STYRACE. 369 
D. Kaki, a tree of China and Japan, cultivated in some 
parts of India, has an edible fruit which is known as the 
Chinese Persimmon. The fruit is green, globular, from two 
to three inches in diameter, and when ripe has an agreeable 
sweetness and flavour. The dried and powdered fruit con- 
tained 54°2 per cent. of sugar reducing Fehling’s solution, an 
organic acid, no tannin, and a colouring matter soluble in 
ether similar to that of the fruits of D. montana. 
The following shows the proximate analyses of the dried 
and powdered fruits freed from the seeds of four species of 
Diospyros :— 
Embryopteris. Tupru. montana. Kaki. 
2°1 
Ether extract 1°32 : 10:0 1°5 
Spirit extract ......cccsee  12°4 a Os 6°8 66°1 
Water extract ......sec0s 7°5 4:4 63 11°5 
Albuminous matter, Ws, OS ae 16°4 12°5 30 
Organic residue 61°9 65°1 58°6 141 
Ash 4°9 PT HB 38 
1000 = 1000 100-0 =100°0 
STY RACE, 
STYRAX BENZOIN, Dryander. 
Fig.—Bentl. and Trim., t, 169. Gum Benjamin tree (Eng.), 
Aliboufier de Benjoin ( Fr.). 
Hab.—Sumaitra, Java, Siam. Gum Benzoin. 
Vernacular.—Luban, Ud (Ind. Bazars). 
: History, Uses, &c.—Benzoin or Gum Benjamin 
does not appear to have been known to the ancient Hindus, 
nor is there any evidence that the Greeks and Romans, or even. 
Il.—47 
