254 GODAVARl FORESTS. 



moved, owing to the fact that no two of the village carpenters 

 give the same name for a sleeper." 



" Of the 487 sleepers examined, as many as 458 are reported 

 to be of unauthorised woods. This is, of course, owing to the 

 ignorance of the only persons the engineers could procure to 

 name the woods, or possibly to their being bought over by the 

 contractor. To my personal knowledge, the sleeper-contractors 

 tried every expedient to pass bad woods upon us ; and I have 

 myself been more than once deceived by sleepers which were 

 brought to me carefully sawn of the exact dimensions, of great 

 weight, and apparent hardness. The carpenter gave names 

 which were authorised, and I passed them ; these I afterwards 

 found were of Tani wood,* and had for a long time been steeped 

 in water to make them heavy and solid looking. After a short 

 exposure in the road, they dried, and began almost immediately 

 to decay. Of the authorised woods removed, there are only 29 

 out of 487; and of these 29 only 2 were rotten, the remainder 

 being split." The jury cannot doubt but that much good will be 

 effected by the attention given to this subject in the general and 

 local exhibitions of this Presidency. 



A list, prepared with much care by Lieut. Beddome, exhibits 

 several new kinds of wood found in the Godavari forests, and is 

 appended to this Eeport, the jury being of opinion that its pub- 

 lication is calculated to be extremely useful. 



T. T. Peaks, Reporter. 



TELUG-U CATALOGUE OF TEEES f 



Indigenous in the Godavari Forests and the drears between Bhadrachellum 

 and Condapilly. By Lieut. S. H. Beddome, Asst. Conservator of Forests. 



Ari (Bauhinia racemosa). Wood not used — slow matches are 

 made from the fibre. 



* Terminalia Belerica. 



t " Flora Andhrica ; a Vernacular and Botanical List of Plants in the 

 Telugu Districts of the N. Circars, " printed at Madras in 1859. By "Walter 

 Elliot, Esq., M.O.S. ; contains much valuable information. 



