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The entire-leaved elm. A large deciduous tree of 

 tlie drier Malnad. Abundant in Hassan, Kadur, and 

 Shimoga, throughout the mixed and deciduous 

 belts. "Wood yellow or light brown with no defini- 

 tion of heartwood, soft, open-grained, but strong. > 

 "Weight 37 lb. per cubic foot. Mostly utilised for 

 making charcoal,but also for house-building, country 

 carts, and occasionally for carving. The green 

 leaves and young shoots are greedily eaten by 

 cattle, although the smell is offensive. The whitish- 

 grey bark falls ofE in large scales. 



Cultivation.— This tree requires good drainage 

 as the roots are very impatient of stagnant water. 

 Sandy soil or loam on a gravelly subsoil is suita- 

 ble. Propagate from Seeds and cuttings. 



530 Celtis Wightii, Planch. Tel. Telia— kaka—musliti. 

 :Fig.— Wight. Ic. t. 1969. 



Reference.— Gam/!). Man. Timb, 343. 



A large or medium sized tree of the "Western 

 Ghats, where it is abundant on the lower slopes 

 and in sholas. Branches stiff, glabrous or tomentose. 

 Leaves leathery, turning yellow in age, bifarious, 

 straight, oblong or elliptic-oblong, with three con- 

 spicuous nerves from base to apex. Stipules peltate, 

 caducous. Flower pale bluish. Drupe racemed, 

 ellipsoid, half an inch long, often 2-cuspidate, scarlet 

 to black. Wood said to be close-grained and 

 durable. "Weight 53 lb, per cubic foot. This spe- 

 cies is much confounded with the " charcoal tree," 

 Trema orientalis. But the latter is smaller in all 

 its parts, of shorter duration and having the under- 

 side of the leaf covered by a silvery pubescence. 



531 Trema orientalis, Blume. Kan. Bendu mara, 



Grorklu, Goorcnl. 



-Fig.— Wight Ic. t. 1971. 



References.— if i(r2. For.FI. 469. Bid. ofEcon. 

 Prod, of Ind. ; Fl of Brit. Ind. 



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