Garu/ja.] 



XXXVI. BURSERACE^. (Alfred W. Bennett.) 629 



?an.V ~f Leaves 1 ft. or more, pubescent when youn£:, afterwards glabrous. 



in«pl^ 7? °^; compound, pubescent. Caiyx-teeth ovate, pubescent. Petals linear, 

 abotii I ^^'^ *'^^ caljx- teeth. Bisk completelj clothing the tubeof caljx. Stamens 

 (^mLTJ°A^ ^ *]i® petals. Ovary ovoid, narrowina; into the hairy style; stigma 

 ««P'tate, 5-lobed. i)r«^;e black, " size of a gooseberry.'"' .3 J > & 





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4. BAZiSAMODENDRON, KuntL 



^^Isamiferous often spiny trees or shrubs. Leaves aJternate, l-5-folioLite 



imparipinnate ; leaflets sessile, oblique, crenate or serrate. Flowers 



3-4-t P?'yf ^™«us» fasciculate, on short petioles or sessile. Cali/x tubular, 



rj-iootUed, persistent. Fetals S-A, valvate. Bisk erect, oupular. >Stame)is 



sgj-l ™y 4 long and 4 short, inserted on the margin of the disk. Ovart/ 

 ovul 9?^'^®^' surrounded by the disk ; style short, stigma obtuse 4-lobed • 

 les 2 in each cell. Brupe ovoid, containing a 1-3-ceIled and -seeded 

 snppf -^«^~^ stones.— DiSTEiB. India, Arabia, Tropical and Southern Africa : 

 species 6-10. (See Berg, in Bot. Zed. 1862. 153, 161.) 



branr?" ^"^'*'' Hook, ex Stocks 'in Hook. Kew Journ. Bot. i. 259, t. 8 ; > 

 sttonf-b 0*^"^'"''''% ending in a sharp spine, leaves 1-3-foliolate, leaflets ■ 

 OnpJ't •^^'^ shining obovate nearly sessile toothed at the end. Boiss. Fl. 

 ,. ««'*f- 11. 3 : Brandis For. Flor. 64. B. Roxburghii, Stocks in Bomb. Trans. 



Wi<.li-- i ^"-^ '■ ^«^2- *^ 6^*'«. Ji'^fnh. Fl. Suppl. \<d{not 

 'mix, Am. in Ann. Nat. Hist, iil 86 ; Wight III. i. 185. 



of Am.). (?) B. 



GiJ* ^^'^^^^^^9 Rajpootana, Bednore, Brandis; Khandeish and Ber.vr, Dalz. & 



^%L\\i^^' Bellary, WigJit — DiSTiiin. Beluchistan, Arabia? 

 '**cicle • ^ ^ ^^' Branches slightly ascending. Flowers nearly sessile, a few in eacli 

 toens >r^i^^^^"*'».^lie male with small abortive ovary, the female with short barren sta- 

 ftd rpp ^ J forming a cyh'ndrical cup, glandular-hairy. Petals 4-5, ligulate, brownish 



*^^^9mXl *^ ^^^ ^^P' ^ ^^"^^^ ^^ '""^ ^^ ^^'^'^- ^^^^*^ 8-10-toothed. /Stamens 8-10. 

 ^rtrly 4_^ 1 ^^^'^ ^"^^^^^^i' Drupe red, ovate-acuminate, containing 2 2-celled stones, 

 (£. ^r I?..T^^-~I follow the suggestion of Brandis in referring to the Bellary plant 

 ^iout fl "^ 'i^der B, Muhul, from which it appears to be indistinguishable, though 

 geuoug ■ ^^.'^' Brandis remarks, " This species will probably be found to be indi- 



p. 65V *^^,^"d rocky hills throughout Kajnutaua and a great part of the Dekkan" (Ix. 

 - ^'^^"gul, • • 



leavef'-! ?;?*'>"rffliil, Arn. in Ann. Nat. Hist, iil 86 ; branches spinj', ^ 

 small nr. *\"o^ate, terminal leaflet very finely serrulate, lateral leaflets very 

 Ca? fij&^ /«. i. 1 85. Amyris Commiphora, Jtioxb. FL Ind. ii. 244 ; Walt. 

 ^^0498. ? A. Agallocha, Eoxb. Hort. Bmg. 28. 



VerJ^^'^-P^^'^'^^; Silhet and Assam, ^oa-6?<w7«, flC-c. 

 ■eaves^f *"■ *° ^- ^luhvl, and possibly identical, but only imperfectly known ; the 

 ^^'«lKcli'F^^'^j ^^ ^^ '^'■ger and of a thinner texture. I have only seen specimens of 

 atUchej ,vf "'^ bottler's from the Mission Garden of Madras, to which Bottler has 



^^^ ^^ma Amyris serratifoUa, noh. 



264 ?■ Pj^bescens, Stocks in Bomb. Trans. 1847 ; Hook. Kew Joum. Bot; 

 ^'mpj' ^f'^nclies not spiny, leaves petioled, 3-5-foliolate, leaflets entire. 

 '%ek' '^' '^^ 2 ' Brandis For. Flcrr. 64. 



A stnAl??'* '^^ S'^'-OH. -S'^ocA-s.— DisTRiB. Beluchistan. 



_ '"iiau tree v,;n, _ i , i .i r- 



*^^ ^he bl \^ ^^^^ pubescent unanued branches. 

 *^^t«^un !' ^^^^ ^^*^ downy when young, later) 

 «^e«'v"-®^» Petiolulate. Flowers sessile. Si 



Leaves on slender petioles longer 



^t>lade, soft and downy when young, lateral leaflets nearly orbicular, terminal 

 -^uneate, petiolulate. Flowers sessile. Stamens eg^ual. Drupe red, with 2 





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fcHoIatl Jf^'^y** ^^w. 2« ^«?i. Nat. Hist. iii. 86; l>ranches spiny, leaves 3- 

 VOL T P^"oled glabrous entire, calyx 3-4-cleft, petals 3-4, stamens 6-8, 



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