98 tOTMST VR'am 



Native medicine. This valuable tree is reserved by 

 Crovernmeilt. 



Cultivation—. Tbe seeds are occasionally unfertile, 

 but collected from Healthy trees and treated as direct- 

 fed for the preceding species, they will germinate. 

 Th3 outfer zone of the Malnad, where the rainfall in- 

 creases trbm 60 to 100 inches per annum appears 

 to be the most favourable situation for this tree. 

 Permanent saplings should stand at 30 feet apart. 

 204 Portgamia glabra, Vent. Kan. Honge. 



Fj^.-Bot. Plates LahBagh Golledkn. Bedd. 

 FI. &ylv. t. 177. 



References.-ri>r«»-«/ Z7. Pl.;Bkt. of£!wn..Prod. 



of Ind. 



The Indian beech. A deciduous or subdeciduous 

 tree of moist situations, especially near the sea- 

 coast. Ooimnon in Mysore and Coorg, where it is well 

 known and much planted as an avenue tree. With 

 shimng green eaves, and pendent racemes of 

 lilac-rose to nearly pure white flowers, half con- 

 ceal^ mtheleBfy,-foiiag:e,it is admirably adapS 1 



W i' ? "^^ ^rPx°'^- '^^^ ^^^' «^meJ into ^M ' 

 leaf early m March when other trees are mostiy 



fhXTtn^f '''^'^ ^^ object of admiration 3 

 shelter to the weary traveller. 



Wood tough and.light, weighing about 40 lb per 

 cubic foot, white when cut, but turning ye Won 

 exposure, coarse-grained, fibrous and ^t durabl^ I 

 said to improve when seasoned in water LarS '^ 

 trunks are pmed for waddar cart-wheels HonS 

 oil, expressed from the '=!PPrl i= o \^'^'T, -?-0«ge 



mediciL and ligh?4£riv ever? ^^^^^^ 

 is used in nativl pWimov rvf ^ P^""* °^ ^^^ *^^ 

 cure of rheumSsm and S ? "^Pr^% ^ ^^ 

 of the tree arelS So tW^^dv 'fi S'"^ ^^"^^^ 

 xna^ure, with good resultsloSop'tU^ JS 



