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wood. Although slow-growing, and not generally known in the 

 Islands, there is no doubt that the black persimmon has horti- 

 cultural potentialities of no mean rank, and that some day this 

 fine fruit will be accorded due recognition. It has been described 

 briefly and figured by Mr. Gerrit P. Wilder, in his "Fruits of the 

 Hawaiian Islands" — unfortunately under the name of Diospyros 

 decandra — but he does not indicate the possibilities of this fruit. 

 It belongs to the persimmon or ebony family. The genus 

 Diospyros (literally "Jove's grain" alluding to the edible fruit), 

 comprises about 190 species, mostly tropical and subtropical. • The 

 so-called "Hawaiian ebony" is the Lama, Maba Sandzmcensis 

 DC, which occurs on all the larger islands, but is confined to this 

 group. It is characteristic of both wet and dry regions, and is 

 fairly plentiful in the mountains back of Honolulu. The name of 

 the Palama district of Honolulu, formerly called Ka-pa-lama 

 (literally "the sacred enclosure of lama wood") refers to a cer- 

 tain sacred or tabu enclosure of this wood. The wood, like that 

 of many others in this family, is dark brown, fine-textured, very 

 hard and durable, and was prized in ancient Hawaii for sacred 

 purposes. The common persimmon of the mainland United 

 States is Diospyros Virginiana Linn. ; the Japanese persimmon, 

 cultivated in California and in season in the Honolulu markets, 

 is D. Kaki Linn. f. The true ebony of commerce and fine cabinet- 

 work is D. Ebeniim Koenig, of the East Indies and Ceylon. There 

 are numerous other species and varieties known to American 

 horticulturists. 



Vaughan MacCaughey, 

 Professor of Botany, College of Hawaii, Honolulu. 



BY AUTHORITY. 



PROCLAMATION 



OF FOREST RESERVE, DISTRICT OF SOUTH HILO, ISLAND AND 

 COUNTY OF HAWAII, TERRITORY OF HAWAII. 



Under and by virtue of the authority vested in me by the provisions 

 of Chapter 37 of the Eevised Laws of Hawaii of 1915, and of every other 

 power me hereunto enabling, I, LUCIUS E. PINKHAM, Governor of 

 Hawaii, with the approval of a majority of the Board of Commissioners 

 of Agriculture and Forestry, having held the hearing of which notice has 

 been duly given all as in said laws provided, do herebv set apart as a 

 forest reserve to be called the PANAEWA FOREST RESEEVE, sub- 

 ject to existing rights, a portion of that certain piece of government land 

 called Waiakea, in the District of South Hilo, Island and County of 

 Hawaii, Territory of Hawaii, containing an area of 1750 acres, more or 

 less, more particularly described by and on maps made by the Govern- 

 ment Survey Department of the Territory of Hawaii, which said maps 

 are now on file in the said Survey Department marked Government Sur- 

 vey Reg. Map No. 1713 and ''Panaewa Forest Reserve," and a descrip- 

 tion accompanying the same numbered C. S. F. 2722, which said descrip- 

 tion, now on file in said Survey Department, is as follows: 



