie 
Manual hereafter, when narod earn ges the 
ranges col on sifted. The 
addition of echnical rer s the specific 
ch 
gravity of the voi t the pr operties “of — various 
timbers, &c., will greatly increase its va 
The plates in the October grong of the 
Biviciioad Magazine are devoted to 
pirs 
the following 
species : ca artocarpifolia, a curious piat, closely 
which is occasionally shown 
O 
dark 
s 
unde 
maculatu 
columns, as has also Citrus japoni e Kum Quat 
Tanva undulata, — honk reas by Mr. 
Maw, has rosy purple flow 
—— The last number of the Belgique piia 
contains a list of the Tacsonias cultivated in garı 
together with a coloured figure of T. insignis pies 
from that in the = ‘ist ; some notes on the botanical 
grogis phy of B y M. Liais ; ; “supplementary 
note on Hudni ; note, ipia oloured figure, on. 
eri Som a ere (Hort.) ; a similar notice of 
sia Jonghei, 
species Eonar Brazil &e A large 
resti 
