28. BUBSERACEJE. [2. Gabuga 



A Flowering before the new leaves. 



L. lobalate or coarsely crenate. Disc fleshy annular. 



Fr. capsular . . . 1. Bogwellia, 



L. shallowly crenate. Disc thin lining the calyx tube. 



Ft. drupaceoas 2. Garuga. 



B. Flowering on the new shoots. 



L. sub-entire or serrate. Disc small annular. Fr. drupa- 

 ceous. . 3. Bursera. 



1. Boswellia, Roxb. 



1. B. serrata, Roxb, Saiga, Sali, K.\ Saiga, 8.; Salai, Sali, 

 H., Kharw. 



A pretty tree with green, grey or reddish bark 

 peeling off in thin flakes, large exsfcipulate impari-pinnate 

 leaves 12-18" long with numerous opposite sessile coarsely 

 crenate-serrate leaflets and numerous racemes of smallish white 

 flowers at the tips of the branches, usually appearing when 

 the tree is bare. 



Very common on dry hills, where it commonly attains 5 ft. girth. Barer 

 in the S. P. 

 Fl. Jany. -March. Ft. May-June. Deciduous Jany.-May or June. 



Branches drooping, L. approximated at their ends. Lflts. l|-3'' by 

 W opp. or sub-opp. 9-16 prs. lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate glaucous 

 beneath and pubescent on the nerves above sometimes Bub-lobed. Racemes 

 4-8' pubescent, sometimes with short branches, crowded but not really 

 terminal, the apex of the branch growing through them, so that they are 

 below the new leaves in fruit. Calyx cupular 5-6-lobed villous. Petals 5-6, 

 i'' oblong-ovate with thickened base. St. 10. inserted on the outside of the 

 scarlet fleshy annular papillose disc. Filaments short snbnlate. Anthers 

 dorsi-flxed sagittate introrse. Ovary free 3-celled with a 3-ridged style 

 and capitate stigma. Fruit 3-gonous | 7 long with 3 valves and 3 winged 

 hard pyrenes. 



The wood is used for charcoal. The tree yields the Indian Olibanum, 

 a golden-yellow gum-resin (luban, loban, 8.) very fragrant and trans- 

 parent. The leaves hung up in a cattle shed are said to keep away flies. 

 Can be grown from large cuttings. 



3. Gil ruga, Roxb. 



1. G. pinnataj Roxb. Armu, K.\ Kandwer, S. ; Kekur 

 Kenkar, Kharw ; i£arur, Bhumij, Kosromba, Mai Pah. 



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