a BURSERACEH. 
| BOSWELLIA SERRATA, Roxb. 
Fig. —Colebr. in Asiat. Res. IX,, 379, t. 5. Salai tree, pe 
(Eng.). 
*  Hab.—w. Himalaya, Central India. The gum-resin. ; 
Vernacular.—(The gum-resin) Salai, Gigal (Hind.), Gugar — 
_(Guz.). In Southern India it bears the same names as olibanam. 
History, Uses, &c.—The history of this drug is in- 
volved in much obscurity, owing to it shaving been confounded 
by both native and European writers with true Frankincense 
_and Bdellium. Sanskrit writers may possibly sometimes allude 
‘evidently the same ag the Arabic Kundar, it is much more 
likely that they allude to the true Frankincense imported from 
Africa and Arabia, and which we know to have been 
introduced into India at a very remote period. 
. "word Salai has been derived. The exudation from the tree $4 ae 
- called Sallaki-drava or Sihla, and Guggulu. — Ainslie notices. 
_ B. glabra as producing Giggul, and B. serrata the olibanum — 
of commerce, but calls the latter Salai, and quotes Dr. F. ze 
ther neighbouring territories; the gam-resin *: 1s 
yo incising the bark. Dr. ithe: when 
a ippee in Behar to the height of 1,360 feet, | 
