172 The Flowering Plants of Western India. 



in the last, "berry yellow, like a large plum, densely hairy when 

 young. Mowa, ippi, ilupi. 



Dharwar, Canara, and the South of India generally, 1 where the 

 flowers and seeds are used for the same purposes as those of the 

 last further north. H. calls this and another species " Indian butter 

 trees." 



3. MIMUSOPS. 



1. M. elenqi. A handsome tree but growing to no great 

 size, leaves elliptic oblong, dark green, shining, flowers white, 

 fragrant, calyx rusty, berry size of an acorn, one or two-seeded. 

 Bakhor> bdrsoli, taindu, wdoli. 



Ghauts and S. Konkan, not very common, but often cultivated for 

 the flowers. Deccan common (#.) Sometimes called the Indian 

 medlar tree. Sanscrit, kesdra. 



2. M. hexandra. A small stiff tree of no beanty, leaves 

 leathery, smooth and shining, obovate or emarginate, flowers 

 small, white, berry like an acorn, yellow, seeds one or two 

 oblong black. Hay an, rdnjan, karni. 



Very common in N. Konkan and Guzerat. Deccan peninsula 



Chrysophyllum, calyx and corolla lobes and stamens 5 or 6. 

 * 0. Roxburghii, a very large tree, leaves lanceolate acute, flowers 

 minute, pale yellow, corolla rusty with hairs, fruit like a small apple, 

 yellow, pulpy. Tarsi,tarsiphal. Chorla Ghaut and Sunda jungles (D.). 

 Isonandra, calyx and corolla lobes 4, stamens 8. * I. candnlleana, a 

 small tree, leaves oblong blunt-pointed, flowers small, dull white, 

 rusty, berry oblong, small. Dichopsis, calyx lobes 6 in 2 series, 

 corolla lobes 6, stamens 12 to 18 with connective. * D. elliptica, 

 (Sassia e. D.) leaves elliptic or obovate, flowers 4 to 8 together, 

 filaments hairy, berry oblong, fleshy. Panchoti, palld. Bombay and 

 Canara. This is called the Indian gutta-percha tree, the milky 

 juice of D. gutta being the true gutta-percha. 



OEDER 71. EBENACEJS. The Ebony family. 



Leaves alternate entire without stipules, flowers regular, 

 axillary, usually unisexual, pedicels jointed under the flower, 

 calyx and corolla 3 to 7 lobed, stamens various, fruit fleshy 

 with calyx attached. 



Ebony, from which this order (which is nearly allied to the last) 

 takes it name, is the heart wood of different species of Diospyros, and 

 is remarkable for its great weight and hardness, as well as for its 

 blackness, which has long been proverbial 



" By heaven, thy love is black as ebony." Love's Labour Lost. 



