MYSORE AND COOEG. 



10 Polyalthia cerasoides, Benth. Kan. San kesare, 



Vnbbina ? 



Eeferences.— .FZ. of Brit. Ind.; Did. of Econ. 

 Prod, of Ind. 



This elegant tree is mostly confined to the drj 

 forest tracts skirting the foot of the Ghats and- 

 projecting eastward into the plains. It is readily- 

 detected among other trees by its greenish flowers, 

 which are very fragrant and appear in great profu- 

 sion towards the end of March. Timber close- 

 grained, durable, and used extensively in the Bombaj 

 Presidency. District forest officers have not in- 

 cluded the species in their lists, unless it is under 

 some vernacular name which has not, as yet, been 

 referred to P. cerasoides. In all such cases good 

 botanical specimens should be submitted for identi- 

 fication. There are. probably one or two additional 

 species of Polyalthia represented in the western 

 forests of the State, but their names are withheld 

 for the present. Taken as a group the Polyalthias 

 are perhaps more ornamental than strictly useful 

 trees. Their culture has also to be confined to the 

 evergreen forest ranges or, in a few instances, to the 

 seaside. They all produce fertile seeds. 



11 Anona squamosa, Linn. Kan. Duranji, ffiw. Sita- 



phal. 



Fig.— Bat. Plates Lal-Bagh Collection ; Bot. Mag. 

 3095. 



References.— P^arm. Ind. ; Econ. PI. Jamaica ; 

 Fl. of Brit. Ind. 

 The custard apple tree of this country, and the 

 sweet-sop of the West Indies, from whence it was 

 originally introduced to the east. Extensively cul- 

 tivated in gardens and running wild in hedgerows 

 and woods, where it forms a nurse to sandal and 

 other valuable trees. Leaves alternate, petiolate, 

 oblong-obtuse, or rarely acute, glaucous underneath. 



