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LIST OF WOODS OF AMHERST, TEXASSERIM, AXD MARTABAN.

[Class IV.

No. 21.— "WOODS OF AMHERST (Mr. Commissioner Blundell)— continued.

56. Sect-seen - -

57. Taup-sha - -

58. Teng-khat - -

59. Thab-ban - -

60. Tha-bwot-gyee -

61. Tha-byion — -

62. Tha-khwot - -

63. Thainmai - -

64. Than-kya - -

65. Tha-nat - -

66 . ,, - -

67. Than-that - —

68. Thanna-dan -

69. Tlieng-gan - —

70. Thep-yeng - -

71. Theet-phyion -

72. Theet-to - —

73. Theet-ya - -

74. Tbiem — - -

75. Toung-bien -

76. Toung-thau-gyee

77. Toung-tha-byion

78. Tseet — - -

79. Tsekka-doun -

80. Tshaup-yo - -

81. Tshan-lshay -

82. Tshwai-hvai -

83. Tshiet-khyeen —

84. Tsoay-dan - -

85. Tswot-ba-lwot -

86. Yammandy -

87. Y'cng-tnip - —

88. Yetha-b^ay- -

89. Yoga-tlieet - —

90. Zec-byion - -

91. Zeng-bywom -

- - A valuable, heavy, compact, red wood; used in building temples.

- - Shaky wood ; used in carpentry.

- - A heavy, white, compact wood; turns well; used for rice-mortars.

- - A heavy wood : used in boat-building ; timber sometimes 70 feet long;

specific gravity 0*814.

- - A good, heavy, useful wood.

Eugenia (?) - A useful timber tree.

- - Used for sandals.

- — A strong handsome wood, like box.

- - Wood like saul-wood.

- - A kind of grey teak.

- — Resembles saul.

- - Resembles saul, a capital wood.

- - A reddish-brown, heavy, strong wood, but somewhat shaky.

- - An excellent compact wood ; used for carts, boats, house-building, &c.,

and considered superior to teak ; specific gravity 0*911.

- - A fine-grained wood.

Mimosa (?) - A fine white wood ; used for fan-handles.

- - A dark-coloured, hard, heavy wood ; used in boat-building, &c.

- — A fine strong, tough, brown wood; used for rice-mortars, or pounders.

- — Used in house-building and carpentry.

- - .V strong heavj* wood ; used for carts and boat-building.

- - A hard, compact, dark-brown wood.

Mimosa - - A strong, red, heavy wood ; used in building.

- — Used for house-posts, and in boat-building.

- - I Used for house-posts, and in boat-building, but very shaky.

- — (A heavy, very strong, white wood, but liable to attacks of insects.

- - A useful wood, but shaky, and liable to attacks of insects.

- - A hard red wood, suitable for cabinet-work : used for musket-stocks.

- - Used for house-posts.

- - Hard, heavy, tough wood ; used for wheels, musket-stc.cks, kc.

- - Like the wood of Lagerstrcemia.

- I A good and valuable wood ; used for carving images.

- - | A strong useful wood ; used for common carpentry.

- - Used for carved images ; the bark used as soap.

- - A close compact wood, but rather shaky ; not attacked by insects.

- - ‘ A useful wood; employed in building.

No. 22.—"WOODS OF TENASSER1M.

1. Baubinia, or mountain ebony.

2. Calophylium, sp.

3. Carcya arborea. C. sphcerica, bambooce.

4. Cyrtophyllum fragrans. Annn.

5. Dalbcrgia latifolia, or lana wood.

6. Diospyros, sp.

7. Erythrina.

8. Fagra'a fragrans.

9. Grewia, sp.

10. llopea odorata, or thengan.

11. Ileretiera minor, or soondra.

12. Inditie, or ebony.

13. Inga xylocarpn, pyangadian.

14. Kazaret.

15. Laurus, sp., sassafras wood.

16. Lagerstrcemia Regina?; jarrool, or jamming.

17. Lagerstrcemia macrocarpa; pyen ma, or jarrool.

18. Mergui, red wood.

19. Films Latteri.

20. PterocarpusM’allichii, Ptcrocarpus lndica, podauck.

21. Rose-wood.

22. Sterculia fbetida.

23. Sandal-wood (wild).

24. Thanaka.

25. Tectona grandis.

26. Vitex arborea.

The “Soondra” is a very tough and elastic wood, com-monly used for boat-building, &c.; it is, however, a veryperishable wood, and shrinks a good deal in seasoning;specific gravity 1*002 to 1*086. From Major H. Camp-bell’s valuable experiments on the strength of Indiantimber, this is evidently a very strong wood; since out of27 woods which he examined, he found the Soondra tobe the strongest. .

“ Anan,” a tree belonging to the mix vomica tribe,*one of the hardest and most compact woods known.

“ Podauck,” a leguminous tree, commonly called“ rose-wood,” a very beautiful, compact, and hard timber,resembles the Andaman wood.

“ Thengan,” Hoped odorata , an enormous tree of theDipterocarpece, or Saul tribe; a very strong but coarse-grained wood, used for making canoes ;—immense quan-tities of good dammer, or resin, are obtained from this tree.

“ Pyangadean,” a tree belonging to the Acacia tribe,commonly called “ iron-wood,” in the Arracan provinces ;a very hard, dense, and durable wood.

No. 23.—M OODS OF MARTABAN (Dr. 'SVallich).

1. Calophvllum - -

Thurappe -

o.

Carcya - - — -

Kaza— -

3.

Cynomctra - - - —

Maingga —

4.

Diospyros (?)-- —

Ryamucha

5.

Elaeoearpus - - -

- -

6.

Fagrsea fragrans — —

Annah-beng

7

Gordonia (?) - - -

Kaza — -

s.

Kopea odorata - - -

Tcngaun -

9.

Meenaban - - - —

- -

10.

Pongamia atropurpurea -

I.agun -

11.

Quercus Amherstiana —

Tirbbac -

12.

Tectona grandis - -

_ -

13. Terminalia bialata.

14. Xanthophyllum - - -

Saphcw

A large tree; used for masts and spars.

,. used for posts, Sec.

A small tree.

Used in house-building.

Very large timber ; used for masts and house-posts.

Compact, hard, yellow, and very beautiful wood ; little used.Large common timber.

An immense tree.

A durable pliant wood.

A noble tree; used in boat and house-building.

A large tree; used in boat-building.

Teak wood.

A very large tree ; used for posts and rafters.