134. 



BTJRSERACE^. 



Africa, near Cape Gardafui and of the southern coast of Arabia. -^ Not- 

 withstandinij the recent elaborate and valuable researches of Birdwood, 



blihanum 



in the following enumeration : — - 

 1. Boswellia Carterii Birdw. 



This includes the three following 



formSj which may be varieties of a single species, or may belong to 

 two or more species, — a point impossible to settle until more perfect 



materials shall have been obtained. 



>f 



Afi 



.324, Mohr meddu or Mohr madoivoi the natives ; nieddw, according to 

 Piayfair and Hildebrandt, means black. The leaflets are crenate, 

 iindiilate, and pubescent on both sides. 



This tree is found in the Somali Country, growing a little inland in 

 the valleys and on the lower part of. the hills, never on the range close 

 to the sea. It yields the olibanum called Luhdn Bedowi or Luhdn 

 Sheheri (Piayfair). 



_ Hildebrandt describes the Mohr meddu as a tree 12 to 15 feet high, 

 with a few branches, indigenous to the limestone range of Ahl or 

 Serrut, in the northern part of the Somali Country, where it occurs in 

 elevations of from 3000 to 5000 feet. To this tree belongs the figure 

 58 m Bentley and Trimen's Medicinal Plants (Part 20, 1877). 



b. Boswellia No. 6, Oliver, oj). cit, Birdwood, Linn. Trans, xxvil, 

 tab. 29.— Sent by Piayfair among the specimens of the preceding, ana 

 with the same indications and native name. This form, the " Mohr 

 meddu " of the Somalis, has obscurely serrulate or almost entire leaflets, 

 velvety and paler below, glabrous above. The figure (which is not 

 given m the reprint) is very much the same as that of the following. 



c. Maglirayt d'sheehaz of the Maharas, Birdwood, I. c. tab. 30, 

 r(7)rintcd m Cooke's report, plate I ; Carter, Journ. of Bombay 

 of li. Asiat. Soc. ii.. tab. 2.^ • Fi ^nn-^.n T'l.i^Vi^oT. T.ohry^horrl derl 



h 



•4 



kognosie des P/?a^0eiire{cLs," llof Vl— Ra^s^' Fartak^ S.E. coast of 

 Arabia, growing in the detritus of limestone cliflTs and close to the 



Playf; 



■ the village of Merbat (Carter, 1844-1846). 



figure refers to a specimen propagated in the Victoria 



iy,from cuttino-s spnf flmr^ frnm fVin Somali country t>; 



iiint. 



■yf. 



where it flowered in 1868. The diff-erences between this species 

 Oartern are not very obvious. 



and B. 



t!o>SnJrf^ »«i"^ -Boswellia, with descrip- 

 Uonsand firjnres of three new spec-m.~Linn. 



Keport on the gums, resins, . . • 

 of the Indian ifuscnm," I^nd 1874 -• 

 The ongina plates are much snperior and 

 more complete than the reprints -The 

 materials on whiol. Tw xt- , l'*^'7,''- , -"^"^ 

 vationa ha^^l 1 , • •. -^irdwood's ol)ser- 



^nich we also have had access T.rP l 

 m 1862.-2. Growing Plants at Bombay 



and Aden, raised from cuttings sent ^y 

 Piayfair. —3. A specimen obtaineci uy 

 J. Carter in 1846: near EasFartak<)nU. 



south-east coast of Arabia, and stm b ^^^ 

 ing in Victoria Gardens, ^''"^f^'uy 

 figured by Carter in Journ. oj^ ^^^ 

 Branch of i?. Atsiatic Soc. u. {^^*^> 

 tab. 23. . , f .i,g anti- 



2 In the \Ll3a,,^Toi>Spo^ ^"'^Iri.r meddu 

 quity, the hill region (where W^"^ .,}j the 

 is growing) used to be contrasted ^^^^^^^ 



coast region, the Sahil. ^ee '^J^te 3), 

 (qnoted further on, page 13b, loo'' 



page 90. 



