FLORA OF THE SUNDRIBUNS. 
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Everywhere from the northern forests to the sea. 
Vernac. Sundri. 
A small to medium tree, reaching 40-50 feet in height ; wood excellent, hard, 
tough and durable, red in colour; used in boat-building, also for posts, planks, 
rafters, jhools and dabbas of boats, furniture and firewood *, trunk often much 
buttressed; roots send up vertical blind suckers ; charcoal obtained from this tree 
is used by gold and silver-workers. 
Distrib. — Delta of the Irrawaddy and {fide Masters in F. B. /.) Borneo. 
Heritiera littoralis Dryand.^ stated in the F. B. I., and .in various other works 
on Indian Botany, to occur on the coasts of Bengal, has never been collected in 
the Sundribuns. 
16, Kleinliovia Linn. 
18. Kleinliovia llospita Linn., F. I. iii. 141; F. B. L i. 364. 
E. D. K 27. 
Sundribuns, Ellis ! 
Vernac. Bhola. 
A tall handsome tree ; bark provides coarse rope {Ellis), 
Distrib. — E. Tropical Africa ; Malaya ; Philippines. 
Unfortunately Mr. Ellis, who alone has sent Sundribun specimens of this tree, 
does not give a precise locality. The species was not introduced to the Calcutta 
Garden, from the Moluccas, till 1798; it can hardly then be a species in some 
now abandoned clearing. The tree does not occur in existing clearings ; the dis- 
tribution of the species is precisely that of many of the species truly wild in the 
Sundribuns ; there is, therefore, nothing against Kleinhovia being a genuine 
Sundribun plant. At all events the tree deserves to be carefully looked for again. 
X.-TILIACE^, 
17 , Browiilowia Roxb. 
19. Brownlowia lanceolata Benth. ; F. B. I. i. 381. E. D. b 895. 
Widely disseminated but nowhere very plentiful ; chiefly found on 
the banks of creeks and rivers, Griffith ! HeinigX Prain ! 
Vernac. Kedar Sundri ; Bhola Sundri. 
A small to medium tree, in leaf rather resembling Sundri : wood used as fuel. 
Distrib. — Tenasserim. 
*“ 18 , Corchorus Linn. 
ao. Corchorus aciitangulus Lamk.; F. B. 1 . i. 398. C. fuscus F. I. 1 
ii. 582. E. D, C 1840. 
Northern clearings, not common, Clarke ! Prain ! 
Vernac. Titapdt. 
An annual herb, rather resembles jute; properties unimportant. 
Distrib. — Tropics of Eastern Hemisphere; West Indies. 
