184 ILLUSTRATIONS OF INDIAN BOTANY, 
remote from the acrimony of those, the produce of Anacardiaceae, mark these tribes as not very 
correctly associated in the same natural order, and go far to confirm the propriety of their 
separation not merely as tribes of one larger order, but as distinct orders. 
embraces several species of this tribe, 
juice of both species of Boswellia is ¢ nd is us 
pitch. That of Canarium commune has properties similar to Co. 
seed, on the other hand, afford by expression a bland edible oil, 
is known in Malabar under the name of the black dammer 
Vateria or white dammer. This tree is rather common in the alpi 
eye and the light, but when adhering to the tree has a bright shini 
flowers of this species I have not seen, the fruit is a very hard, 
each en . . 
Of the species of the genus Protium, of which the Peninsular flora embraces 4 or 
5, [have not heard that any are in this country turned toa useful purpose. ‘The three first 
i i i i icted, are all jungle trees, with soft very fragile 
uding resinous juices—the fourth, Balsamodendron 
ng black appearance. The 
3-celled, oval nut, tapering at 
: y unknown here, as the plant producing 
the balm so highly esteemed and cherished, is circum- 
hat introduce both 
the Myrrh and Balsam of Gilead plants since both a ny aemnt tq introns 
and both afford produce of gre 
consider a new speci 
hy, not bony, perecarp filled A 
: n erect, not pendulous seed, and 
. eye) of the fruit, not laterally and eile 
; © Dony perecarp and the enlarged torus. x 
ay prove a Pegia I have Subjoined the character of that genus as give 
transactions I have not an opportl 
Go 
eo was lor BTR get, ve not seen. A leaf of the species 
— Rame of Filix Zeylani oe nk sae ed by Burman ( Thesaur, Seviin: table 45) under t 
by any author until Dr. Arnott an up eae er so far as [ am aware been taken | ; 
fajlum and since in Ceylon, - Prodromus. I first found it at Coul 
