A Dictionary of the Economic Products of India Volume 6, No. 1 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1892 Excerpt: ...met with from the Salt Range, altitude 3,000 feet, eastwards along the foot of the Himalaya, and southwards to Travancore and Ceylon. Dye.--Gamble states that the Wood is used in the Darifling Terai in colouring silks yellow. According to McCann this Bark Is generally employed along with turmeric and the bark of Symplocos racemosa. The latter author further states that some of the specimens he had received as gumbengfong belonged to a pecies of Morinda. This remark makes the following report by Wardle doubtfully referable to Plecospermum. "This specimen " (Gumbengfong) "of Morinda root appears to contain less colouring matter than any I have examined." The colours he obtained with unbleached tussur varied from brownish yellow to light brown; those with bleached tussur were light brownish yellow; those with corah silk and wool a brown gold. But the authenticity of his sample may be doubted; he himself certainly considered it to be a root of a species of Morinda. Structure of the Wood.--Greyish-white, with a small bright orangeyellow heartwood, which is very hard and is filled with a yellow resinous matter; growth slow; weight 50I0 per cubic foot. It makes an excellent fuel. Domestic.--Roxburgh and Beddome state that the shrub is well adapted for planting as a hedge. PLECTOCOMIA, Mart.; Gen. PI., I, 934. A genus of canes which belongs to the Natural Order Palm., and which, according to Indian writers, comprises four species, natives of this country. They are probably all utilised in the same way as other canes. The following are the species described up to the present. Plectocomia assamica, Griff., Palms, Br. East India, 107. Habitat.--A cane met with in Upper Assam. It resembles P. khasyana, and is united to that species by T. Anderson. P...