228 FOREST TREES. 



■would therefore be doing a service to science, if they 

 could settle this question, or at least submit such, 

 material as would enable the Kew authorities to, 

 settle it. 



The vernacular name, Ramanadihe, or Bama's 

 areca-nut, is obviously a misnomer, as, if B-ama had 

 any claim to the designation, the latter should clearly 

 be Rama's nutmeg and not his areca-nut. The 

 areca-nut belongs to the natural order Palmacese, 

 which comprises an entirely different class of trees. 

 The species under notice attains 100 feet with an 

 immense buttressed trunk. Fruit oblong, nearly 4 in. 



467 Myristica Farquhariana, Wall. 

 Fig.— Bedd. Fl. Sylv. t. 270. 



This treeis said to be plentiful on the South Canara i 

 and Coorg Ghats. M. attenuata, Wall.— Kg. Bedd. 

 Fl. Sylv. t. 271. — should be searched for in the same 

 locality. Nothing is known of the timber afforded 

 by these trees. The genus Myristica is confined to 

 steamy woods where the rainfall is heavy and the 

 atmosphere moist. Such being the conditions for 

 healthy development, it cannot be hoped that culti- 

 vation would succeed on the arid plains. 



LX. LAURINE^. 



468 Cinnamomumzeylanicum,BRBGN. Kan. Lavanga- 



patte mara, Daloliini, Nisane. 



Fig.- Wight Ic. t. 123, 129, 134; Bedd. Fl- 

 Sylv. t. 242 ; Bentl. of Trim. Med. PI. t. 224. 

 Heferences.-Dict. ofEcon. Prod, of Ind.;Pha.rm. 

 Ind. 



A small evergreen tree, young leaves and shoots 

 having beautiful reddish and carmine tints. Indigo- , 

 nous to Ceylon, Burmah, and the Decca^ Peninsula ■ 

 Cultivated m the Lal-Bagh. The liber or inner 

 bark affords the Cingalese cinnamon of oommero^, 

 and the aromatic leaves are extensively used in 



