NO. 53—1902.] TREES AND FLOWERING PLANTS. 193 



Wood dark yellowish-brown, hard, close, dense, and heavy. 

 My specimens weigh 46^ lb. per cubic foot. Suitable for 

 beams and trusses or heavy work generally. 



190.— Palaquium petiolare. 



Tawwenna, S. aj©e)i*53«». 

 Trim. Cey. Flor., vol. III., p. 82, 



A very large, tall, straight tree, buttressed at base, with thick 

 smooth grayish bark yielding gutta copiously. 



Leaves about three inches, ovate, rather tapering at base, 

 bluntly pointed, stiff, dark, smooth, shining green above, 

 paler below, with distinct curved lateral veins of rather 

 S-like outline (reversed) on long slender stalks, rather 

 crowded at ends of branches. 



Flowers pale pinkish, in clusters in axils of fallen leaves 

 on long rather leathery stalks. 



Fruits rather globular, enclosed at base in persistent calyx 

 lobes. Seed solitary, brownish-black. 



Occurs rather plentifully at Pelawatta and Hewissa in the 

 Pasdun Korale, and from Kitulgalla to Eratne in Sabara- 

 gamu wa . 



Wood dull red-brown, close, dense, hard, about 53 lb. per 

 cubic foot. Yery durable. Useful for beams, mine planks, 

 and house-building. 



The gutta from this species may be found suitable for . 

 cable-making, and it is desirable, in view of the demand for 

 that product, that this plant should receive special attention. 

 A single tree on which I operated gave three-quarters of a 

 pint of pure snow-white latex. 



In Eratne I observed several trees with scars indicating 

 that they had been tapped by natives, probably for the same 

 purpose, as they take the latex of the Kiri-vel (Willughbeia 

 zeylanica), which see. 



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