on the Hortus Malabaricus, Part III. 1 
substance, which at Mungher is called Batti, and at Saseram 
Abnus. The latter word is; I believe, of Persian origin, and the 
source from which our Ebony is derived. 
One of the most common trees in the dry woods of Mysore 
differs so little from the preceding, that I have little doubt of its 
being the same. In 1806 I gave specimens of this to Sir J. E. 
Smith, under the name of Diospyros Tupru ; and I shall here 
describe the flower, which I found on both the male and her- 
maphrodite trees ; and this will show that the difference between 
the inflorescence of the Kend, as described above, and of the 
- Mabolo, as. described by M. Desrousseaux, is not sufficient to 
distinguish them as species. 
Diospyros Tupru. | | 
Tupru Carnatæ. Buchanan’s Mysore, i. 183. 
Hebitat in Carnatæ aridioris sylvis. 
Planta omnino ut in D. exculpto. 
Flores diclines ; in una arbore sessiles, tale et mas- 
culini mixti; in altera pedunculati, omnes masculini. In 
priore flores sessiles, tomentosi, solitarii, squamis 3 seu 4 
bracteati. 
Herm.—Calyx campanulatus, crassus, sexfidus laciniis ovatis, 
obtusis, margine revoluto, intus membrana connatis. Co- 
rolla monopetala ore sexfido. Filamenta sex brevissima, 
hypogyna. Anthere oblongæ, acute, simplices. Germen 
superum, ovatum. Styli tres brevissimi, crassi. Stigmata 
simplicia. Bacca calyce cupuliformi infra arcte cincta, mag- 
na, hirsuta, umbilicata, mucronata, quadrilocularis. Sé- 
mina solitaria, amygdaliformia. 
Masc.—Calyx et corolla ut in hermaphrodito. Filamenta novem 
brevissima. Anthere simplices, subulatæ, erectæ, incluse, 
nescio 
