250 FOREST TREES. 



In dry places a stunted tree 15 — 20 feet high. The 

 foliage is deep green, and turns red before falling." 



Srandis. 



The same authority writes that the fine close- 

 grained wood seasons well, is durable, and used for 

 furniture. Planters sometimes call it red cedar. 

 " In rich land, this tree is generally left and agrees 

 well with coffee. The foliage is somewhat dense 

 however and in moist situations the coffee grows 

 very slowly under it. "Wood is red, easily cut with 

 the axe, and is very apt to split after being squared. 

 It is used for rough purposes and for making 

 pounding-poles." Graham Anderson. 



The vernacular name indicates that some product 

 of the tree affords manure, this is possibly the leaf, 

 which is said to be abundant and changeable in 

 colour. Botanical specimens and seeds would be 

 acceptable at head quarters. 

 502 Antidesma Ghsesembilla, GiEETN. Kan. Pullam- 



purasi gida. 



Fig -Wight Ic. t. 820, 821. 



References.— 2^^. of Brit. hid. ; Diet, of Econ. 



Prod, of Ind. 



Confined to the deciduous tracts of Mysore, where 

 it rarely attains to more than a large shrub. Found 

 atKankanhalh and elsewhereatintervals,butnotvery 

 common. Leaves alternate, entire, stipulate, round- 

 ish to obovate or variable; average blade 3 x 2 in., 

 young herbaceous parts rusty-tomentose. Flowers 

 dioecious, minute, in terminal branched spikes. 

 Fruit subglobose, the size of a black currant ; eaten 

 by children and possesses an agreeable subacid 

 flavour, produced in ample reddish clusters near the 

 ends of the shoots. Wood small, but hard, reddish, 

 close-grained and durable; weight 49 lb. per cubic 

 foot. The scarcity of this species is probably due 

 to the want of fertility in the seed. 



