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the alternate ones smaller. Wight III. i. 185 ; Bedd. Fl. Syl t. 126; 

 Brandis For. Flor. 65. Protium gileadense, W.& A. Frodr. 177 jexdud. 

 svn(m. : Grah. Cat. Bomb. FL 43. inot B. eileadense BC). Amyns gUea- 



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densis, Boxb, FL Ind. ii. 246. 



Western Peninsula; in dry forests East of the Nilghiris and Sivaglierry 

 tivated for hedging throughout S. India). 



Branches patent, the lateral ones ending in very abrupt spines. Leaves alternate or 

 fascicled ; leaflets obovate, sessile, the terminal one twice as large as the lateral ones, ^ 

 Flowers nearly sessile, solitary or fascicled. Disk small, 6-8-lobed. Dru^e oblong, 

 apiculate. ,-, ■'._ -'^-. 



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Small balsamiferous spiny trees. Leaves alternate, 3-foliolate ^^.PP^^J" 

 pinnate, with entire or toothed leaflets. Flowers small, on long Pj*^ p^.^^ 

 much branched cymes. Cali/x small, cupular, 4-6-fid or -toothed, rm^ 

 4-6, linear-oblong, valvate. Disk clothing the bottom of ^ the calyx-cup, 

 with free margin. Stamens 8-12, inserted in the margin of the oi^k, 

 tmequal. Ovary 2-4-celled, sessile; style short, stigma 3-6-lobed; 

 3 in each cell. Drupe fleshy, globose, containing 1-4 pyrenes. beeds oblong, 

 radicle superior,— Disteib. India, Java, subtropical Africa. Species 6-^ 



1. P. caudatum, W.&A. Prodr. 176; leaves 3-7-foliolate, leaflets 

 glabrous more or less abruptly acuminate, cyme branched many t^ 

 dichotomously greatly exceeding the leaves. Bedd. FL Sylv. t. 125; ^y^ 



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Western Peniksula; Ceylon, at Jaffoa. " ..ye 



Leaves long-petioled with short lateral leaflets, the terminal one with Y*^"/ ^^^rlvery 

 ovate, entire. Cymes bracteate at the branches, the bracteoles beneath the ^*^^^^^^ 

 minute. Flowers polygamous, small. CaZyx-lobes deltoid, acute, as long ^^ r^ y^ 

 Petals about twice as long as calyx-lobes. Drupe about the size of a pea, neau^ h 

 bular, subtended by the persistent calyx. . , , VnVin* 



Var. Roxhurghiana, W. & A. I.e. (species); leaflets not acuminate, ^^"tenamL ^ 

 short abrupt point. Amyris acuminata. Boxh, Fl Ind. ii. 246; 'Wall. CfW. o^-' " 

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2. P. pubescens, W. & A. Prodr. 176 ; leaflets pubescent obtusely acu- 

 minate, cyme (panicle?) rather dense branched many times om^ 

 dichotomously. Wall. Cat. 8-^97. -i: 1^-^ 



Western Peninsula, Wight . xi^eupper 



Leaflets about 7, ovate or obovate, entire, very shortly petiolulate. ^^^^J^V^^ c&' 



part of the inflorescence exceeding flowers. Flowers rather shortly P^^]^^ p*' w^fMjii. 



segments lanceolate, twice as long as broad. Drupe rather larger than m r. cam , 



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Balsamiferous trees. leaves alternate, imparipinnate, or rarely 1 

 Fanides short, brauclied. Flmvers hermaphrodite or polygamous, ^v^^j^ 



sm;xll, 4-6 partite or -toothed, imbricate. Fetids 4-6, short, parent at le^^Oj^, 

 reflexed, usually valvate. Disk annular, creuate. -i'^^^'*^"*" _°' h<rl<ibosc 



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3-5 



bglobosc, 



equal, inserted at the base of the disk. Ovarif free, ovoid or suDg^ ^^^^ 

 3-5-celled: stylevery short stigma S^.'i-lnbed : ovules 2 in each ceil- s 



mostly 



globose or ovoid, with 3-5 pyrenes.— Distrib. About 40 species 

 natives of Tropical America. - "''-> ' 



:1. B. serrata, Cohbr. in Tram. Linn. Soc. xv. 361, t. 4; leant; jy 

 rowed below acuminate, drupe globose 1-3-celled, the peaicex 5 



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