i is, well. known. that ue heart MR A ains many diront species 
at Diospyros constitute the ebony of commerce: -There are.10 endemic 
 gpecies of Diospyros at Madagascar, but itis impossible to identify 
| e.. of.. eem yielding commercial ebony. Mr. "Godfrey 
tes 1 
nowr country is ebony, and in this my house i is the largest 
rator. Hitherto we are dependent. for ro on the French 
'erman ho ood 
' different species of dium alum: Indian 
from Santalum album, L., and West Australian 
Fuso s. 
Sandal-woods ".is given by rc Petersen. in 
J aceutical Society, vol. rds [3], p. 
! “According to Mr. Baker there i is no ies of Cien — from 
gascar, Pt wi 
mem name of -Hasoran 0, while another wood 
ARA isa specimen of wood labelled * Santal 
M 
esie from Madagascar and Zanzibar into 
to be used fe burning the bodie — 
specimen om Professor MacOwa 
si d . Mr. J. Heathcote, from 
received February 6, 1886, labelled ** Wood like sandal-wood (Groton 
sp.). Ji is ground and mixed. with water, and used by the natives 
at Inh elves.’ 
ese latter are not properly gadno They are mentioned as 
wating the possible source of what- is called sandal- wood t 
adagas The correspondence is as follows :— 
Turk Fo OREIGN Orrice to tie GARDENS, Kew. 
reign Office, March 19, uet ui 
of ini p^ instant I am direet ted b 
herewith 
EX E Taster. 
a yon t th I pe ies sent tim 
aving been ncessio: export. dor fom th the 
. all that i is pups is smuggled out tof the country. 
cm El gir CR IT 
Lewis Ransome (of -= pa of A. Ransome & Co., Chelsea) has been 
i t Kew for a botanical survey of the. Te. contession in the 
an, Nort h-east QUE of M: mcg 
