Gojuphza.] Bnrscraceo'. 237 



ovoid, blunt, slightly compressed, ^ in., supported on small 

 persistent cal, epicarp fleshy, valves wholly deciduous, each 

 readily again splitting down centre, stone lenticular, flatter 

 and thicker on one side, hard, thin, i -celled (by abortion of 

 the other), surrounded by aril-like, pulpy, 4-lobed, scarlet 

 mesocarp; seed suspended, testa membranous. 



Rocky hills in the dry region ; rather rare. Kalpitiya ; Trincomalie; 

 Bintenne ; foot of Ritigala ; Kekirawa and other places in N.C. Prov.; 

 Dambulla ; Nilgala, Uva. A bush which is apparently this species (but 

 which has the 1. often slightly serrate) is used everywhere as a live fence 

 throughout the Jaffna Peninsula. It attains a considerable size, but 

 is always, I think, planted, and fruits freely. Fl. July ; pinkish or red. 



Also in Southern India. 



The whole plant is strongly resinous and has an agreeable scent. 



I have not been able to get a Sinhalese name for this with certainty, 

 but I have heard it called 'Siviya' and 'Ensalu,' and a specimen of wood 

 labelled ' Masbedde ' (from N.C. Prov.) seems to be the same. 



2. .B. Berryi,* Am. in Ann. Naf. Hist. iii. 86 (1839). Mul- 

 kilivai, T. 



Trim, in Journ. Bot. xxiii. 143. 



Fl. B. Ind. i. 529. Bedd. Fl. Sylv. t. 126. 



A small, much-branched tree or bush, bark smooth, silvery- 

 purplish, lateral branchlets divaricate, often spinous ; 1. com- 

 pound, often crowded, rachis glabrous, Iflts. in i or 2 pair and 

 an odd one, sessile, obovate-oval, tapering to base, obtuse, 

 usually crenulate-serrate, glabrous ; fl. small, shortly stalked, 

 in small pedunculate, dichotomous cymes, |-i| in. long, 

 several together from end of short lateral branchlets ; cal, 

 glabrous or pubescent, teeth triangular, acute ; pet. erect, 

 long-clawed, twice as long as cal., linear-spathulate, concave, 

 strongly recurved at end ; stam. (in male fl.) 8 or 4, about 

 equalling pet; fruit not seen. 



Dry and desert region ; rare. Said to be wild in the islands in the 

 Gulf of Mannar, especially on Delft I. (Neduntivu), whence it is brought 

 to the mainland. Much used as a hedge-plant, but not wild, in the 

 Jaffna Peninsula and down the west coast to Negombo ; also at 

 Vavuniya, N. Prov. ; often mixed with B. caiidatinn. Fl. March ; pale 

 pinkish-yellow. 



Also in dry parts of S. India. 



I have not met with the fruit ; the fl. are very Hable to attacks of 

 insects resulting in malformation and hypertrophy. 



At Colombo, where this is sometimes grown for a fence, the spines 

 almost disappear, the leaflets become much larger, and the inflorescence 

 more developed, the whole plant thus putting on a very different look, 



* Commemorates Dr. Berry of Madras, who first sent it to the Calcutta 

 Botanic Garden. 



