Tete. TEREBINTHACEX. 177 
terminal on very short branchlets, dichotomous, or 1-flowered and either 
solitary or aggregated.—— Balsamodendron, Kunth. à 
543. (4) P. Gileadense (W. & A.:) ultimate branches short, patent, spines- 
cent, with small very short. abortive branchlets, bearing at their extremities 
the leaves and flowers: leaves palmately 3-foliolate ; leaflets roundish ob- 
ovate, obtuse, obscurely crenulate, glabrous: peduncles 1-flowered, shorter 
than the petioles— Wight! cat. n. 543.—Balsamodendron Gileadense, DC. 
prod. 2. p. 76.—Amyris Gileadensis, Linn.; Roxb. fl. Ind. 2. p. 246; Spr. 
syst. 2. p. 217 ; Fahl, symb. 1. t. 11.—A. spinosa, herb. Madr. ! 
€ have no means of ascertaining whether the other species referred to 
Balsamodendron by Kunth and De Candolle be distinet, or be only varieties. 
XV. ICICA. Aubl. 
Calyx small, obtusely 5-toothed. Petals 5, inserted under the disk, re- 
curved, sessile: sestivation valvular. Stamens 10, inserted with the petals, 
and shorter than them. Torus cup-shaped, 10-crenated at the margin. : Ova- 
ry free, sessile, 5-celled: ovules 2in each cell, collateral, pendulous from the 
upper part of the axis. Style very short. Stigma5-angled. Drupe globose, 
obtuse, 1-3-celled, the dissepiments (when present) thick and fleshy ; sarco- 
carp coriaceous, splitting into valves: nuts (seeds ?) bony, very hard, solita- 
ty in each cell, covered with an adhering arilliform fibrous pulp, marked ex- 
ternally with a depression or hilum, swollen internally opposite to the hilum 
9r point of attachment of the placenta. Cotyledons foliaceous, thin, intri- 
cately folded and chrysaloid: radicle superior, cylindrical, thick.—Trees, 
Producing resin or balsam. Leaves unequally pinnated, not dotted. Stipules 
Done, Racemes or panicles axillary. Flowers small, white, or yellowish 
green, 
i i in view, but 
there eere Aeon ind the. toad peso bl ied except the 
ht addition by him for the reception of such as have the flowers divided in a qua- 
Ty manner. 
544. (1) I. Indica (W. & A.:) youn shoots, petioles, pedicels and calyx 
el) leaflets AME Seti, sbiehigchunceotatss with a sudden short 
obtuse acumination, more or less serrulated, from almost glabrous to densely 
pubescent : panicles axillary, solitary, lax, narrow (racemiform), much shorter 
the leaves: stamens 10: fruit-bearing peduncle thickened.— Wight! cat. 
n. 985.—Bursera serrata, Wall. ; Colebr. in Linn. soc. trans. 15. p. 362. t. 4; 
G. Don in Mill. dict. 2. p. 84. —Schinus Benghalensis, herb. Ham. !—8. sa- 
heria, herb. Ham. !—S, Niara, herb. Ham. ! | 
niu 
ORDER LV.—MORINGEJE. R. Brown. 
Calyx 5-partite: wstivation slightly imbricated. Petals 5, nearly 
equal, the upper one ascending. Stamens perigynous : filaments 10, 
flat, and hairy at the base: anthers 8 or 10, peltate, simple, 1-celled, 
with a thick convex connectivum. ‘Torus fleshy, lining the tube of the 
calyx, Ovarium free, stipitate, l-celled : style filiform, terminal, not 
obliquely inserted : stigma simple. - Placentæ three, parietal. Fruit a 
Pod-like capsule, 1-celled, 3-valved, loculicide. Seeds numerous, half- 
ied in the fungous substance of the valves. Albumen none. Ra- 
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