88 Indian Forest Records. [VoL. II. 
The Central Provinces reports were gone through from 1887-88 to 
1906-07. The references found were : — 
(1) 1898-99 was a bad seed year. 
(2) 1899-1900 was a good seed year in Chanda and Nimar. 
(3) 1902-03 was a seed year in Gerumatergaon Reserve (Yeotmal 
Division). 
A note of more value than any of the above is made by Mr. Fernandez 
in the report for 1899-1900, and is worth recording verbatim : — 
“ It may be convenient to record here the years in which Anjan 
has seeded in Nimar since the writer of this report joined 
the service— 1874, 1879, 1884, 1889, 1893, 1899.” 
Here we have some definite figures to go on. To these we can now 
add the year 1904-05. Accepting the above figures as those of recorded 
observations, we find that the Anjan reproduces itself by seed almost 
regularly every five years. From 1874 to 1904 there were in Nimar 
seven good seed years, and in only one year, i.e., in 1893, was the five- 
year period deviated from. 
The actual year in which a seeding takes place is not, however, neces- 
sarily the same in two localities, and it may vary within very prescribed 
limits. To take a case in point, we have the year 1877-78 as a seed year 
in the Gerumatergaon Reserve of the Yeotmal Division of Berar, and 
again the year 1902-03. We shall probably not be far vTong if we fit 
in the intervening seed years as 1882, 1887, 1892, and 1897, and the fact 
that 1902 was recorded as a seed year lends strength to this supposition. 
It will be seen that this cycle of seed years comes in between that re- 
corded for the Nimar Division. The Yeotmal and Nimar Divisions are 
no doubt some distance apart, but to take a more prescribed area we 
may mention that this year (1908) none of the Anjan in the Khandwa or 
Punasa Ranges of the Nimar Division seeded, while all the Anjan trees 
planted along the roads in the Civil Station of Khandwa, and there are a 
considerable number, flowered and seeded most profusely. 
(c) E^ect of Drought on Seeding. 
It is a well established fact that a year of drought often induces 
profuse seeding. This frequently occurs with the bamboo Dendro- 
calamus strictus, but it would also appear to be the case mth the Anjan. 
Writing in the Forest Administration Report for 1899-1900, 
