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238 NOTES ON EBENACES. 
2.—New B.G., 520.—T. Edmonston in W. D. Hooker’s Notes on 
Norway, 1839, pp. 111-117.—Id. in Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., 
1841, p. 247. 
3.—R. Tate’s plants in the British Museum. 
NOTES ON EBENACEZ;; WITH DESCRIPTION OF A NEW 
SPECIES. 
By W. P. Hrery, M.A. 
Tue quantity of new material which has accumulated during the 
year and a third that has elapsed since the completion of my 
Monograph of Ebenacee, is fortunately much less than what reached 
me during the year of printing and in time to be included in it; still 
a few particulars require to be added in order to bring the informa- 
tion well up to the present time. ; 
With regard td the economic products of the family, it has long 
ago been related by Thunberg in his travels, that. the berries of the — 
Cape Guarri bush, Euclea undulata, Thunb. when bruised and 4 
fermented, yield vinegar ; modern writers, however, do not mention it, — 
and the practice has probably fallen into disuse. a 
The Kei Apple, an indigenous Natal fruit which furnishes a good 
substitute for currant jelly, has been classed in some catalogues a8 
belonging to an Ebenaceous plant, from the general appearance of its 
fruit ; it is really'a member of the Family Bivinee, and is the berry 
of Aberta Caffra, Hook. f. & Harv. ‘ 
In Bengal the leaves of Diospyros Tupru, Buch., a species which 
is the D. esculenta of Rosenthal, and which Dr. Brandis deems identi- 
cal with D. melanoxylon, Roxb., are sometimes used as dishes by the 
natives; and in the North-West Provinces of British India, accord- 
ing to Dr. J. L. Stewart, ploughs combs and cogs for wheels are 
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The fruit of Diospyros montana, Roxb., is not eaten, | 
regarded as poisonous, but is used in the Punjab as an application to 
the hands in case of boils, : 
_ The ebony tree gum, known by the name of Kendka Gani 
: : P n the gums and resinous products of India, pu» 
lished in 1871 by the Government of India, to be used to remove ob- 
structions of the vision. 
With regard to the affinities of Ebenacee, it has been suggested to 
o compare with it the ovular structure of the group formed by. 
Ebenacee on the one hand, and to the suggested Orders 02 the other. , 
n the jungles of India, a botanical correspondent writes. er a 
only order with which a person in passing is very likely to confoun’ 
Ebenacee is Guttifere, to which, in young fruit for imstance, ©” 
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