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FOREST TEEES. 



picture frames. Weight 40 to 50 lb. per cubic foot, 

 but always small. 



XXIII. RHAMNEiE. 



157 Ventilago madraspatana, GiERTN. Kan. Popli. 



mg.^Wight Ic. 163. 



References— Brand. For. Fl. 96. Pharm. Ind. 



A large scandent slirub of East Mysore, where it 

 reaches to the top of the highest trees. The root- 

 bark (Vembadam bark) affords a well known dye of 

 an orange-red colour ; and constitutes an important 

 minor product of the State forests. It also yields 

 a fibre of some repute. The local market value of 

 Popli bark is Es. 1-12-0 to Es. 2 per maund of 

 25 lbs. The cultivation of this product should be 

 encouraged in the maidan districts of Mysore, 

 where it thrives well and requires hardly any 

 care-taking. The plant is propagated from seed. 



158 Zizyphus Jujuba, Lamk. Kan. Telachi, YelcW. 



Yig.—WigU Ic. t. 99. Bedd. FL Sylv. 149. 



References. — Diet. of Econ. Prod, of Ind.; Brand. 

 For. m. 86. 



The Bhere-fruit tree. Armed, spreading, 30 — 50 

 feet. Leaves deciduous in the cold weather ; young 

 parts covered with a dense fuscous tomentum. 

 " There are many cultivated varieties, differing 

 greatly in the size and shape of the leaves, as also 

 in the size and nature of the fruit, of which the 

 most remarkable is Bdgeworth's var. Eysudricus, 

 with erect or spreading not drooping branches, ■ 

 obtuse, ovate, oblong or orbicular leaves, glabrous I 

 or slightly tomentose beneath, and long petioles. 

 This, according to Aitchison, is always raised by 

 grafts." M. A. Lawsonin Fl. of Brit. Lid. 



