362 Mr. COLEBROOKE on Boswellia 
The arilliform pulp has a pleasant subacid taste, and, like the 
skin, a weak scent of anise, of which the young leaves likewise 
partake. 
Trunk arboreous, straight. Bark gray, scabrous, studded with 
oblong ochraceous specks; bursting when old. Branches 
scattered, spreading. Young shoots, petioles, pedicels and 
calyces, downy. | 
Leaves alternate, decussate, unevenly pinnate. Leaflets 3—5 
. pairs, with an odd one; broad-lanceolate, obtusely acu- 
minate, serrulate ; the largest 5 to 6 inches long, and 2 to 3 
broad. 
Petioles round, thicker at the base, pubescent. 
Stipules none. 
Panicles axillary, shorter than the leaves, open. . 
Flowers very small, yellowish-green. 
Bractes at the base of pedicels, solitary, ovate. 
Perianth inferior, flattish, five-toothed, downy. Toothlets ob- 
tuse. ` | 
Petals five, ovate to lanceolate, spreading, exteriorly downy, 
longer than the stamina. 
Nectary a crenulate, narrow fleshy ring, girding the base of the 
germ. : 
Filaments ten, subulate, alternately shorter, inserted below the 
nectarial ring. Anthers ovate, two-celled. | 
Germ ovate, downy, obsoletely five-angled, five-celled, with one 
to two ovules in each cell, attached to the upper part of the 
axis. Style very short. Stigma five-cornered. 
Berry globular, obtuse, sitting on the enlarged pedicel: purple 
with white dots: size of a damson : 1—3-celled. 
Partition thick, dilated in the middle into a short, fleshy pla- 
centa. 
Pulp 
