246 OCTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Amyris, 
ed juice, but unfortunately for my conjecture, it is soon 
carried off by evaporation, leaving little or nothing be- 
hind, Ihave at various times of the year wounded the 
plantin different places, and placed various contrivances 
to collect the juice, but all 1 could ever procure, wasa 
very minute portion of a gummy matter, which certain- 
ly resembled myrrh, both in smell and appearance, but 
had no tendency to be tenacious, or elastic, hence I con- 
clude there must be a mistake in its being the elastic gum 
tree of Madagascar, as mentioned by Jacquin. 
3. A. gileadensis. Willd. 2. 334. 
Shrubby, the branches and branchlets spinous. Leaves 
short-petioled, ternate ; leaflets from oval to elliptic, ser- 
rulate, smooth. ti 
A native of Arabia. It has not yet blossomed in the — 
Botanic garden at Calcutta, though a pretty large plant 
has been there five years. 
4, A. acuminata. R. 
' <Arboreous. Leaves ternate, and quinate, rarely of ¢ se- 
ven leaflets, pinnate ; leaflets petioled, from ovate to oyal, 
entire, acuminate, death: Peduncles diverging, three- 
flowered, or trichotomous, and many-flowered, Stamens — 
shorter than the pistillum. 
Introduced into the Botanic garden at Calcutta from 
the Moluccas, in 1798. In 1808 the young trees had ac- 
quired a short trunk, of eighteen inches in circumference, 
and not very straight, covered with very smooth arg 
ash-coloured, fleshy bark. 
_ Branches stiff but brittle and spreading i in every direc- 
tions ; bark thereof like that of the trunk. In Bengal they 
blossom in May, but have not yet produced ripe fruit, : : : 
Leaves alternate, ternate, and quinate-pinnate, rarely cy 
seven, and nine still more so; in Bengal deciduous ee 
November and December, and appearing with the flow- 
