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dual. THs may seem like starting at the end, but it is necessary to draw 
attention to the season of fruiting and seeding, as it is of great importance 
in the development of the seedling. In describing its life history actual 
statistics and records will be made use of as far as possible. 
(a) Season of Flowering and Fruiting. 
The Anjan then comes into flower during the rains, that is, usually 
some time in August or September. The fruit is seen on the trees by 
October, but it is not ripe then, and in fact does not ripen until the 
following April or May. This is a peculiarity not infrequently met with 
amongst other species of the same family, such as Dalbergia Sissoo, 
Pterocarpus Marsupium, etc. 
The seed remains on the tree until May and then falls, being scattered 
by the winds, which are strong at that season of the year, for a consider- 
able distance from the parent tree, owing to the light nature of the pod 
which acts as a wing to the seed. 
An important point to note here, is that the seed falls when most of the 
forest fires are over. It therefore suffers very little from this source of 
danger, so that as a rule every seed which falls from the parent tree is 
available and ready when the first burst of the monsoon occurs, to do its 
share in the regeneration of the species. 
{b) Periodicity of Flowering and Fruiting, and Quantity of Seed 
produced. 
When the Anjan flowers and fruits, it produces seed most proli- 
fically, probably more so than any other of our valuable Indian 
timber trees ; but these seedings do not occur annually, nor, when a 
seeding occurs, is it always of the same intensity. It would not appear 
that any very definite statistics have been gathered together over a long 
series of years on this point, but we have collected the following informa- 
tion from the Annual Forest Administration Reports of the Central 
provinces and Berar. 
The Berar reports were gone through from the years 1876-77 to 
1887-88. The only references to be found were ; — 
(1) 1877-78 was a seed year in Gerumatergaon Reserve (Buldana 
. Division). 
^2) 1886-87 was a bad seed year. 
