The Oudh forests are in three districts. The first, or Khirigurh district, lies between the rivers Sohali and Mohana. The area is 263 square miles, of which 149 square miles produce sal ; but the trees here in 1868-69 were not large enough to produce logs of timber. The second, or Bamiteh district, the countries between the rivers Kerrovr lee and Girwa, is partly covered with sissoo forest and partly with a dense jungle of a variety of trees. The forest area is 170 square miles, of which 100 produce sal. Eight trees are reserved, viz. Vatica ' robusta, Dalbergia sissoo, Cedrela toona, Diospy ros melanoxylon, Conocarpus latifolia, Terminalia tomentosa, Acacia catechu, and Nauclea cordifolia, sissoo, toon, and ebony. Other forest trees of Oudlt are, /Egle marmelos, Aila.nthus excelsa, Bassia latifolia, Eugenia jambolana, Feronia clephantum, Melia azederach, Ilimusops elengi, and Terminalia bellerica.
The Panjab forests on the banks of the five rivers are of great value, and the deodar forests of the rajas of Chamba and Bassahir aro avail able for the Indian Government. Tho northern limit of the sal is on the banks of the Bees in the Kangra valley.
In the arid tract of Sind and the Panjab, forests of babul (Acacia Arabica) line the Indus at various points, which, in 3liddle and Upper Sind, are mixed with tamarisk and the Euphrates poplar; while jhund or kundi (Prosopis spicigera), an acacia-like tree, salvadora, and an arborescent leafless caper (Capparis aphylla), occupy vast tmets ' in rear of tho babul foresta. The dry belt of the Panjab has woods on the high land between the rivers, composed mainly of prosopis, salvadom, and capper's.
The woodlands of a portion of Rajputana are mainly compoaed of a beautiful tree, a speck" of Anogeissus, with small leaves and drooping branches.
Sandal-wood grows in the S. dry belt of Mysore.
Outside the arid zones, the teak grows in the mountain tracta and west emit of the south of India, where also grow the blackwood trees, poen spar trees, angely, vengay, and irul ; and the sal (Vatica robusta) grows in tho extenaive forests at the foot of the Himalaya, in foresta in the Rewa territory, the eastern part of tho Central Province, and the adjoining districts of Bengal.
'flie moist belt along the Hirnalayan range to Burma and Tenasserini, and that along the western coast of the Peninsula of India to tho top of tho ghats, is covered with luxuriant evergreen vegeta tion. In the Himalaya are the forests of pines and
firs. The deodar has its eastern limit in Kamaon, but is succeeded by other coniferous trees, one of which, the Pinus Khassyana, extends into Burma. The Ficus elastiea, yielding caoutchoue, is found along the foot of the Himalaya from Sikkim to Assam, and more sparingly at the foot of tho Kliassya and Cul= Hills. Assam also has tho Mesua ferrea, Artoearpus chaplasha, and Lager streernia reginm.
In Burma there are extensive forests of Pinus Khassyana on the high mountains, large teak forests between the Salwin and Sitang, and magnificent evergreen forest vegetation in the moister valleys, where trees grow to a height of 200 feet.
Forests in British Burma cover 4,480,000 acres, out of a total of 60,000,000 acres. Of this the teak forests take up 1,534,000 acres ; and forests devoid of teak, but in similar localities, 2,945,920. The richest in teak are on the hills between the Imwadi and Sitang. The destruction of the forests of Acacia catechu has been reckless. Burma also yields the Xylia dolabriformis. Teak plantationa were commenced in 1856 on the river above Rangoon, and on the Sitang near Tounghoo, intended to extend to 30,000 acres.
In Kamaon and Garhwal, the characteristic trees are the chil (Pinus excelsa) and tho chir (Pinus longifolia). Below lie the great sal and launboo forests, which have been much worked, but there is still much timber near the Kosi and Ramganga rivers.
The deodar forests of Gangotri and Jammu, N. of tho Dehra valley, near the sources of the Tons and the Bhna'rathi, the last leased from the Tiri raja.
In GoraUpur, sal is the characteristic tree, mixed with terminalia and acacia.
The deodar forests are in the valleys of the Sutlej, Beas, Ravi, Chenab, Jhelum, mid their tributaries. Tho forests of the Chamba and Bassahir states are leased by the Government of India. The raklis or preserves in the Panjab Doabs, between the rivers, consist of about 8000 square miles. Plantationa of mimeo and kikar have been formed at Changa Manga in the Bari Doab, 44 miles below Lahore; also on the Jhelum near Lodhiana, and near Dehli and along most of the irrigation canals.
In Oudh, the forests in the Kheri, Gonda, and Bharaich districts aro strips cut off from the Nepal forests on high ground along the Nepal frontier. They consist of sal, terminalia, and conocarpus, interspersed with open glades of grass land.