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SIT 345 Bargad or Ním (Phoenix There are a number of lakes in Sitapur, but most of them are merely large ponds with stretches of marshy land all roupd. There are four in pargana Bári,--one borders on the villages Bahirwa, Chhájan, Jalálpur, Andhna, a second on Haraiya, Rámdána, Bhandia, Ajai, and a third on Chauriya, Chandiya, Unclia Khera, Semra, Kaima, Rámpur, and others, a fourth on Surjanpur, Shankarpur, Sair. In Mahmudabad there is a fifth small lake bordering the villages Kaurár, Madárpur, Bhanpur, Lodhaura, and others. In Tambaur pargana there are two jhils at Harharpur and Rudrápur. In Kundri at Ajaipur and Rájpur. All of them are naviga- ble by small boats of shallow draught, but they are only useful for irriga- tion. Vegetable produots.—To come to the vegetable products they may be divided into á cultivated produce, B uncultivated produce. Taking the latter first we have that derived from trees under the forni of timber, fruit, fibres, dyes, gum, and lac, and the trees yielding these are as follows Mango (Mangifera indica). Kathal (Artocarpus integrifolia). Pípal (Ēicus religiosa). Babal (Acacia Arabica). Gúlar (Ficus glomerata). Khair (Acacia catechu). Pákar (Ficus venosa). Dbák (Butes frondosa). or Banyan tree (Ficus indica). Rhujer (Azadirachta indica). sylrestris). Loola (Phyllanthus cmhlica). Siakoo (Dalbergia Siaso). • Tun (Cedrela toona). Siras (Memosa serissa) Taisarind (Tamarindas indica). Phalenda (Syzygium jambolanum). Kachnár (Bauhinia variegata). Ján UD (Eugenia janbolana). Common Bamboo (Bambúra). Bel (Ægle mermeros). Señal (Bombax hentaphylla). Of these the only tree grown in groves is the mango, and it, and many of the others notably the pípal and bel are considered by the Hindus to be sacred trees, and no devout member of that body will destroy them with the axe or by fire or in any other way. The bel, for instance, is a representative of Shiva, and the pípal and banyan represent Vishnu ; the person who plants one of the latter does so expecting that just as he has set apart a tree to afford shade to his fellow-creatures in this world so after death he will not be scorched by excessive heat in his journey to the kingdom of Yama, the regent of death. These two with the gúlar and pákar are of the fig genus; the fruit of the gúlar being of a better and larger description than that of the pákar. Lac is yielded by the pípal. The leaves of the vìm possess medicinal properties, as does also the fruit of the bel tree. The semal is the " cotton tree” growing to an immense size and bright with crimson flowers ; the phalenda is a larger species of the jámun, both baving a purple fruit as large as a damson; and the kathal is the well known jack fruit tree.” The babál, khair, and dhák are smaller trees than any of the others, and grow in the most barren soil; the first yields both a dye and a gum, the ordinary "gum arabic," the last the gum known as "dragon's blood or kino," and the khair produces the "catechu" familiar to doctors. All three are combined to form the kháki colour used in dyeing the uniforms of many of the native regiments and of the well known Oudh constabulary. A red dye is obtained from the scarlet flowers of the dủák,