£36 



Statistical Report o)i the 



[No. 35, 



and the more industrious loosen the ground about them once or 

 twice a year by the plough, but in very many cases this is neglei;t- 

 ed. The Tar is said to yield sap for three generations, and to be 

 ready for tapping in ten or a dozen years. The toddy varies 

 with the season and age of the plant. A bad grain year is said 

 to be a good year for the Kullals. The trees are sometimes tap- 

 ped thrice a day. The Caryota mens grows to the eastward 

 but it is not a very common pabn, it yields a great quantity of sap. 

 Cordage, baskets and fans, are made from the fronds of this palm, 

 as well as from those of the Tar — Calamus Rotang — the rattan is 

 found in Sumtamunnium and the Chelwaee Pergunnas. 



PA^'DA^^;J: — Pandanus odoratissimus, leaves made into mats. 

 Ttphinje — Typha elephantina^ culms formed into hoods by the 

 Coonhees to protect them from the rain. 

 AEOiDEiE — Eoots of several species eaten. 

 Gramike^ — Besides the cultivated grains several species of pa- 

 nicum and elensine yield food to the poorer classes — the seeds are 

 swept off the ground by an instrument called Woorapilly sapa, the 

 form and manner of which will be better understood by the draw- 

 ing. A species of arundo yields pipes for the shrill music of the 

 religious mendicants. The Saccharum cylindricum yields a strong 

 cord in great use among the Coonhees — with this their cots 

 are usually corded. A saccharum that grows to the eastward fur- 

 nishes reeds for writing. The Ischoemum pilosum grows where 

 there is a black soil — also the useful harialee ( Panicum Dachtylon ) 

 the sacred Poa — the doorh grass and other species of Poa — the 

 Rotthoellias, grown in the Circar, are much used for thatch. 



It may here be mentioned that the Circar produces no timber 

 valuable enough for exportation. The teak, ebony, sandal wood, 

 satin wood tree, and the blackwood are of short and stunted 

 growth in the granite — and do not attain to any great size in the 

 sandstone. 



The Pentapfera tomeniosa and the ScJirehera Swietinoides might 

 be found to produce good serviceable timber, but with the tea.k of 

 the Nagpore forests so near at hand they could never enter into 

 competition. 



Agriculture agriculture of this Circar, more espe- 



cially as shown in the cultivation of ricC; is 



