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In conclusion, I take this opportunity of expressing my 

 thanks to Mr. J. C. Willis, for first suggesting the genus 

 Diospyros to me, and for the help received during the 

 progress of this work while enjoying the tenure of my 

 appointment as Scientific Assistant. I have also to thank 

 Messrs. A. F. Broun, F. Lewis, H. P. C. Armitage, A. M. 

 Walker, A. M. Fontyne, and other officers of the Ceylon 

 Forest Department for the time they have spent conducting 

 me through their districts and for the many specimens 

 received from them. For similar favours I must also 

 express my gratitude to Messrs. W. P. Hiern ; J. H. Maiden, 

 Director of the Botanic Gardens, Sydney; C. A. Barber, 

 Government Botanist, Madras; Major Prain, Superinten- 

 dent, Royal Botanic Gardens, Calcutta ; to Mr. J. Wilson, 

 China ; Mr. W. C. Curtis, Penang ; and to the Conservator 

 of Forests of the Andaman Islands. 



The drawings have been made from fresh material, mainly 

 by Mudaliyar William de Alwis, late Draughtsman at 

 Peradeniya, to whom my best thanks are due. Plate V. was 

 kindly photographed by Mr. H. F. Macmillan, Curator, 

 Peradeniya, to whom I am grateful for this and many other 

 favours in connection with supplies and propagation of 

 seedlings. 



LITERATURE. 



Beddome, Ic. PI., Ind. Or., t. CXXXV., 1871. 



Belohoubek, Ebenholz, in Sitz-Ber. k. bohm. Gesellsch. d. Wiss. in 

 Prag, 1883. 



Bertolini, Miscellanea Botanica, XII., 1849. 

 Blanco, Flora de Filipinas, 1837. 

 Blume, Java Diospyros, 1825-1826. 

 Brandis, Conf. Ind. Timbers, Col. Exh., 1886. 

 Broun, Ceylon Ebony, Indian Forester, July, 1899. 

 Brown, Prodromus Florae Novae Hollandiae, 1810. 

 Burmann, Thesaurus Zeylanicus, 1679. 

 Choisy, Memoires des Ternstroemiacese, 1855. 

 Dalzell, Kew Journal of Botany, Vol. IV., 1852. 

 Species of India, 1861. 



