The Struggle for Existence in Indian Forests.? the note in the May-number of the Indian Medical Gazette, on this phenomenon, a respected authority on botany writes :?"Sal is one of the best examples of a gregarious tree. It sheds its seeds by the thousand. They germinate at once and kill out most other plants."

Regarding

G.

G. S.?The

specimen

of leaves and bark

belong

to

Cinnamomum caudatum (Wall). This, with many others of the numerous species of cinnamon, has aromatic bark.