BURSERACEE, — 
white scales, which became yellow with nitric or hydrochloric 
acid, and violet red with sulphuric acid. Fliickiger calls a 
— (See Year-Book Pharm., 1986, p- bb 
BURSERACEK. 
BOSWELLIA. 
~ Several : species inhabiting Eastern Africa, near Cape Guseis 
fui, Socotra and the Southern Coast of Arabia. j 
 Fig.—Bentl. and Trim., t. 58. Frankincense trees (Teng. 
 Arbres a npans (Fr.). 
Hab. A abies Socotra, Africa. 
-banum. 
Species, Birdwood on ‘ the Genus Boswellia, with descriptions ! 
‘and figures of three new species [Linn. Trans. XXvil. (1871), 
‘111,) and Balfour (Trans. Roy. Soc. Edin, Vol. xxx. 
may be’ consulted; also the Pharmacographia ; : but ‘the 
n the Pharmacographia. It is the Obos, APdverds and a 
of the Greeks and the Tus or Thus of the Romans.* 
= Theoph Hist. Plot oa 5. ix. 1, 2, & Di 
31, 82: Luer. 3. 328: Fi m Hly’ moot d 
i i cctitlans in doiaia 
