532 POLYANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Diospyrus. 
bifid. Berry round, of the size of a small apple, yellow, 
pulpy. Seeds as many as eight, immersed in the pulp, 
kidney-shaped, sharp on the inner straight edge. 
The black part of the wood of this tree is too well 
known to require any description in this place. — It is 
only the centre of large trees that is black and valua- 
ble ; which part is more or less in quantity, according 
to the age of the tree. The outside wood is white and 
soft, which time and insects soon destroy, leaving the 
black untouched. The ripe fruit is eaten by the natives ; 
it has an astringent taste, and is not very palatable. The 
bark is-also astringent. Powdered and mixed with pep- 
per, it is.given for the dysentery by the native doctors, 
4. D. tomentosa. Roxb. Pe, 
Dicecous, all the tender parts very downy. Leaves 
opposite, and alternate, oval, entire. MALE PEDUNCLES 
three-flowered. Calyx and corol gibbous, four-toothed. 
Stamens twelve, ona receptacle. FEMALE solitary, with 
the calyx and corol five-parted ; berry as far as five cable 
Kakindoo, the Sanscrit name. 
Beng. Kyou. 
A native of the northern pales of Bengal, where it 
grows to be a tree of great size ; the wvod is black, hard, 
and heavy ; in short the Ebony of that country. In @ 
garden at Allipore, formerly belonging to Mr. Hastings, 
are some of the oldest trees about Calcutta. They may 
be about thirty years old. The trunk and whole tee 
very erect, tall and slender, not unlike the form of the 
common Cypress. The leaves are completely deciduo™s 
during the cold season, and appear again wie the 
flowers in April, 
Trunk of the trees just mentioned, erect, ional not 
perfectly straight, with deeply cracked, spongy 
Leaves sub-opposite and alternate, petioled, oval, oa 
tire, very sown while young, pantcneaiy underneath ; 
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