186 Ebenacee. [ Diospyros. 
to ebony but superior to the yellow and white woods already described. 
It is rarely felled even where very abundant, and most natives dis- 
regard it entirely as a source of durable timber.’’ (Wright l. c. p. 191.) 
19. D. affinis Thw. Kaluvella, Semel Panachai, S. 
(Wright). 
Viriniya, near Bibile; Alutnuvara; Kantalai; Kalugalla; Kurune- 
gala; Vavuniya. 
‘The coloured heartwood is usually small but occasionally very 
good; one tree measuring 24-4 metres high (80 feet) and nearly 
2 metres circumference (63 feet) possessed a small black heartwood 
only 100 mm. (4 inches) diameter; in some specimens much smaller 
than the foregoing the heartwood was large, streaked brown, and 
probably sold as ‘‘ bastard ’’ ebony, such samples are often equal to 
our best woods from an ornamental point of view.’’ (Wright 1. c. 
p. 196.) 
Page 102.— 
20. D. crumenata Thw. 
Hantane; Ganoruva; Kalugalla; Ambalava. 
‘“ Timber.—This is of medium quality and belongs to the red kind. 
The red colour intensifies from without inwards and local black strands 
occur here and there. The coloured heartwood is not usually large; 
some specimens, however, yield a large black and brown streaked 
heartwood of considerable beauty and value. The sapwood is much 
less durable than the heartwood, in consequence of the wide lumined 
tracheal and parenchymatous elements there existing. The heartwood 
contains a fair percentage of fibres of narrow lumen. Trees of this 
species are certainly worth a little attention judging from many excel- 
lent specimens which I have seen at Ambalava, near Gampola.”’ 
(Wright 1. c. p. 197.) 
Also in Western India (Cooke). 
Page 104.—For Symplocos Linn. read: 
Stamens free; corolla tube short; infl. usually 
racemose . 2 ; : : : : . I. SYMPLOCOS. 
Stamens connate in a tube; corolla tube long; 
fls. usually solitary, pendulous . : : . 2, CORDYLOBLASTE. 
For Symplocos obtusa Wall. read: 
Leaves 3-5 in. long; racemes many-flowered : 
Leaves rounded at base; petiole very short, purple 2. S. CUCULLATA. 
Leaves cuneate at base; petiole longer, yellow  . 2a. S. Major. 
Leaves 1-3 in. long: 
Racemes many-flowered ‘ ; . 2b. S, FURCATA. 
Flowers sub-solitary ; : : : : . 2c. S. OBOVATA. 
2. S. cucullata Brand, Symplocaceze in Engl. Pflanzenreich IV, 
242, p. 56 (1901). Lodhra cucullata Miers, in Journ. Linn. Soc. XVII, 
p- 301 (1880). Symplocos obtusa var. cucullata Thw. Enum. p. 185 
(1860). 
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