Crossword-Solution: DIOSPYROS 9 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 15

The country about his bungalow is very pretty, from the number of wooded hills and large trees, especially of banyan and peepul, noble oak-like Mahowa (_Bassia_), _Nauclea,_ Mango, and _Ficus infectoria._ These are all scattered, however, and do not form forest, such as in a stunted form clothes the hills, consisting of _Diospyros, Terminalia, Gmelina, Nauclea parvifolia, Buchanania,_ etc.

The summit was clothed with long grass, trees of _Diospyros_ and _Terminalia,_ and here and there the _Boswellia._ On the precipitous rocks the curious white-barked _Sterculia foetida_ "flung its arms abroad," leafless, and looking as if blasted by lightning.

Wherever the alluvium is deep on these hills, neither _Catechu, Olibanum, Butea, Terminalia, Diospyros,_ dwarf-palm, or any of those plants are to be met with, which abound wherever the rock is superficial, and irrespectively of its mineral characters.

Besides Sal there was abundance of _Butea, Diospyros, Terminalia,_ and _Symplocos,_ with the dwarf _Phoenix_ palm, and occasionally _Cycas._ Tigers, wild elephants, and the rhinoceros, are said to be found here; but we saw none.

Such facts as this disturb our preconceived notions of the geographical distribution of the most familiar tribes of plants, and throw great doubt on the conclusions which fossil plants are supposed to indicate.] _Garcinia,_ and _Diospyros_ trees.