INGA XYLOCARPA D. C. Iron-wood. Mimosa xylocarpa, Brat). Acacia xylocarpa, Xylia dolabriformis, Benth.
Pyen-ka-do, . . BURN. Jamboo, . . . HIND. Yerool, . . CAN., MANS. Eruvaln, . . . TAM. Jamba, . . „ „ Malei averei, . .. „ ?? Partridge wood, . . ENG. Tangedu, . . . . TEL. Boja of the . GODAVERY. Ronda tangodu, . . „ This valuable and stately timber tree blossoms during the hot season, at which period it is nearly destitute of foliage. It is abundant in the Walliar forests of Coimbatore, also in N. Canara, between Sircee and Yellapore, and is not uncommon in the seaboard forests of the Bombay Presidency, south of Panwell. In Canara and Sunda it is chiefly above the ghats in Soopeh and Dandelee, where it grows large, and is very useful in house-building. It is met with in the Godavery forests, where it grows very large on the mountains, and there is much of it in the Vizagapatam district. In the southern forests of Pegu it is a plentiful large tree, 15 to 18 inches in diameter, very lofty and straight, with 6 to 9 feet in girth, and very abundant in Amherst, Mergui, and Tavoy.
The heart - wood of full-grown trees is of a Clark colour, very hard and dense, strong and durable, etc. It is used for house and bridge posts, ploughs, boat anchors, for naves of cart wheels, crooks for ships ; knees and bends, posts, piles, and bridges ; and is excellent for railway sleepers, etc. A cubic foot weighs 60 to 66 lbs. An inch bar of the Coimbatore wood sustained 550 lbs. Nails cannot be driven into it. It is as impervious to white ants as teak, and is even more durable in the ground. In the Madras Gun Carriage Manufactory it is used for poles, axle cases, and braces for transport limbers, poles and yokes for water-carts, cheeks, axle cases for transport carriages, light mortar carts. On the Madras Railway it has been employed exten sively for piles, transoms, and walling pieces. In small scantlings, His liable to split and warp under exposure to the weather.—Drs. Boxb., Wight, M'Clelland, Brandis, Mason, Gibson, Cleghorn ; Captain Dance ; Mr. Rohde; Cat. Ex. ; Voigt.