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good. Planters are no-w fairly agreed that the 

 species named in the following list afford the best 

 shade for coffee, but for obvious reasons it is im- 

 possible to single out one tree and say it excels in 

 every locality and under all conditions of treatment. 

 Such a tree is not to be found iu nature. But in 

 giving the names of popular shade-trees, some at- 

 tempt has been made to classify them according to 

 their supposed order of merit or precedence : — 



1 Ficus glomerata. Atti. Not bo good when aged. 



2 Dalhergia latifolia. Biti. 



3 Terminalia helerica. Tare. 



4 Pterocarpus marsupium- Honne. 



5 Acrocarpus fraxinifolius. Howiige. 



6 Albizzia odoratissima. Biivara. 



7 Artocarpus integrifolia. Halasu, Not good when aged. 



8 Lagerstroemia microcarpa. 



9 Cedrela toona. Noge. 



10 FicUS bengalensis, Alada mara. Not very suitable in poor 



land. 



11 f' tuberculata- 



12 P. mysorensis- Goni. 



Liberian coffee, Goffea Liberica, has also been esta- 

 blished on some of the estates. Left to itself, it 

 becomes a small tree. 



335 Morinda citrifolia var. bracteata. 



A shrub or small evergreen tree with large glossy 

 leaves and white fragrant flovrers, the latter pro- 

 duced in a peculiar cone-like inflorescence. Culti- 

 vated in the Lal-Bagh, but not known to be indi- 

 genous to any part of the province. The specific 

 form IS known to afford the greater part of the Al 

 dye of Indian commerce, a product which is obtain- 

 ed from the root of the plant. Morinda umbellata, 

 Lmn. is also cultivated in the Botanical Gardens, 

 and may be indigenous to the Malnad. The roots 



