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SELECT PLANTS READILY ELIGIBLE 



should therefore be disseminated on our extensively bare 

 sand-shores. To the recommendations of this bush can be 

 added that it grows so quicklj. 



Acer niveum, Blume. 



Continental and Insular India, up on the forest-ranges. 

 This is the tallest of the Maples, attaining a height of 150 

 feet. Several other large Maples worthy of introduction, 

 particularly into our pai^ks, occur on the mountains of India. 



^sculus Indica, Coiebrooke. 



In the Himalayas, from 3500 to 9000 feet. Height finally 

 fifty feet; trunk comparatively short, occasionally with a 

 girth of twenty- five feet. Never quite ^vitllout leaves. Can 

 be used like the Horse- Chestnut as an ornamental shade- 

 tree. 



Albizzia bigemina, F. v. Mueller. ( PithecoloUum hige- 

 minum, Martins.) 

 India, up to Sikkim and Nepal, ascending in Ceylon to 4000 

 feet. Available for our forests for its peculiar dark and hard 

 wood. Another congener, A. subcoriacea (Pithecolobium 

 subcoriaceum, Tliwaites) from the mountains of India is 

 deserving with numerous other tall species here test-culture. 



Albizzia lophantha. 



Add: Here better still than the Broom-bush for shelter of 

 new forest-plantations in open sand-lands. 



Alnus Nepalensis, D. Don. 



Himalayas, between 3000 and 9000 feet. Reaches a height 

 of sixty feet. With an other Himalayan Alder, A. nitida 

 (Endlicher), it can be grown along streams for the sake of its 

 wood. 



Artocarpus integrifolia, Linne. 



India. The famous Jack-tree, ascending like the allied A. 

 Lakoocha (Roxburgh) to 4000 feet. Trials might be made 

 to see, whether it would ripen its fruit in the hottest and 

 moistest regions of our colony. 



Berberis Nepalensis, Sprengel. 



Himalayas, at elevations between 4000 and 8000 feet. The 

 fruit of this evergreen species is edible. 



Betula acuminata, Wallich. 



Himalaya, between 3000 and 10,000 feet. Attains a height 

 of sixty feet, and delights on forest-streams. The wood hard, 

 strong and durable. Another Himalayan Bii^ch, B. utilis 

 (D. Don), grows on arid ground, and produces good timber of 

 less hardness. 



