526 TEREBINTACE (Sond.) [ Cathastrun. 
VIII. BALSAMODENDRON, Kunth. 
Flowers polygamous. Calyx 4-toothed, persistent. Petals 4, linear- 
oblong, inserted under the margin of the torus, induplicately valvate in 
estivation. Stamens 8, shorter than the corolla, glabrous, inserted 
under the margin of the torus. Torus cup-shaped, fleshy, deeply 8- F 
crenated. Ovary sessile, 2-celled ; ovules 2 in each cell, collateral, sus- , 
pended from the middle of the axis. Style very short. Stigma obtuse, : 
4-lobed. Drupe globose or ovate, acute, marked with 4 sutures; sar- 
cocarp splitting into 2 valves; nut thick and very hard, long, 2-celled 
(one of the cells by abortion often obliterated), at length divisible into 
two nuts. Seeds solitary in each perfect cell, suborbicular, concayve- 
convex, without albumen; testa membranaceous. Cotyledons suborbi- 
cular, fleshy, corrugate and plicate ; radicle superior, cylindrical, thick. ‘ 
Kunth. Annal. se: nat. vi. 348. Endl. Gen. n. 5930. Protium, sec. 2. D 
Wight and Arn. Prod. p. 176.  Heudelotia, A. Rich. Flor. Seneg. 150. -E 
Amyridis spec. L. 
Balsamiferous trees. Leaves unequally pinnated ; leaflets 3-5, sessile, without 
dots. Peduncles terminal, on very short branchlets, 1-flowered, solitary or aggre- 
gated.—The name signifies Balsam-tree : Myrrh is the product of a North African 
species, B. myrrha. 
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1. B. Capense (Sond.); glabrous ; ultimate branches short, patent, 
somewhat spinescent, with small, very short branchlets; leaves pal- 
mately 3-foliolate; leaflets obcordate or sub-orbicular, crenulate, gla- 
brous, terminal cuneate, equal-sided, laterals smaller, oblique at the 
base; peduncles 1-flowered, shorter than the leaves; calyx deeply 4- 
toothed, lobes ovate, acute ; drupe sub-globose, mucronate, somewhat 
compressed. 
Has, Between Natvoet and Gariep, 1000-1500 feet, Drege, n. 6809, ex parte. Sept 
(Herb. Sond.) 
Branches erect, terete, striate, purplish ; branchlets 1-3 inches long or shorter, 
bearing the leaves, and at their top the flowers. Leaves on a short (1-14 line long) 
_ petiole. Leaflets somewhat coriaceous, with a middle nerve and a few lateral veins, 
the terminal 4-5 lines long, 2-34 lines wide, cuneate or narrowed in a short stalk ; 
the lateral ones half as long, patent, quite sessile. Peduncle 1-1} line, calyx 1 line 
Petals and stamens unknown. Drupe half an inch long, mucronate with the 
very short style, fleshy, bivalved. Putamen by abortion 1-celled, 1-seeded, rarely 
2-celled, one of the cells very small, containing a rudimentary seed. Seed attached 
to the middie of the dissepiment. Testa very thin, brownish. Cotyledons ex- 
actly as in Elaphrivm.—Very similar to B. gileadense, Kunth. (Nees v. Esenb. in 
Duesseld. offic. Pflanz. tab. 611 ; Amyris gileadensis, L. Vahl. Symb. I. t. 11) ; and 
differs only by the more orbicular, crenulate, shorter-stalked leaves, and the deeply- 
toothed or 4-fid calyx. ; a 
APPENDIX. 
TX.! CATHASTRUM, Turez. — 
to me to range much better with Celustrinew, of which it has 
_ from which it differs merely in having the ovary re- 
WEL] : 
