COROMANDEL, or Calamander, the produce of Ceylon, and the coast of India, is shipped in logs and planks from Bombay and Madras. The figure is between that of rose-wood and zebra-wood; the colour of the ground is usually of a red hazel brown, described also as chocolate brown, with black stripes and marks. It is said to be so hard as almost to require grinding rather than cutting; this is not exactly true, as the veneer saws cut it without particular difficulty, it is a very handsome furniture wood and turns well: it is considered to be a variety of ebony.

Mr. Laird says there are three varieties of Coromandel; the Calamander or Coromandel, which is the darkest, and the most commonly seen in this country, the Calemberri, which is lighter coloured and striped, and the

Omander, the ground of which is as light as English yew, but of a redder cast, with a few slight veins and marks of darker tints. He says, the wood is scarce and almost or quite limited to Ceylon; that it grows between the clefts of rocks - this renders it difficult to extract the roots, which are the most beautiful parts of the trees.

The Calamander-wood tree is Diospyros hirsuta, and Kadum Beriya is D. Ebenaster, according to Moore's Catalogue of Ceylon Plants, and therefore of the same genus as the true ebony.