BOTANY. 201 



the wood in the southern provinces, not inferior to the 

 ebony of commerce. 

 Diospyros. 



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MAULMA1N EBONY. 



There is an inferior kind of ebony often seen at Maul- 

 main, which the natives do not call by the same name 

 that they do the trees which produce the good ebony, 

 though evidently a product of the same genus. A similar 

 wood at Tavoy is oiten denominated iron wood. 

 Diospyrus. 



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MOUNTAIN EBONY. 



Loudon calls bauhinia, mountain ebony, and the wood, 

 though not much like ebony, is quite hard, and might be 

 applied to many useful purposes. To the five species 

 which are enumerated among the flowering plants, may 

 be added a small timber tree bearing a sour leaf, and a 

 pod containing sweet pulp, like the honey locust of Ame- 

 rica. I have not seen the flower, but the twin leaf is that 

 of a bauhinia. 



Bauhinia. 



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MAHOGANY. 



The genuine mahogany tree may be seen in some of 

 our gardens, where it appears to flourish. 

 Swietenia Mahagoni. 



TENASSERIM MAHOGANY. 



The gum kino tree, pterocarpus, or padouk, producer 

 a timber which in its finest specimens bears so strong a 

 resemblance to mahogany that a visitor mistook it for ma- 

 hogany, and recorded it as such in the book of his travels. 

 At Maulmain, it is called red-wood, and one of the trees, 

 for there are two species, differs very slightly from the 

 tree which yields the Andaman red-wood, of which Rox- 



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