ORD. XXV. LOMENTACEA. 
MYROXYLON PERUIFERUM. | SWEET-SMELLING BALSAM 
; | TREE. 
SYNONYMA. Cabureiba. Piso. Bras. 57. 119. Toluifera Balsamum. 
Linn. Sp. P1549. Hoitziloxite, Hernandez Nova Plant. §c.; Mexican Hist. 
fol. 51.f. Myroxylon peruiferum. Linn. f. Suppl. p. 233 ; Willd. Sp. Pl. v. 
2. 546 ; Stokes, v.2. p.471; Lambert. Illust. of the, Genus Cinchona, p. 92. 
Myrospermum peruiferum. De Cand. Prodr. v.2. p. 95. 
Class X. Decandria. Ord. I. Monogynia. 
Nat. Ord. Lomentacex, Linn. Leguminose, Juss. - 
Gen. Char. Calyx, bell-shaped, five-toothed. Petals, five ; the upper one 
larger than the others. Germen, longer than the corolla. Legume with 
one seed only at the extremity. Leaves, corriaceous, persistent, and, as 
well as the branches, glabrous. Legumes with the wing thick on one 
side, veinless on the other. Style deciduous. De Cand. (Character of 
M. Peruiferum in Mutis, Humboldt, and Decandolle.) ; 
Spec. Char. Leaflets pointed, emarginate. 
THIS is a very handsome ¢ree ; the trunk rises to a considerable height, 
is straight, smooth, and covered with a compact, coarse, heavy, bark, exter- 
nally of a grey colour, internally of a pale yellow, and abounding with a 
very fragrant resin, which also pervades every part of the tree ; the branches 
extend almost horizontally, and are covered, like the trunk, with coarse 
bark ; the eaves are alternate and abruptly pinnate: the leaflets nearly op- 
