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This tree sends out largfe roots to a distaiiQe of 

 over fifty yards. When left in virgin soil,_ cqffeo 

 will grow right up to its stem, but sometimes a 

 complete circle of coffee dies out around it, and iti is 

 almost impossible to grow vacanqies. 



The wood is tremendously hard, and almost m- 

 destructible under water. Sawyers refuse to saw it. 

 It is used for beams and posts, has a fibrous texture, 

 and generally several axes are ruined in felling a 

 single large tree. It riiakes splendid helves for 

 axes, adzes, &c." 



Gamble confirms the statement that tTie wood is 

 very hard, a condition which, with its q'uality of 

 great endurance under water, should be of interest 

 to Engineers. 



Brandis speaks well of the wood, adding that the 

 bark, leavies, flowei's^, and fruit are used in native 

 ' medicine. The fragrSint flowers are possibly gathered 

 for domestic and teinple offerings, althbugli they 

 are not so popular in this respect as the rosy- 

 purple flowers of &'. suaveoleiis. 



GiiItivEitioii.— In local cultivation, the species ^rows 

 somewhat sloi^ft'ly^ and tlfeonly advantage possessed 

 over S. .sztjzvei^fefts/is,' that it is scarcely ever quite 

 bare of leaf, rropagation' is the same for both trees, 

 as also the treatment i^ti general. 



i^^ Stereb'spermuiTj xylocarpum, Wight. Kan. 



Konana tombu mara, Ghansirig. 



'Fi^—Bot. Plates Ldl-Bagh Cdlle'StiSn. J^ed!d. 

 m. 'Bylv. t. 70. 



References^— P/i arm. Ind. ; Did. of Econ. Prod, 

 of Ind:; Fl. of Brit Ind. 

 A deciduous tree of small or medium size accord- 

 ing to position. Indigenous to the hills and culti- 

 vated in the Botanical Gardens. Leaves bipinnate, 

 very large, 2 — '^ feet, light gi-een in colour. Flowers 

 in terminal, erect panicles, whicli precede the 



