200 XXXT. BURSEIt/^CE.T. 



iiuparipiiinate ; leaflets sessile or shortly petioluled, small, creuate or 

 serrate, rarely entire. Flowers polygamous, small, fascicled, shortly 

 pedicelled. Calyx ciipular, urceolate or tubular, 4 (rarely 5-6)-toothed 

 or -lobed, persistent. Petals 4 (rarely 5-G), inserted on the margin of a 

 more or less concave disk, oblong, erect, spreading or reflexed at the 

 apex, valvate or indiiplicato-valvate. Stamens 8-10, inserted on the 

 margin of the disk, the alternate usually longer, rarely equal; filaments 

 dilated at the base ; anthers ovate. Disk cupular. Ovary ovoid, sessile, 

 3- rarely 2-4-celled ; ovules 2 in each cell; style short ; stigma obtusely 

 3-4-lobed. Drupe ovoid or subglobose ; epicarp 2-6-valved ; pyrenes 

 crustaceous or woody, connate into a compound pyrene, one cell seed- 

 bearing, the rest barren. — Distrtb. Africa ; species 35. 



Calyx-lobes equalling the tube 1. C. Mukul. 



C:ilyx-lobes shorter than the tube. 



Unarmed; stamens equal 2. C. Stock siana. 



Armed ; stamens alternately long and short 3. C. Berryi. 



1, Commiphora Mukul, Engl, in DC. Monngr. Phan. v. 4 (1883) 

 p. 12. Shrubby, 4-6 feet high; young parts glandular-pubescent; 

 branches knotty and crooked, divaricate, usually ending in a sharp spine. 

 Leaves 1-3-foliolate ; leaflets snbsessile (the terminal up to | by 5 in.), 

 rhomboid-ovate, serrate-toothed in the upper pare (the tapering base 

 entire), smooth, and shining, the lateral leaflets when present less than 

 half the size of the terminal ones. Flowers in fascicles of 2-3 ; pedicels 

 very short. Calyx campanulate, glandular-hairy ; lobes 4-5, triangular, 

 as long as the tube. Petals brownish-red, broadly linear, nearly thrice 

 the length of the calyx, reflexed at the apex. Stamens 8-10, alternately 

 long and short, half the length of the petals. Disk 8-10-lobed, the 

 alternate sinuses deeper and in these are inserted the shorter stamens. 

 Ovary oblong-ovoid, attenuated into the style. Drupes red when ripe, 

 i-^ in. in diam., ovoid, acute ; epicarp 4-valved ; pyrenes ovate, acute, 

 readily splitting into 2. Bahimodendron MuJad, Hook, ex Stocks, in 

 Hook. Kew Journ. Bot. v. 1 (1849) p. 259, t. 8 ; Fl. B. I. v. 1, p. 529 ; 

 B(jiss. Fl. Orient, v. 2, p. 3 ; Talb. Trees, Bomb. p. 37 ; Woodr. in 

 Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. U (1897) p. 268; Watt, Diet. Econ. Prod. v. 1, 

 p. 366. Balsamo<Jendron Iloxhurqhli, Stocks, in Journ. As. Soc. Bomb. 

 V. 2 (1848) p. 391 (not of Arnott) ; Dalz. & Gibs. Suppl. p. 19 ; Aitch. 

 Pb. & Sind PI. p. 30.— Flowers : Mar.-Apr. Vern. Gugnl. 



Dry regions of Sind and Khandesh. Deccan : Peit, 30 miles north of Poona, 

 Woodrow I, Dalzell <f- Gibson ; between Salher and Abowna (Khandesh), Dalzell ^ 

 Gihxon. Sind: hills in Sind, Sfock.s, 440\ 



The gura-resin known as Gugal or Indian Bdellinm is obtained from the tree. It 

 is extensively used in native medicine. See Watt, Diet. Econ. Prod. 1. c. — 

 DiSTKiB. India (Rajputana) ; Beluciiistan, Arabia. 



2. Commiphora Stocksiana, Engl, in DC. Monngr. v. 4 (1883) 

 p. 17. An unarmed shrub, much resembling C. Mulcul in general habit; 

 branches not tipped with a spine ; young shoots aiul leaves rusty- 

 pubescent. Leaves 2-3 pairs with an odd one; leaflets entire, the 

 terminal obovatc, petioluled, Ihe lateral subsessile, usually oblong-obovate. 

 Flowers fascicled, 1-3 together, subsessile. Calyx urceolate; teeth 

 short. Petals red or white, obovate, acute, spreading at the apex, not 

 reflexed. Stamens equal in height. Disk equally toothed. Drupes 

 red, subglobose, shortly pointed, marked by 4 conspicuous white sutures, 



