. A manual of Indian botany. Botany. 238 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
. A manual of Indian botany. Botany. 238 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. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Bose, G. C. London, Blackie & Son Ltd.
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