168 Catalogue of Indian Woods. [Apriz, 
five hundred specimens were placed in our possession. Here they 
were examined, and were cut up into three or four sets of specimens 
more or less complete. Some of them were found to be worm- 
eaten; and several of those from Nipal being only portions of 
small branches, are not ina state very favourable for shewing the 
qualities of wood with reference to its value as timber. Their 
native names, and the scientific ones of those that have any, as well as 
the uses to which they are applied by the people of the countries where 
they grow, were supplied by Dr. Wallich*, partly from his own observa- 
tion, and partly from a catalogue of Burmese woods collected in 1827 
by A. Maingy, Esq., and presented by him to Dr. Wallich. Some notices 
have likewise been obtained from a catalogue of woods sent by Dr. 
Francis Hamilton (late Buchanan), from Gualpara in Assam, on the 
Burrampooter, and which were put into the hands of Mr. James Kyd, 
master builder to the Hon. East India Company at Calcutta, for exami- 
nation. These notices are distinguished by the letters Ham., though 
some of Dr. Wallich’s are intermixed with them. The observations on 
the structure of some of the woods from Nipal were made by myself, 
and relate chiefly to the longitudinal fibre, to the medullary rays, to the 
longitudinal tubes, and to the annual Jayers. For some practical 
observations the Society is indebted to the carpenter employed in cut- 
ting up the specimens. 
A. Arkin, Sec. 
CATALOGUE OF INDIAN WOODS. 
1 Acacia mollis, fr. Nipal. ' 
A large tree: wood yellowish white, shining, coarse, rather soft.—Sp.t 
2 inch. diam. Fibres and rays of the same colour, the latter very distinct : 
tubes large, 
2 Acacia fragrans, fr. Nipal. 
A large tree.—Sp. 2 inch. diam. Wood glossy, coarse: a bad specimen. 
3 Acacia. Joolchumahl, N.+ fr. Nipal. 
Tree very large: wood excellent for chests and boxes. 
4 Acacia. Popeeah, B.§ fr. Tavoy. 
A very large tree: the wood used for posts, bows, and rollers for ginning 
cotton. A 
5 Acacia. Paingadoo, fr. Tavoy. 
* It has been thought better to leave the spelling of the native names as in the ori- 
ginal catalogue, since it is difficult to know in many cases how they ought to be ren- 
dered orthoepically.—Ep. 
tT Sp. the individual specimen examined. 
+ N. Newar, the language of the Hind conquerors of Nipal. 
§ 6. The Burmese language. 
