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Vegetable Products [no. 6, new series, 



Near Tandigoody, Cardamoms are also cultivated to a great ex- 

 tent. To form a Cardamom grove the small trees and underwood 

 are burned, but the larger trees are left standing. 



The following plants yield valuable fibres for rope, &c, and are 

 much used by the Natives in the lower ranges. 



Kat murke nar. (grows to a tree.) Gnidia eriocephala. 



Volca nar Grewia Asiatica. 



Surke nar t Grewia abutilifolia. 



Artocarpus integrifolia is most abundant in all the sholas of the 

 lower ranges, particularly at Perry oor and Paucheloor. 



The following timbers are much used by the Natives here. 



Nawar (Eugenia jambolana.) 



Maiglan (Vitex alata.) 



Cottam pallam. (Terminalia catappa.) 

 Kammalla. . . . (Gmelina arborea.) 



Kaie ? used for ploughs. 



The timber of Gmelina is highly spoken of. 



The mace round the wild nutmeg (Palmanee Kam) is used by 

 Natives to color their teeth. A Beer is made from the raggee 

 (Eleusine) the flowers of Vitex negundo are used as a hop to fer- 

 ment it with. Into the toddy which they draw from the Caryota 

 wens, (a tree very abundant here,) they fling in some of the bark 

 of Olea robusta which immediately causes fermentation. 



Girardinia Leschenaultiana, aplant yielding a valuable fibre is most 

 abundant here, the natives however, are ignorant of its use. 



The leaves of Dodonsea Burmanniana are bound on swellings pro- 

 duced by Sprains, &c.,it is said with great effect, a decoction of the 

 leaves is given internally in cases of leprosy. 



Polygonum Sp \ 



Acalypha Indica V used medicinally. 



Flowers of Kalanchoe grandiflora. J 



The sholas are very thick about Paucheloor and less destroyed, 

 apparently than at Pandigoody. The black dammer tree is very 

 abundant here. There has at one time been a good quantity of Teak 

 on the slopes between Periyur and Verupatchy and also on the 



