238 Bit rseraceCS. [ Canarmm. 



In Indian specimens (from Coimbatore) the fls. are quite sessile in little 

 clusters of 2-5, and the hits, (always 3) thick and rigid, the terminal one 

 much the largest. 



Closely allied to the plants affording Myrrh [B. Myrr/ia, Nees), and 

 Balm of Gilead, {B. Opobalsa)imm, Kunth) ; both fully described and 

 figured in ' Medicinal Plants,' tt. 59, 60. 



Bosivellia glabra^ Roxb. There are leafless flowering twigs of this 

 under C. P. 3878 collected by Glenie 'between Nalande and DambuUa. 

 March, 1865.' This should be looked for, but is scarcely likely to be 

 indigenous to Ceylon. 



2. CANARIUM, L. 



Large trees ; 1. imparipinnate, with or without stip ; fl. 

 unisexual, in panicles ; cal. 3- or 5-lobed, valvate ; disk lining 

 cal.-tube ; pet. 3 or 5, valvate or imbricate; stam. 6 or 10; 

 ov. 2- or 3-celled, with 2 ovules in each cell ; fruit a drupe, 

 epicarp fleshy or leathery, stone hard, 1-3-celled, surrounded 

 or not by watery pulp ; seed solitary or 2, with large, much- 

 folded and often crumpled cotyledons. — Sp. 30; 18 in 

 Fl. B. Ind. 



Fl. 5-merous, ov. 2-celled {Scutincmthc) . . . i. C. brunneu.m. 

 Fl. 3-merous, ov. 3-celled 2. C. zeylanicum. 



I. C. brunneum, Bedd. Fl. Sylv. t. 127 (1868 .?). Maha- 

 bulumora, S. [Plate XXIII.] 



Scittinanthe bri/ti/iea, Thw. in Kew Journ. Bot. viii. 266 ; Enum. 79. 

 Garuga bru/uiea, March. Rech. Burser. 18. Engl, in Mon. Phan. iv. 105. 

 C. P. 1 149. 



Fl. B. Ind. i. 531. Kew Journ. Bot. viii. t. 8, f. B. Bedd. Fl. Sylv. 

 t. 127. 



A large tree, 50-60 ft., with a straight, erect, buttressed 

 trunk, bark rough, not furrowed, blackish, young shoots 

 densely pubescent; 1. imparipinnate, rachis 8-12 in., cylin- 

 drical, pubescent, Iflts. 3-5 pair and a terminal one, on 

 pubescent, ^- in., stalks, 4-6 in., oval or oblong-oval, acute or 

 obtuse and often unequal at base, acuminate, acute, entire, 

 glabrous, veins prominent beneath, no stip.; fl. on very short 

 ped., in fulvous -tomcntose, axillary panicles 4-6 in. long, 

 bracts small, densely tomentose ; cal. cup-shaped, very thick 

 and fleshy, 5 -cleft ; pet. 5, scarcely longer than cal. and 

 inserted on its tube, very thick ; stam. 10, inserted on cal.- 

 tube, fil. very short, connate below, rudimentary in fem. fl. ; 

 ov. conical-ovoid, hairy, 2-celled, style very short, stigma 

 capitate (ov. glabrous with longer style in male fl.) ; fr. i ^,-1 ;,' in., 

 ovoid, supported on the somewhat enlarged cal., narrowed at 

 base, pointed, finely tomentose, brownish - orange, epicarp 



