Diospyros.'] 



55. EBENACEiE. 



213 



Dumerous, very fine, transverse bars indistinct. No ebony heart-wood, 

 even in the largest trees. Weighs 54 lbs. to the cubic foot. Woundfi? 

 in the trunk caused by broken branches or cutting instruments rapidly 

 turn very black, D. pruriens, and some other species of Bios'pyros 

 act in a similar manner, locally forming a kind of black ebony-like 

 wood. 



This tree is common in North Kdnara in the evergreen forests between 

 the Gairsoppah and Dodmune Ghats. It flowers and fruits during the 

 hot season, March-May. Flowering specimens sent to Kew were doubt- 

 fully referred to D, crumenata, Thw. ; but specimens sent to Dr. Prain 

 in Calcutta were declared to be exactly similar to those of D. crumenatOi 

 from Ceylon. 



11. D. CandoUeana, Wight Ic. tt. 1221-2 ; Fl. Br. I. 3. 566 ; Dalz. 



& Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 142 ; Bedd. Fl. Sylv. 144 ; D. canarica, Bedd. FL 

 Sylv. 145. Karigidcla^ K. 



Western ghats from the Konkan to Quilon. Throughout the Kon- 

 kan and North Kanara, in evergreen forests, common near the coast at 

 Karwar. Fl. Apl., July. A small tree in the scrub forests near the 

 coast of Kanara, often associated with Eugenia caryopJiyllcea. Wood 

 olive-green or yellowish, soft, light, smooth. Pores small not numerous, 

 equally distributed. Medullary rays moderately broad and fine crossed by 

 very distinct, wavy, continuous close lines of light-coloured tissue. 

 Weighs about 40 lbs. to the cub. ft. The rays are much broader than 

 in any of the other species of Diospyros I have examined. Frait ripe 

 Nov. ; 3-4 seeded ; calyx-lobes reflexed, coriaceous j seeds with a brown, 

 thin skin ; albumen horny in centre. 



12. D. paniculata, Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 141; Fl. Br. I. 3. 570: 

 Bedd. Fl. Sylv. 114. Kuri koomar, K. 



In the evergreen forests of the Konkan and North Kanara, frequent 

 in the forests near the Nilkund and Gairsoppah ghats. Fl. Nov.-Dec. 

 Fr. size of a pigeon's egg, seated on the auricled foliaceous calyx. Apl.- 

 June. Seeds ovoid; albumen equable, horny: cotyledons foliaceous. 

 A tree with a cylindrical tall stem. Bark smooth, dark coloured ; inner 

 hard, reddish-brown, -20 in, thick. Young parts, fruit, &c., covered with 

 sooty hairs. 



D. Kahi, Linn. f. Suppl. 434 ; Fl. Br. I. 3. 555 ; Grab. Cat. Bomb. PI. 

 107. Chinese Fig and Plum or the Keg Fig of Japan. Cultivated near 

 Bombay. Fruit yellow, globose, size of an orange, edible. A native of 

 the Khasia mountains. Upper Assam and Burma. 



D. qucesita, Thw. Enum. PI. Zeyl. 179. A large tree from South 

 India and Ceylon, furnishes the valuable and ornamental " Calamander " 

 wood. 



Oedee 56. STYRACELa:; 



Trees or shrubs. Leaves alternate. Flowers hermphrodite, re- 

 gular. Calyx-tube superior or inferior; limb 4-5-tootbed or truu- 



