CHAPTEE VI 
TIMBERS OF INDIA, BURMA, AND ANDAMAN IS'LANDS 
Bamboo — Babool — Tamarind — Jackwood — Ilamileel — Cocoanut Tree 
— Calamander — Sal — Toon — Deodar — Indian Ebony — Palmyra 
Palm — Padouk — Mango — Eed Sanders — Mysore Sandalwood — 
Vengai — Satinwood — Sundri — Butter Tree — Chittagong Wood — 
Ivumbuk — Ped Eyne — Jaman — Sissoo — Blackwood — Mutti — 
Neem — Anjan — Eng — Gurjun — ■ Boxwood — Kosum — Kbair — 
Palu — Pyinkado — Teak — ^Kokko — Chuglan — Kaita-da — Lakuch — 
Thitman — Mohwa — Thingan — Pyinma — Gangau — Thitya — 
Ingyin — Cangu — Che — Bhotan or Blue Pine — Chir Pine — Khasia 
Pine — Spruce — Silver Fir — Larcb. 
Bamboo is the most generally useful of all the vegetable 
productions of India. It is used for boat-building, oars, 
clubs, walking-sticks, and for scaffolding, bridge-building, 
and water-pipes ; it forms the framework which supports 
the thatched roofs of houses, and from it are made the war 
lance of the cavalry and the pole of the dooli. The bamboo, 
which is really a gigantic grass, is of two distinct kinds, 
the small, hard, close-grained, solid variety, the male 
bamboo, which is rare, and the large hollow one which is 
generally used for uprights and scaffolding. Bambusa 
arundinaceais a very fine species; Kyanhaung {B. auriculata) 
and Tin {ceplialostachyum pergracile) are two species of 
bamboo which grow with the teak, also Wagok [Oxyten- 
antliera alhociliata) ; they have cavities in their diameter 
nearly one-third of that of the culms. Some of the 
bamboos attain a height of 60 to 80 ft. and are about 
8 inches in diameter. The wood is very tough and strong 
