644 The Turaee and Outer Mountains of Kumaoon* 



1500 to 2500 feet above the sea, from Burmdeo to Tupoobun on the 

 Ganges.) 



Ficus 2. (Luducca of Roxburgh ; common about Almorah as "Ka- 

 bra.") 



Ficus 3. (Chincha, Roxburgh, also common as a shrub in Ku- 

 maoon, in the low vallies, and in the forests at the foot of the moun- 

 tains, it becomes a small spreading tree, probably the F. squamosa of 

 Roxburgh.) 



Ficus 4. (Macrophylla.) 



Kaiphul. (Myrica sapida. From some external resemblance in 

 fruit, the strawberry has its mountain name of " Kuphulia.") 



Place unknown, Linnsean system. 



Sterculia villosa. The " Ooddal" of Kumaoon, (Gooddala of Gurh- 

 wal,) and known by the same name down to Assam ; the inner layers of 

 the bark making excellent rope. (Griffith, in J. A. S. April 1839.) We 

 have also in the Catalogue of woods, J. A. S. for April 1833, Odla given 

 as the Gwalpara name of Sterculia urens, the bark of which is there said 

 to afford a coarse rope used in catching wild elephants. Most pro- 

 bably alluding to the " Oodal" of Assam, Sterculia villosa, vide 

 Journal of Agri. and Hort. Soc. of Bengal, Vol. VI. 139. The word 

 is Sanscrit, and is explained by Wilson, Cordia myxa or latifolia ; but 

 the etymology from Ood, large, and dul, to split, tear, divide, must 

 strike every one who sees the process as a strong presumption in favor 

 of the existing usage of the term. In Khurwa-ooddal, Kumaoon, 

 Khurdala, Gurhwal, we have a modification of the term to express 

 Dr. Royle's yellow variety of Sterculia coccinea. 



