264 BALSAM TREES OF SCINDE. 
Tue Bayer Batsam Tree. (Tab. IX.) 
2. Balsamodendron pubescens ; inerme; partibus novellis pube detergi- 
ili subfurfurosis, foliis bi-tri-jugis cum impari foliolis integris medio 
obovato lateralibus sepissim? oblongo-obovatis, calyce urceolato-cam- 
panulato, petalis obovato-acutis apice patentibus, staminibus æqui- 
longis disci sequidentati sinubus sitis, ovarii bicarpellaris loculo altero 
penitüs abortivo, fructus globoso-acuti ad basin calyce integro emar- 
cido stipati valvulis à basi semibifidis mesocarpiique cyathiformis 
margine 4-dentati dentibus pyrenarum verticem obtusam haud attin- 
gentibus. (Tab. IX.) 
B. pubescens, Stocks in Bombay Trans., 1847. 
ESCR. A small tree, or stunted shrub, much resembling the Googul 
tree, but the sub-terminal branches, though abrupt, are not spiniform. 
Bark peeling off in flakes. Leaves ternate, fascicled at the end of the 
stunted buds, but on the young soft shoots alternate, with an additional 
distant pair of leaflets ; long-petioled, soft and downy (as are the young 
shoots) with short furfuraceous pubescence. Leaflets obovate, entire, 
often retuse ; the terminal one stalked, the lateral ones subsessile, often 
somewhat rounded. Flowers sessile in bundles at the end of the 
stunted buds, unisexual and dicecious as in the Googul. Calyx-tube 
shallow, contracted at the mouth. Petals red or white, with zestivation 
as in the Googul, spreading but not reflexed at the apex in anthesis. 
Stamens equal in height. Disk equally toothed. Ovary, as in the 
Googul. Drupe red, globose with a short point, marked by four con- 
spicuous white sutures, the alternate ones (corresponding to the mid-rib 
of the carpellary leaves) not reaching to the apex of the fruit. Valves 
two, each cleft half-way up to the secondary or false suture. Pulp 
orange-coloured, four-toothed upwards, not reaching to the apex of the 
nut which is left naked. Nut ovate, obtuse; one of the halves into 
which it splits is a mere flat plate or scale, the other is a perfect cell 
grooved on the commissural plane. Sometimes the number of carpel- 
lary leaves is increased. Thus out of a parcel of 120 there were four, 
and out of a parcel of 200 there were seven, which had six sutures and 
a pulp six-toothed towards the top. In these cases the additional car- 
pel was représented by a second flat plate, or more rarely there were 
two perfect cells and one abortive. One seed in each perfect carpel. 
Albumen none; embryo straight.  Radicle superior; cotyledons crum- 
pled and plaited. 
