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CLASSIFICATION 



oxylon, which grows in the hills of Bengal, Orissa, 

 Bhutan, and Nepal. Diospyros Kaki is a Japanese 

 tree very commonly grown about Calcutta as a fruit 

 tree. Diospyros Evibryopteris is known in Bengal as 

 gaub tree; the astringent viscid mucus of its fruit is 

 used all over Bengal for paying or smearing the 

 bottoms of boats and for steeping fish-nets in order to 

 make them water-tight. Diospyros cordifolia is ban- 



gaub. Maba buxifolia (fig. 

 204) is a common tree in 

 Orissa. 



Nat. Order 10. StyracecB. 

 — Distinguished from 



Ebenacece in having her- 

 maphrodite white flowers, 

 numerous stamens, single 

 style, and the ovary in- 

 ferior. It is represented in 

 Bengal by lodh {Symplocos 

 racemosa), a tree the bark 

 of which is used in dyeing 

 and is sometimes powdered 

 for abir ; and by booree of 

 Sylhet {Symplocos spicata),- 

 a tree, the hard seeds of which are strung together 

 as beads and put round the necks of children. 



Nat. Order 11. MyrsinacecB. — Trees with alternate 

 simple gland-dotted leaves with small regular flowers. 

 Stamens 4 to 5, opposite the corolla- lobes, ovary 

 superior, i-celled with free-central placentation, fruits 

 succulent, ^giceras majus (hulsi) is a small tree in 

 the delta of the Ganges characterized by breathing- 

 roots standing upright out of the soil all round the 

 tree. The stamens are monadelphous. Ardisia 

 humilis (ban-jam) is a small tree. The Order is closely 



Figr. 204. —Maha buxifolia 



