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TOLUIFERA BALSAMUM. 
BALSAM OF TOLU TREE. 
Balfamum tolutanum. Pharm. Lond. & Edinb. 
STNONTMA. Balfamum Tolutanum, foliis ceratia* fimilil 
IDUS. 
Bauh. Pin. p. 401. Balfamum de Toiu. Monard. Clus. Exot. 
3°4 
Park. The at. p. 1570 
Bauh. Hijl. vol. i. p. 296, 
Rail. Hifl. p. 1758. 
Clafs Decandria. Ord. Monogynia. Lin. Gen. Plant. 524. 
EJf. Gen. Ch* Cal. 5-dentatus, campanulatus. Pctala 5, infimo 
maximo* obcordato. 
y 
Styl 
us nullus. 
THIS 
larg 
grows to a confiderable height ; it fends off numerous 
branches, and is covered with rough thick greyiih bark 
leaves are elliptical 
or 
pointed, alternate, of a 
green colour, and (land upon Ihort ftrong footftalks : the flowers 
the 
ght 
and produced in lateral racemi : the calyx is bell-fhaped 
divided at the brim into five teeth, which are nearly equal, but 
is projected to a greater diftance than the others: the petals 
are 
inferted into the recept 
and 
fi 
number, of which four 
t: the fifth is much 
are equal, linear, and a little longer than the calyx ; the 
the largeft, inverfely heart-fhaped, and its unguis is of the length of 
the calyx : the ten filaments are very fhort, and furnifhed with 
antherae : the germen is oblong 
pointed : the fruit is a round berry 
there 
is no 
ftyl 
the ftigma is 
Through the fi 
of Sir Jofeph Banks, we have been enabled 
prefent our readers with the 
d figure of th 
s tree, v 
has hitherto been little known, and but imperfedly defcribed. a 
grows in Spanifh America, in the Province of Tolu, behind Garth 
hich 
It 
We regret that the flowers were not fufHciently ad 
interior parts of inflorefcence. A piece of the bark, which tailed ftrongly 
Baiiam 
the fpecimen in Sir Jofeph's Herbarium 
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s 
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