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more plentiful in Gujarat and Rajwara. The Mowah tree, from the 

 flowers of which the Mowra spirit is distilled. The seeds yield a 

 large quantity of thick oil. The wood is hard and very strong, 

 and proper for haves of wheels, Roxb. The oil is used in making 

 soap in the Kaira Zillah. 



5. MIMUSOPS, Linn. 



1. Elengi, Linn. sp. p 497. — A rather small but handsome 

 tree, with dark-green shining leaves, elliptic-oblong, obtusely acu- 

 minated, glabrous ; pedicels axillary fascicled ; flowers white, the 

 calyxes covered with rusty-coloured tomentum ; berry ovoid, 1 to 

 2-seeded. Wild in the ravines of the Ghauts; in fruit in September. 

 Native names " Buckhool," " Wowlee," &c. Roxb. Fl Ind. ii, 237. 



2. Hexandra, Roxb. PI Cor. i, p ItJ, t. 15.— A small rigid 

 tree; leaves obovate-eUiptic, emarginate, smooth and shining on 

 both sides, 3 to 5 inches long ; flowers axillary, 1 to 6, on pedicels 

 shorter than the petiole ; berry of the size and shape of an olive, 

 1 to 2-seeded, yellow edible. Roxb. Fl Ind. ii, 238. The Concans 

 and Gujarat. Native name " Kernee." The wood is tough, and 

 used for making sugar-mills, &c. 



LXXXV. SYMPLOCACE^. 

 1. HOPEA, Linn. 



1. Spicata, DC. Prorf. 8, 254. — A middle-sized tree ; leaves 

 oblong lanceolate acute, serrated, glabrous ; racemes axillary, nearly 

 simple, scarcely longer than the petiole ; flowers yellowish-white ; 

 drupe size of a pea, urceolate ; seeds fluted. On the Ghauts, 

 pretty common. Syn. Symplocos spicata, Roxb. Fl Ind. ii, 540 ; 

 Eugenia laurina, Willd. sp. ii, 967 ; Bobua laurina, DC. Prod. 

 ili, '24 ; Myrtus laurina, Retz. Obs. iv, p 27. 



2. Racemosa, DC. Prod. 8, 255. — A small tree ; leaves oblong 

 lanceolate-acuminate, glabrous, subdenticulated, shining above; 

 racemes simple axillary, equalling the petiole, hairy ; drupe narrow- 

 oblong, smooth, half- an inch long, purple when ripe. On the 

 Ghauts, common. Syn. Symplocos racemosa, Roxb. loc. cit. p 

 539 ; S theffifolia, Don. Prod. Fl Nep. p 145. 



LXXXVI. EBENACE^. 

 1. DIOSPYROS, Dalech. 



I. D Chlohoxylon, Roxb. Cor. PI p 38, t. 49. — A tree, with 

 deeply cracked bark, sometimes with the branches thorny ; branch- 



