Sait OF i iia Rieti ia 
SP Pa oar 
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. ORD: XXXVI Dumose: . 603 
AMYRIS GILEADENSIS. BALSAM of GILEAD AMYRIS., 
Balsamum Gileadense. Pharm. Edinb. Conf.  Bruce’s Travels 
to discover the Source of the Nile. | Appendix. p. 16.  Belon. 
Observations de plusieures singularitéz trouvées en Grece-Arabie, 
&c: Lib. 2. cap. 39. p. 110. Alpinus, in Lib. de plantis Aigypti, 
-»p- 48. Jig. p. 60. Forskal Flor. Aigyptiaco-Arab. p. 79. Bauh. 
Pin. p. 400... Gerard, Emac. p. 1528. Park. Theat. p. 1528, 
Class Octandria, Ord. Monogynia. Lin. Gen. Plant. 473. 
Ess. Gen. Ch. Cal. 4-dentatus. Petata 4. sgh Stigma tetra- 
gonum, Bacea drupacea. | 
Sp. Ch: A. foliig! terimatis integerrimis, pedunculis unifloris:lateral- 
Stig. ttt slates = 
ACCORDING to Mr. Bruce the Balessan or Balm-tree grows to 
the height of fourteen feet: its branches are numerous, spreading, 
crooked: the wood is white, soft; and covered with a.smooth ash- 
coloured bark: the leaves are small, few, commonly consisting of 
one pair!of pinnae; with an-odd one at the top: the pinnz are 
sessile, inversely ovate, entire; yeined, and of a bright green 
colour: the flowers are scattered upon the branches, and are of 
a white colour: the calyx is permanent, and-divided at the brim 
into four small pointed teeth: the petals are four, oblong, con- 
cave; patent, white; the filaments are eight, tapering, erect, and 
terminated by oblong anthere: the germen is egg-shaped, and 
placed above the insertion of the corolla: the style is thick, of the 
length of the filaments, and terminated by a quadrangular stigma : 
the fruit is of the drupaceous kind, roundish, opens. by four 
valves, and containing a smooth nut. 
