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12. GUTTIPER^. 



{CalopTiyllum, 



Oil from tho seede used in medicine, for burning and for painting wood 

 work. Wood used in the construction of native pattimara and other 

 craft. (Knees and bent timbers.) 



2. C. tomentosum, Wgt. Ic. t. 110; Fl.Br. I. 1. 274; Bedd. Fl. 

 Sylv. 22. a, angusHfoUum, Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 32 ; of Roxb. (?) 

 0. elahim^ Bedd. Fl. Syly. 1. c. 22. Poon Spar, Sirpooa Tree. Nagari 

 M. ; Shri honay, surhoni, K. 



Evergreen forests of the W, Peninsula from the Konkan southwards. 

 Flowers during the cold season, January-February. Fruit ripe during 

 June-July. This fine straight, cylindrical stemmed tree attains a 

 great size in the forests near the Mulamune Ghat of N. Kanara. 

 Trees 150 feet high with a girth of 15 feet at breast height are not 

 uncommon. The bark is yellowish with long wavy vertical fissures 

 which readily distinguishes the tree on the ghats, where it is common. 

 Wood red, lustrous, coarse-grained. Pores large or medium sized in 

 irregular lines or groups. Medullary rays exceedingly fine, crossed by 

 irregular wavy broken lines of dark red tissue. Weighs about 35 lbs. to 

 the cubic foot. Used for masts and spars of ships. In Kanara the Public 

 Works Department use the wood in the construction of bridges, prin- 

 cipally on the ghat roads leading to the coast (Gairsoppah Ghat). The 

 seeds yield an oil used in Ceylon for burning in lamps. 



3. C. Wightianum, Wall. Cat. 4847 ; Fl. Br, I. 1. 274 ; Bedd. Fl. 

 Sylv. t. 90. C. spuriwn, Choisy ; Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 32 ; £ohbi, M, ; 

 Irai^ K. 



Western Peninsula Ghats from the Konkan to Travancore. Common 

 along the banks of North Kanara rivers. It has a very characteristic 

 bark. Fl. Dec. Fr. March. 



Bark very thick. Rhytidome deeply fissured, showing yellow plates of 

 periderm ; inner bark red with much juice. Wood red coloured, hard 

 and heavy. Pores large and moderate sized. Medullary rays very fine, 

 rather indistinct. Numerous bands of concentric and anastomosing 

 lines of tissue. Weighs 54 lbs. to the cubic foot. Used by the natives 

 of N. Kanara for building purposes. The edges of the leaves of 

 this i^ee are often transformed into large hollow irregularly shaped, 

 winged, galls. This disease is very common in the N. Kanara Bobbi 

 trees. 



4. ME SUA, L. 



Trees. Leaves opposite^ rigidly coriaceous^ veins inconspicuous^, very 

 numerous. Flowers large, polygamous, or hermaphrodite, axillary, 

 solitary. Sepals and petals 4 each, imbricate. Stamens numerous,; 

 free or connate at the base. Ovary 2-celled ; style long ; stigma 

 peltate. Ovules 2 in each cell, erect. Fruit woody, 1-4-seeded; seeds 

 with a thin fragile testa, exarillate. 



