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(2) Heartwood regularly streaked black and brown or gray: kurzii, quaesita, 
oocarpa , thwaitesii, gardneri, insignis, oppositifolia, undulata. 
(3) Ileartwood very small, merely black streaks in the brownish-gray or gray 
wood: embryopteris, foliolosa, sylvatica, ehretioides, microphylla, humilis, ovali- 
folia, kaki, tupru. 
(4) Heartwood none, wood red, white, gray, or yellowish: martabanica, mon- 
tana, toposia, foliolosa, lotus, cliloroxylon , oppositifolia, candolleana, nilagirica, 
crumenata, pyrrhocarpa. 
Ceylon ebonies . — The ebonies, perhaps, reach their highest development 
on the Island of Ceylon. They have been carefully studied and H. 
Wright’s “The Genus Diospyros in Ceylon; its Morphology, Anatomy 
and Taxonomy” 4 is much the most complete work of its sort. 
Diospyros ebenum Konig. Itam (M.) ; ebbenhout; ebony. 
Ceylon, south India, Sumatra, Malacca, the Moluccas, Celebes. 
This is the best-known ebony tree. There is very little of it cut in 
India, the trees not being very common, and being found only here and 
there and of small size; but in Ceylon it is one of the chief woods, the 
average sales being 300 tons yearly. When the wood of this species is 
evenly black, it is sold as ebony; when it is at all streaked, it is sold as 
“bastard” ebony. Used for turning, cabinet work, piano keys, rulers, 
walking sticks, brushes and general furniture, in Europe; and in China, 
for chopsticks, pipes and carved stands. 
Wright 146-151 ; Van Eed. 168. 
The following are a few of the best-known commercial ebonies. 
Diospyros melanoxylon Roxb. 
British India and Ceylon. 
This produces most of the ebony that comes from British India. It 
is rare in Ceylon. 
Gamb. 461, tab. IX, fig. 6; Nord. IX; Stone 154, pi. X, fig. 85; Wright 174-178. 
Diospyros quaesita Thw. Calamander or Coromandel wood. 
Ceylon. 
Bed, hazel-brown or chocolate-brown, with handsome black stripes. 
This very beautiful wood is found only in Ceylon and seems not to be 
plentiful there, but it has set a widely recognized standard of beauty. It 
is used for a great many different kinds of ornaments. 
Wright 166-171; Boulger 178. 
D. kurzii of the Andaman Islands, is said to furnish wood very much like 
calamander in ornamental value. D. oocarpa and D. affinis of Ceylon are also 
said to approach calamander in ornamental value, but they have a much larger 
proportion of the useless sapwood. The camagon, Diospyros discolor Willd., of 
the Philippines (Phil. Woods 380), is not to be distinguished in appearance from 
calamander. It is more plentiful and is at least as good a wood. 
4 Ann Roy. Bot. Gard. Peradeniya 2 (1904-05) 1-204. 
