MYSORE AND OOORe. 187 



The wood is highly valued by native turners on 

 account of its ivory-white colour and suitability for 

 the lathe. It enters largely into the manufacture 

 of the celebrated Channapatna toys, and to the 

 wooden images found in temples. 



" The leaves of this plant, which turn black when 

 dry, afford a kind of indigo called in Mysore Pala 

 , Indigo. An account of the preparation of this dye 

 appears in Buchanan's " Journey through Mysore 

 &c., " 473. The coagulated milky juice forms a kind 

 of caoutchouc ; the wood is valued by turners who 

 call it Dudhi ; ' milk wood.," Pharmacographia Indica. 

 The preparation of dye from the leaves of 

 Beppale is an old but limited industry in Mysore. 

 The bark and seeds are used medicinally, and are 

 sold in the local bazaars. 



Cultivation. — Easily propagated from seed, and 

 quite hardy in all but absolutely barren soils. It 

 is a suitable subject for poor soils and dry localities, 

 although under the extremes of these conditions, it 

 will rarely attain to more than a shrub. 



379 Wrightiatomentosa, Roem. Kan. Kadn ganagalu. 

 Fig.- Wight Ic. t. 443 and 1296. 

 Reference-— JF/. of Brit. Ind. 



A shrub or very small treeof the dry hills and plains. 

 Herbaceous portions densely tomentose. Flowers 

 larger than in the last species, 1 in. diam., pale 

 yellowish with orange coronal scales. Full of a milky 

 juice ; and the sweet-scented flowers are used in puja. 



380 Nerium odorum, Soland. Kan. Ganagalu., Kani- 



gilTl. 



Fig.— Bat. Plates Lal-Bagh Golleetion. 

 References.— P^arm. Ind. ; Diet, of Econ. Prod, 

 of Ind. 

 The sweet-scented oleander. This stout ever- 

 green shrub, of which there are several varieties,, 

 is both wild and cultivated in Mysore. It is 



