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natives about their huts (Chevalier, Bull. Soc. Nat. D’Accl. 
France, 1912, p. 240). May be propagated by layers or cuttings. 
Trctona, Linn. f. 
Tectona grandis Linn. f. Suppl. Pl. (1781) p. 151. 
A large deciduous tree, with quadrangular branchlets. Leaves 
large, blade 1-2 ft. long, correspondingly’ broad, cuneate, 
narrowed into the petiole—1-12 in., rough on the upper surface, 
densely grey or brown tomentose on the under surface. Flowers 
white, in erect panicles 1-3 ft. long. Fruit hard, bony, 3-1 in. 
diam., enclosed in a spongy covering about 1 in. thick, the whole 
covered with the persistent calyx, a loose papery brown envelope, 
resembling that of Physalis. Seeds 1-3, small. 
Ill.—Rheede, Hort. Mal. iv. t. 27; Rumpf, Amb. iii. t. 18; 
Gaertner, Fruct. Sem. Pl. i. t. 57; Lam. Encycl. t. 136 (T'heka); 
Roxb. Pl. Corom. t. 6; Blanco, F1. Filip.t. 114; Bocquillon, Verbe- 
naceae, t. 10, ff. 11-20; Brandis, Illustr. For. Fl. India, t. 44; 
Talbot, For. Fl. Bombay, ii. p. 347, f. 4 
Report, Affor. Togo (1912), f. 1 (habit, tree 10 years old at Lome), 
ff. 20-24, 31, 32. 
Vernac. names.—Tekku, Tek, Teka, or Teku (India, Gamble) ; 
Ticla, Dalondan, Yate, Calayate or Yati (Philippines, Ahern) 
Kuyon (Burma, Brandis); Mai Sak (Siam, Mus. Kew).—Teak, 
Indian, Siam and Burma Teak. 
Native of India, Burma and Siam. Cultivated in Assam, 
Bengal, Java, Sumatra, Southern Nigeria, Togoland, etc. 
The leaves yield a red dye and they are used as plates for packing 
and for thatching. 
arpus sp.); g 
Teak ” (Dryobalanops aromatica), but although good these woods 
have not the same sterling qualities as true Teak. “ Tampinis ” 
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