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TLe proportion of sapwood to heartwood varies with the diameter 
of the tree, but measurement along the radii of a number of speci- 
mens gave the following proportions for bark, sapwood, and heart- 
wood of trees 4| feet in girth : — 
Bark . ..... 15 per cent. 
Sapwood . . . . . 25 „ 
Heartwood . . . , . GO ,, 
Average weight of the wood 82 lbs. per cubic foot, but wood from 
the Upper Godaveri appears generally to be lighter. Leaves bifoliate ; 
leaflets sessile, entire, obtuse, obliquely ovate or semi-cordate, with 
4-5 arcuate merves. Stipules small, cordate, caducous. Flowers 
greenish-yellow, on long slender racemes, arranged in axillary or 
terminal panicles ; pedicels shorter than flowers ; bracts minute, 
caducous. Ovary oblong, style ascending with a large peltate stigma. 
Pod lanceolate, 2-3 inches long, with parallel longitudinal veins, a 
solitary seed near the top. 
III.— Utility. 
The dark reddish-brown heartwood is used for house posts and 
bridges, and for ornamental work, being very durable. It is liable to 
split, but does not warp. It has been used for sleepers on the Eaj- 
putana Malwa Railway. Sleepers buried at the Forest College, 
Dehra Dun, when dug up in 1893, after 7 years in the ground, were 
found still perfectly sound in every respect. 
The bark yields a valuable fibre, and the leaves are much relished 
by cattle for fodder. In Berar and tSouth India the trees were 
formerly much pollarded for cattle fodder. 
IV. — Distribution. 
(1) General. 
In the dry forests of Soiith and Central India, but not every- 
where, extending northwards as far as the Banda District of the 
United Provinces. Generally gregarious in patches of greater or 
less extent. In South India its chief localities are: — in Godaveri 
in the forests round Bhadrachalam ; in Kistna in the great Bollapilli 
Reserve ; in Anantapur in the Muchukota forest ; in Bellary at 
Malpangudi; also in Ciiddapah and Kurnool. Further south it is 
found on both banks of the Cauvery in Salem District and on the 
Balarangams, and at Hasanur and Gazalhati in Coimbatore, 
