20 I'OEEST TREES. 



37 Poeciloneuron pauciflorum, Bedd. ^an. Ballagl? 



Fig.-Bedd. Fl. Syh. t. 93. ' 



'References— Gamb. Man. Timb. ; Fl. of Brit. 

 Inch 



A smaller tree tlian the foregoing and nsually 

 smaller in its prominent parts. The flowers are 

 not plentiful, and there is a want of symmetry in 

 the divisions of the calyx and corolla, which will 

 enable forest officials to distinguish between this 

 and the foregoing species. Sepals 4, of which 2 are 

 enlarged, petals 6 in number. Fruit obpyriform 

 when young, eventually the size and form of the 

 large Jamoon, " jum nerah kai." This tree is 

 plentiful in the South Tinnevelly and Travancore 

 districts, where Beddome found it on the banks of 

 streams, but it is unknown to what extent it is pro- 

 duced in Mysore. The wood is described as being 

 exceedingly hard, heavy, and red in colour. Walk- 

 ing-sticks are said to be made from it, but this re- 

 quires verification. The celebrated ' Ballagi' stick 

 is the product of one or other of these two species^ 

 and not improbably of both. 



The Poeciloneurons are reproductive from seed. 

 Their cultivation on the plains would prove un- 

 satisfactory. 



VIII. DIPTEROCARPEiE. 



38 Dipterocarpus turbinatus, Gaertn. Kan. Wali 



valra, Cballani ? Guga ? 



'^^S—Sedcl Forest Bej). 1864-5 p. 17. 



References.— Dirt, of Econ. Prod of Ind ■ 

 Pharm. Indica. ; Fl. of Brit. Ind. 

 The wood-oil tree. 



