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resemblance is very striking. On account of this striking resemblance, 
the fruits of the Indian trees Diospyros Embryopteris, Pers, 
than to Ebenacee, and of the second part closer to Ericacee than to 
enace, 
With regard to new species and varieties, the few following must 
be mentioned. Mr. Kurz in the Journal of the Asiatic Society of 
_ Bengal, vol. xlii., part 2, page 88, 1873, has published as a new 
Species his Gunisanthus mollis, a plant from Martaban, which he 
previously noted in his manuscript as Diospyros mollis ; the charac- 
ters given by him do not extend to the female flower or fruit, nor does 
he give any particulars relating to the interior of the male flowers. 
Tam, therefore, unable eitherto determine the distinct f the species, 
or, having merged the genus Gunisanthus in Diospyros, to assi, 
Ita eee position in the latter; it may, however, be closely 
. i. . 
Yar. mollis of Wallich, which occurs in the Tavoy district. There is 
another Diospyros mollis, one that had escaped my notice, from the 
Shan Coun y on the borders of Burmah and Siam, published and 
the 
Society of India, p. 145 ; thisis the Black-dye plant of the Shans. 
The Shans y : : : i 
es, however, mix a sma portion of iron-filings to give it an 
additional hue, and at other times lime, according to their fancy. The 
black dye is produced from the pulp growing round the plum-like 
ich i a very light colour inside, until broken and exposed 
© air and sun, when i ally assumes an intense black 
= Further information about this valuable plant is much 
ed, 
th Mr. Bolus, of Graaf Reinet, South Africa, has sent to Kew from 
‘4e hills of his own neighbourhood a specimen, no. 616, of an interest- 
mg shrub with an edible fruit; it is a new variety of a common Cape 
Plant, and it may be called Royena hirsuta, Linn., var. rigida ; or it 
a Prove to be a closely allied but distinct species. It differs from 
_ me type by a more rigid habit with numerous patent branches, by 
: Wer calyx-lobes, and by.a less hairy corolla with lanceolate- 
Bg lobes. I have not seen the fruit. 7 
oe "i Bolus has also drawn my attention to the presence of little — 
ow St the base of the ovary in another specimen of his, no. 470, 
