jan. — mar. 1858.] of the Pulney Hills. 



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the Cungilium is'I know still cut, and I have no doubt the Teak 

 saplings also when any are found worth cutting. On the slopes 

 near Pullatoor, Sandal wood is also found in small quantities. 



The lower Pulnies are much more wooded, than the higher range, 

 they are almost every where covered with a rather stunted jungle 

 of Trees. The following trees are most numerous. 



Conocarpus latifolius (Veckalie.) Erythrina Indica. 



Terminalia chebula. Very abun- Sclerostylis atalantioides. 



dant. Atalantia monophylla. 



Bignonia xylocarpa. Gmelina arborea. 



Sterculia guttata. Zizyphus xylopyrus. 



Cathartocarpus fistula. Grewia tilicefolia. 



Emblica officinalis. Canthium umbellatum. 



The trees are generally rather stunted, I observed a good quan- 

 tity of the black dammer tree (Canariwn strict um) towards Tyem- 

 pollium. The hill people never extract the dammer, and are ap- 

 parently ignorant of the uses of the tree. 



The cultivation on these lower ranges is very considerable, com- 

 pared to that of the higher ranges, about Pumukad and Tantigoo- 

 dy, all the vallies are under cultivation. 



The chief products of the lower ranges are Turmeric, Plantains, 

 Mustard, Castor Oil, Vendiam. (Trigonella Faenum Graecum.) 



Cumboo. (Penicillaria spicata.) 

 Ragee (Eleusine coracana.) 

 Varagoo (Panicum miliaceum.) 

 Tennay (Setaria Italica.) 



Mangoes, Citrons, Limes, Oranges, Cardamoms. 



The shola forests in the vicinity of Tandigoody and Perryoor are 

 very extensive, and contain tress of enormous size. The black 

 dammer and the wild nutmeg trees are abundant. These sholas, 

 however, are daily disappearing before the Plantain groves. To 

 prepare a Plantain grove, a large tract of shola is burnt down, thi3 

 forms a fine soil for the Plantain, acres of fine shola are destroy- 

 ed annually in this manner. 



