MYSORE AiiD OOOBG. ^1^ 



but this is open to question, as the stems and 

 branches are thickly armed with recurved prickles. 

 Cultivation.— Planted in good land, Lantana 

 spreads from offsets and seedlings with astonishing 

 rapidity, and becomes a pest in the course of a few 

 years. The shrub should, therefore, be carefully 

 eliminated from all situations where it would mono- 

 polise useful land, or retard the progress of other 

 plants of greater utility. Hedges are usually laid 

 down from cuttings of the matured wood, but the 

 seeds germinate, and are no doubt widely scattered 

 by birds and vermin. 

 450 Tectona grandis, Linn. Kan. Tega, Tegu, Tegada 



riara, Tyagada mara. 



Fig.— Bo^. Plates Lal-Bagh Collection. Bedd. 

 Fl. Sylv. i. 250. 

 The t^ak tree. In this province, the most extensive 

 plantations of teak are found in the Heggaddevan- 

 kotie TalTik of the Mysore District. But' there are 

 also considerable plantations in the Districts of 

 Shimoga, Hassan, and Kadur, the whole forming a 

 total area of nearly 4,000 acres. The adjoining 

 proyipce of Coorg is also rich in teak. But the 

 South Indian tree appears to attain its greatest per- 

 fection on the Ananiallay mountains, where, at an 

 elevation of 2,600 feet, Beddome found specimens 

 22 feet in girth, 90 in length to the first bough, and 

 calctuated to be 200 years old. These dimensions 

 are not attained in any part of Mysore or Coorg, 

 but a tree recently felled at Kaken'kote, to provide 

 sectional exhibits for the Chicago Exposition, mea- 

 sured 4 feet in diameter, the specimens l3'eing per- 

 fectly sound. The teak tree clings to the "W"6stern 

 Ghats, and it is only upon or near to certain ranges, 

 at elevations rising from 2,000 to 3,000 feet, where 

 growth is not stunted. The finest specimens attain 

 a height of 150 feet, and present a stately appear- 

 ance while in leaf and flower. The following 

 statement gives the position and approximate area 



