ILLUSTRATIONS OF 
SEMECARPUS. 
amii, (R. W. Icon. Pl. Ind, O aie oer ett 
Sanless asuciiva acute, coriaceou = brous above, 
se paip beneath, petiol short, furnish with4 subulate 
odies 
ith rusty colore pie ovule solitary, pendulous 
from the base of aes styles 
ghauts.” In his prem tan 
able and devoted votary, at a time too when diligently 
loyed in the preparation and publication of a cata- 
logue of the plants of the Bombay Presidency. 
enera Semecarpus and Holigarna ee nearly 
n their generic characters, in the e 
BUCHANANIA. 
B. lanceolata, (R. W. Icon. Pl. Ind. Ort. 237.) Leaves 
lanceolate, seit or acuminate, quite ae oe, 
th f the 
congested tow e summits o shoots: 
panicles pu eat erect, terminal an aecillagy from 
he summits of the branches, contracted: flowers small, 
numerous, capitate on the ends of the short lateral divi- 
sions of the panicle. 
Malabar near Quilon 
Ihave not seen the fruit. The leaves are so like 
those of —. indica that the same terms serve to 
characteriz 
PEGIA. 
Gen. Cuan. Calyx persistent. See roundish. Disk 
ded 1, conical, 
ded.— Metener. 
; Haagen: is, | presume, nee rom poe 
broke’ inet n the Linnean transactions. 
o not ssdhees the means of comultita: bat i it 
too leapovtees to admit of my referring with certainty 
the oe plant to it, the more so as the habit is not 
give 
P. ? Colebroakiana; (R. W. Ic. Pl. celeseia cts Ar- 
leaves, many-flower Fruit suipetior, globose, point. 
ed with the persistent fleshy style and capitate stigma: 
peer containing between its lamine numerous small 
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cells, the base bound by a ring. wr one, 
dons thick, fleshy, radicle inferior. 
Hab.—Shevagerry Hills. 
The leaves sometimes resemble those of some species 
of “ey, arbece ‘hey are usually broader above and 
some of them 
erect, cotyle- 
pata in these ipecba wie seem to indicate that it is 5- 
lobed, ae several of the fruit rotate the fleshy ring 
which originally bound the*ovary. 
BALSAMODENDRON. 
The following remarks and characters I copy verbatim 
from Dr. Arnott’s paper on this genus, published in the 
Annals of Natural History, vol. iii. Pp. 8D- 86. 
‘Mh th 
1. p. 176, r, Wight and I united this, as a pecs Sy to 
Protium, me it sill appears to = doubtful if the two 
be sep: arated by sufficiently important characters: the 
habit is, however, very diferent. In cons equence of 
the addition of several new species, the character given 
by Dr. Wight and me, will sapitte to be slightly alter- 
ed, as follo 
alyx date: bages tubuloso-campanulatus : ian ae 
formis in fundo calycis ovarium cingens, nter 
singula pet verrucula elevata instrctus: prtecer 
to: drupa ovata: nux obtusa an 
rom this it is obvious that the shige of the calyx 
and nut is not sufficient to distinguish Ba dron 
principal character consists in the position 
of the torus or disk, 
All the East Indian species which I have seen have - 
the 
the calyx se a Ico ating as in an ia 
one, (Heudelotia) and Commiphora of Jacquein, while it 
is Seal d sl ense, and perhaps in the 
Arabia: but, as these last are not suffi- 
ciently known, I cannot avail myself of that probable 
difference of structure to subdivide the genus into sec- 
The following isa synopsis of all the species 
i Berryi, Arn. spinescens, san ene petio- 
latis glabris, foliolis 3 cuneato-obovati termi- 
nali lateralibus duplo majo i 
bus, fructa rai Gileadense. 
Prod. Exel. wun) ) Amyris Gileadensis, Roxb. Fl. Ind. 
=. l. 
aie eek , Arm. spinese: foliis 
_ B. I petiolatis 
paie, foliolis 3, eniveall ovali pearly lateralibus 
minutis, pedicellis uvifloris brevibus.—Amyris Commi- 
phora. 
3. B. Wightit, Arn. Spinescens, foliis sessilibus gla- 
bris, foliolis 3, ‘subsequ ee cnneat watis acute 
dentalo-serratis, floribus sessilibus fasciculatis, fractu 
subiter Se ato. 
* 2. al 
if Gileadense, Kunth; inerme, foliis petiolatis 
glabris, foliolis 3, integerrimis obovato-oblongis, pedi- 
cellis brevibus unifloris, calyce latiuscule cam nulato 
B, Gileadense et B, opobalsamum.—. Kn, 
