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It is partially gregarious, and in places curiously restricted 

 to certain spots, but, generally speaking, is common. 



The wood is in very great demand for boat-building, cask 

 manufacture, and beams for temporary structures. Exposed, 

 it is not durable, and quickly gives way to dry-rot. Opinions 

 vary considerably as to its lasting power, some asserting 

 that Hora will last for years as a building timber, but I 

 differ from this view. Weight, 52 lb. per cubic foot. Pale 

 brownish-red. Affords a quantity of gummy resin. 



[Moist low-country and extending into lower montane 

 zone.] 



42.— -DlPTEROCARPUS SCABRIDUS. 

 Hora, S. ^ass»c5. 



Trim. Cey. Flor., vol. I., p. 115. 



A large, tall, straight tree with pale bark, not easily dis- 

 tinguished from the last except by the fruit, which has 

 shorter wings and much- webbed lobes on the seed capsule. 



Wood pale, moderately soft. 



Very uncommon. Occurs at Midellena in the Pasdun 

 Korale. 



43. — DlPTEROCARPUS GLANDULOSUS. 

 Dorona, S. ^qd^a. 



A lofty tree much like Hora, but has smaller leaves with 

 generally about eleven pairs of lateral veins. The fruit 

 wings are much shorter than in Hora. 



Fairly common, but irregularly distributed. Occurs in the 

 Kuruwiti Korale, Rakwana, part of Balangoda, and Bam- 

 barabotuwa, Kitulgalla, and in the Siyane Korale. 



The villagers value this tree for the sake of its wood oil, 

 which they obtain by burning charcoal in cavities cut in the 

 stem. The oil so obtained is mixed with the latex of certain 

 creepers, and is placed in winnow-shaped scoops that are 

 attached to long slender poles, and gently swept over the 

 tops of young growing paddy for the purpose of catching 

 the " fly," that is readily caught by this sticky gumming 

 process. 



