Author: Henry R. Morgan
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Published: 2018-02-12
Total Pages: 170
ISBN-13: 9780656385690
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Excerpt from Forestry in Southern India The Teak tree scientifically known as the Tectona grandis belongs to the natural order of Verbenaceae or Vervain order, a genus of dicotyledonous plants deriving its name from the Indian one of tekka or theka used to designate the principal species. The most important, if not the only species, is the Tectona grandis, a large tree, a native of India, the wood of which is well known by the name of Teak or Sagwc'in. It is hard, and durable, and of great use in building ships as well as for many other useful purposes, as it is very hard and of longer duration than the oak. It is often called the Indian Oak, having ashy-coloured and scaly bark with the young shoots, four-sided and grooved without stipules, large deciduous leaves measuring from twelve to twenty-four inches long, and from eight to sixteen inches broad, rough and covered with short stiff hairs above, whitish and downy beneath, panicles terminal, large cross armed divided in twos with a stemless fertile flower in each cleft or division covered with a brown mealy powder, and the stalks are deeply grooved with four prominent angles, and flowers numerous small white, the outer and inner envelopes, five to six cleft, stamens, six, ovary round hairy, four-celled cells, one seeded nut very hard. It flowers in June and July, and the seeds ripen in September and October. Dye - From the tender leaves a purple colour is extracted which is used as a dye for silk and cotton cloths. Medicinal.-the young leaves are eaten boiled with sugar in sore mouth, and the flowers prepared much in the same way in dropsy. The green fruits are compounded into an ointment and used for various skin eruptions. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
