No. 6. — 1853.] DISTRICT OF CHILAW AND PUTTALAM. 49 



price was 9d. per lb.; it has now however fallen to but 

 the process is less carefully conducted than formerly. 



The fruits and vegetables are the same as in other parts of 

 the low-country ; but no attention whatever being paid to their 

 cultivation, the produce of the majority is poor and insipid. 

 English vegetables have at various times been planted ; but 

 lettuces, radishes, and some kinds of bean are the only ones 

 which appear capable of accommodating themselves to the 

 climate. 



Cotton grows wild over the whole District, and the product 

 used to be collected in large quantities. Cloth from English 

 looms has, however, to a great extent, driven the native manu- 

 facturer out of the market. 



Timber. 



The whole face of the District, with the exception of a narrow 

 strip along the sea-coast, being covered with wood, a consider- 

 able variety of timber trees is to-be met with. 



The commonest of these are the following : — 



English. Sinhalese. Classical. 



Ebony ... Kaluwara, ®6©<5 ... Diospyros Ebenum, Retz. 



Satinwood ... Buruta, §<5tQ3 ... Chloroxylon Swietenia, D.C. 



— Milia, ©cfc ••• Vitex altissima. Linn. 



— HalmiJla, &)(S®dG ••• Berry a Amnion ilia, Rox. 

 Ironwood* ... Palu, k6 ... Mimusops Indica, D.C. 



— Godapara, ^©dd&)s3<5 ... Dillenia retusa, Than. 



— Hora, (3>3D0<5 ... Diptercarpus Zeylanicus, Thw. 

 Jack ... Kos, ... Artocarpus integrifolia, Linn. 

 Teak ... Tekka, <^ej-2sJ2S5 ... Tectona grandis, Linn. 



Of these, Jack is never found growing spontaneously, and of 

 the Teak there are unfortunately but few specimens left, all 

 the plantations of this tree formed in the southern part of the 



* The true ironivood tree is Messua ferrea, L. (Sin. ndgaha, £Da cos:,) 



