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A tree under the name of Isinewey is said to be vay prevalent 
all over the western side of [Central] Province S. eria, not 
usually of large size, wood hard and reddish-brown, pue at 
2d.-31d. per foot on the English market as a mahogany (Kew Bull. 
1908, p. 194). 
Ebony is one of the chief peice woods of commerce and the 
name as applied to the various wo that of 
mahogany. The chief sources are W. Kleita Gabi Cameroon, 
Rio del Rey, Old Calabar, etc. (Diospyros Dendo and D. mespili- 
formis); Ceylon, India, Macassar? (D. E a 
(Diospyros haplostylis, D. Perrieri, etc. =: e also ** Mozambique 
Ebon ny (Dalbergia melanoæylon) p- 231. All the ebonies of 
commerce, however, agree in being heavier than water, in the dark 
colour, pete black, sometimes brown, in the hard close texture 
and small billet like sections. Rough billets 3-4 ft. in length, 
21-8 in. in diam., 45-50 pieces to the ton, are characteristic of 
Gaboon and Cameroon Ebony; irregular logs 2}-3 ft. in Er 
for Rio del 
45-60 pieces to the ton, for el Rey, etc., etc. 
Bull. 1908, p. 185). Stained woods of close ga as Box Dara: 
sempervirens), Pear (Pyrus communis), etc., are not uncommon to 
meet the demand for ebony, but the oe "article can easily be 
recognised in being black throughou 
The uses generally of the wood are for cabinet work—inlaying 
chiefly, ps d keys, backs of brushes, chessmen, rulers, 
walking sticks 
Ref. S ere and Its Varieties,’ Simmonds in The Art 
Journal, 1872. A. Monograph of Ebenaceae, Hiern, pp. 1 
is. i.-xi. (Univ. Press, Cambridge, 1873). = Madagascar 
Ebony," Kew Bull. 1888, pp. 135-136.———'' Ebony ” (various) 
in oe of Commerce, Stone, pp. 150-155. —— Ebene, , Dubard, 
L’ Agric. prat. pays c chauds, xi. part 2, 1911, ‘‘ Etude de 
ui Bois Types," pp. 116-119. 
SALVADORACEAE. 
SALVADORA, Linn. . 
Salvadora persica, Garcin; Fi. Trop. Afr. IV. Sect. 1, p. 23. 
- Wi ; , E 2 
Hust. t. 181 (S. UT E Adansonia, ix. t. 10, ff. 4-8 
(fl. fr.). 
Vernac. names.—Arak Sere Speke and Grant); Arak (Arabie 
Palestine, Vester and Co.; Arab, Dymoc ck, Warden and Hooper, 
Sudan, Imp. Inst.); Darakht-i Miswák (Persia, Royle, Dymock, 
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