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Wild in the base of the Eastern Himalayas, Assam, Chittagong, 

 Burma, Western Peninsula and the Andamans. Probably may be 

 found in the Southern Maratha Conntry, Dharwar district, in decidn- 

 ons forests. Sir G. King has never seen wild specimens of this species 

 from the Western Peninsula. Fr. ripe H. S. 



6. F- retusa. Linn. Mant. 129 ; Fl. Br. I. 5. 511 ; Brandis For. Fl. 

 417; Bedd. Fl. Sylv. 323; JJrostigma retusum 3knd nitidn7iifT>a.lz. & Gibs. 

 Bomb. Fl. 241, 242. Sa7idru'k, pilala, Vern. ; Pili mara^pilal^ K. : Finical, 

 Hind. 



Eastern Himalaya from Kumaon to Bengal, Assam, South India, the 

 Deccan peninsula, Burma and the Andamans. 



Throughout the presidency, commonly planted along road-sides* A 

 moderate-sized tree affording dense shade. Bark rather smooth, dark- 

 coloured. Wood light, reddish-grey, close-grained, moderately hard or 

 soft, mottled. Pores small or moderate sized, few. Medullary rays mode- 

 rately broad. Narrow bands of soft, reddish tissue. Weighs 35 lbs. to the 

 cub. ft. Used for fuel only. Leaves broad, obovate, often very obtuse, 

 shining above, paler beneath, petiole shoii: in. Aeriol roots often very 

 numerous, like whipcord. Sometimes, but rarely, in the Southern Maratha 

 Country the trees are without aerial roots. 



7. F. Talboti, King. Sp. Fic. 51. t. 63; Fl. Br. L 5. 512. Attimara, 

 K. 



Evergreen forests of Belgaum, on the southern ghdts of North Kanara, 

 common in moist forests. Fr. ripe cold season. A large grey, smooth- 

 barked epiphytic tree with few or no aerial roots. Juice from young 

 branchlets yellowish. Bark grey, smooth, the gTeen-cell layer developed 

 like in F. TsieJa ; milky juice abundant. 



8. F. nervosa. Roth. Xov. Sp. 3-38 ; Fl. Br. L 5. 512 ; Bedd. Fl. 

 Sylv. 223. 



Sikkim and Bhotan Himalaya, Assam, Burma, the Malay and Deccan 

 peninsulas and Ceylon. In the evergreen forests of Xorth Kanara from 

 Supa southwards. A very large tree with a cylindrical tmnk without 

 aerial roots. Fruit hard ; walls thick, yellow when ripe in Feb. Bark 

 smooth, dark-coloured. . Juice white, pearly. 



9. F. Rumphii, Blume Bijd. 437 ; Fl. Br. I. 5. 512. F. cordijoUa, 

 Roxb., Brandis For. FL 4!l6. Fair^ Yarn. ; Fayar^ asht, M. 



Outer Himalaya, mountains of the Punjab, Northern, Western and 

 Central India, Assam, Burma and the Malay Peninsula. Western ghats 

 near Bombay, Brandis. At Khandula and probably throughout the Kon- 

 kan ghats. Fruit ripe May-J une. I have not observed this tree in North 

 Kanara. A moderate sized tree, closely resembling religiosa. Bark 

 yellowish-grey, wrinkled, exfoliating in hard scales. Wood white, soft 

 spongy. Used in Gachar to make charcoal. 



10. F. religiosa. Linn. Hort. Cliit. 471 ; Fl. Br. L 5. 513 ; Bedd. Fl* 

 Sylv. t. 314; r»randis For. Fi. 415. Urvstujma reZi^tomm, Dalz. & Gibs. 



