BALSAM TREES OF SCINDE. 259 
Virey, Hist. Nat. des Médicamens, p. 291, first suggested that Bdel- 
lium came from an Amyris, the Niotoutt of Adanson, Voy. 162, Heude- 
lotia Africana, of Flora Senegambie 1. 150, Balsamodendron Africa- 
num, Arnott in Annals Nat. Hist. 3.87. It is probable, indeed, that 
African Bdellium is yielded by this shrub, which is closely allied to the’ 
Googul tree of Sylhet and Assam, which Dr. Roxburgh had growing in 
the Calcutta Garden, and described in the Flora Indica 2. 244, under 
the name of Amyris Commiphora, with the Sanscrit synonym of Googula ; 
Jacq. Hort. Schoenbr. 2., p. 66 et 249.), the supposed identity of which 
had suggested the specific name in the Flora Indica. The alteration, 
however, had not been entered in the MS. of the Flora Indica, when 
death deprived India of its most methodical and accurate Botanist. 
Royle grew this plant in the Saharunpore Garden, and was informed 
that it produced the Googul gum-resin, but recommends (Him. Botany, 
and more recently in his work on Materia Medica, Lond. 1847) that 
the subject should be followed up by those who have the opportunity 
of examining the flowers and collecting the gum. 
The iree now under consideration is abundant on rocky ground in 
Scinde, about Kurrachee, Garrah, Tattah, Jerrok, &c., in short wherever 
the limestone formation extends. It is therefore, most probably, very 
common in Beloochistan and up the Persian Gulf, and is one of the 
plants connecting the Syrian and Indian Floras. 
1. Balsamodendron Mukul, (Hook.) ; spinescens ; partibus novellis eum 
calyce pube capitata decidua sparsis, foliis ve? simplicibus obovatis an- 
ticd serrato-dentatis vel trifoliatis foliolo medio seepissimé rhomboideo- 
ovali cum foliolis lateralibus conformibus dimidio minoribus undulaté 
obliquo inciso-serrato, calyce campanulato, petalis ligulatis apice re- 
flexis, staminibus oppositipetalis disci inaequidentati profundioribus 
recessubus sitis, carpellis (quotquot sint) perfectis, fruetüs ovoideo- 
acuminati ad basin calyce fisso emarcido stipati valvulis epicarpialibus 
integris mesocarpiique cyathiformis margine 4-lobati lobis pyrena- 
rum verticem acuminatam attingentibus. (Tab. VIIL) 
Balsamodendron Roxburghii, Stocks in Bombay Trans. 1847. (exl.syn.) 
Descr. A small tree four to six feet high, or more generally a stunted 
2 L2? 
