236 Bui'SCracecr. iBalsamodendrtun. 



Stam. 8 (or 10) ; fl. in dicliotomous cymes. . i. Balsamodendrum. 

 Stam. 6 or 10 ; fl. in panicles . . . .2. Canarium. 

 Stam. 5 3. FiLlciUM. 



All 5 species are confined to the low country ; Balsamodendrum to 

 the dry region, Canarium brtinneum to tlie moist. 



I. BAZiSABIODENDRUM, Kunth. (Includes Proiiwn, 

 W. & A., non Burm.) 



Small trees ; 1. compound ; fl. small, polygamous (male 

 and bisexual), in dichotomous cymes; cal. 4- (or 5-) toothed; 

 pet. 4 (or 5), valvate or slightly imbricate ; stam. 8 (or 10), 

 alternate ones shorter or suppressed ; disk fleshy, annular, 

 lobed ; ov. 2-celled, with 2 suspended ovules in each cell, 

 style o, stigma 4-lobed ; fruit a drupe, epicarp 2-valved, stone 

 surrounded by a 4-lobed fleshy mesocarp, i -seeded; seed with 

 cotyledons much folded and crumpled, no endosperm. — Sp. 

 about 12 ; 6 in Fl. B. Ind. 



Lflts. entire, attenuate-caudate i. B. C.'MJDATUM. 



Lflts. crenate-serrate, obtuse . . . . . 2. B. Berrvi. 



Attention is called to the lobcd arillus-like mesocarp in this genus, 

 which seems to have been overlooked by monographers. 



Protium cannot be maintained as a genus distinct from Bahavio- 

 dendrum ; both are sunk in Commiphora by Engler. 



I. B. caudatum, March, in Adansonia, vii. 266 (1867). Kili- 

 vai, T. 



Protium caudatum, W. and A., Thw. Enum. 78. Com7niphora cau- 

 data, Engl, in Mon. Phan. iv. 28. C. P. 1261. 



Fl. B. Ind. i. 530 {Protium). Bedd. Fl. Sylv. t. 125. 



A small deciduous tree, with a thick trunk and smooth, 

 pinkish bark which flakes off in large pieces, much branched, 

 young parts quite glabrous ; 1. imparipinnate, articulated, 

 deciduous, rachis 3-7 in., glabrous, lflts. in 2 or 3 (rarely 4) 

 pair and an odd one, 1^-3 in., shortly stalked, oval or ovate, 

 unequal at base, attenuate-caudate, with very long, slender 

 tail, entire, glabrous ; fl. numerous, small, in numerous, long- 

 stalked, crowded, dichotomous cymes 3-8 in. long, from the 

 ends of branches below the new leaves and appearing before 

 them, ped. slender, divaricate, bracts minute ; cal. campanu- 

 late, glabrous, lobes shallow, acute ; j^et. erect, oblong or 

 linear, with a recurved point ; stam. 8, alternate ones shorter, 

 longer in male than in bisexual fl. ; ov. conical, longer than 

 stam.; fruit appearing with the young 1., pendulous, broadly 



