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alterna, oblonga, basin versus latiora, basi acuta, apice 
acuminata, integerrima, lucida, nuda, subcostata, venis mi- 
nuté reticulata. Petiolus brevissimus, depressus, corticosus, 
non stipulaceus. 
Bacca solitaria, lateralis, pedunculo brevissimo insidens, basi 
calyce quadrifido tecta, magnitudine nucis Juglandis mu- 
cronafa, cortice crasso succulento fibroso glutinoso quadri- 
locularis, loculorum uno sæpè abortiente. Semina solitaria, 
magna, verticalia, oblonga, hinc convexa, inde angulata. 
Funis umbilicalis ex apice fructus per seminis dorsum de- 
currens, basique superatà ramosus, ramis per seminis latera 
interiora reflexis. Integumentum crassum, coriaceum. Al- 
bumen durissimum, album. Embryo subcentralis, rectus. 
-. Cotyledones, altero minore, conduplicatæ. Radicula incras- 
sata, supera. s 
. The generic name Kend is also given, with a specific appella- 
tion prefixed, to another tree, which I think is the Diospyros cor- 
difolia of Dr. Roxburgh (Hort. Beng. 40.), a name that has been 
adopted by other botanists (Willd. Sp. Pl. iv. 1141. Enc. Meth. 
- v. 452. Hort. Kew. v. 479.). I have presented specimens of 
this tree to the library at the India House (Cat. No. 2391). In 
the Hindwi dialect of Behar it is called Makar Kend; but 
according to Dr. Carey, in the Bengalese dialect it is called 
Bun Gab, that is, the wild Embryopteris; yet it has no very 
striking resemblance either to this plant or to the others called 
Kend. This, besides, agrees entirely with Mr. Brown's cha- 
racter of Diospyros; and as the differences between it and the 
species already described may lead to a more proper discrimi- 
nation of genera than at present exists among the Ebenacee, I 
shall here describe it. — 
VOL. XV. Q Diospyros 
