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longa, 1°25 mm ah su coriacea, nisi margine puberulo glabra. 
Petala 5, leviter oblique elliptica vel oblongo-elliptica, apice obtusa 
et in nflexa, 5 mm. longa, 3 mm. lata, venosa, margine minute glandu- 
loso-puberula. Stamina 10; filamenta basi disci inserta, alterna 
brevioria, 2—2°5 mm. longa, basin versus sensim incrassata, glabra ; 
antherae oblongae, 2 mm. longae. Discus annularis, crassus, 
undulate lobatus, minute puberulus. Ovarium eeteaas ovoideum, 
leviter trilobatum, 1:25 mm. diametro, glabrum; styli 3, connati, 
15 mm. longi, glabri. Fructus clavatus, basi attenuatus, 2 cm. 
— superne 0°8 cm. diametro. Semina non visa. 
PICAL AFR Northern Nigeria: Kontagora, Dalziel 
(coll. 1906), 279 (lower ring specimen) ; _Katagum District, ee 
(coll. 1908), ee Ureang specimen).—* Ararabi ” or « Hararabi ” 
of the Hausa tr 
Boswellia soe Hutchinson, sp. nov. ; affinis B. papyriferae, 
Hoshat. et B. Dalzieliit, Hutchinson, ab illa foliolis serratis longe 
comisates glabris, ab hac inflorescentiis paniculatis dense pilosis 
iffert. 
Arbor ; ramuli crassi, cortice pallide fusco deciduo glabro. Folia 
imparipinnata, 6-9-juga; rhachis 30-40 cm. longa, subteres, sul- 
cata, parcissime pilosa, 1-5-3 mm. diametro ; foliola plerumque sub- 
alterna vel superioria Sea infima lanceolata, minora, 1 intermedia 
et superiora elongato- vel lineari-lanceolata, apice sensim longe 
acuminata, basi cuneata vel subrotundata, 5-10 cm. longa, 1-2 cm. 
ata, membranacea, serrata, serris circiter 4 mm. distantibus, nervis 
lateralibus utrinque circiter 12 patulis vix prominulis. Paniculae 
terminales, confertae, 20-30 em. longae, dense Seed 3; rami 
laterales racemosi, usque ad 14 em. longi ; pedicelli 5-8 m. longi, 
patuli, demum subreflexi, canaliculati, pilosi ; bnistine: ae 
dense pilosae. Flores eis B. Dailzielii simillimi ) 
TropicaL Arrica. Northern Nigeria: Yola Province ; 
cone planted in towns, Dalziel ( ie 1909), 167.—Hausa name, 
; Fufulde, “ Andakehi.” : 
[A species of Boswellia (B. chariensis, Guillaumin) has recently 
been described as new, from Ad pape collected by. Chevalier in ~ 
Central Chari and Bagirmi; it seems, however, hardly dis- 
tinguishable from B. papy yrifera, Hochst —J. H.] 
_ Besides its application as a scent, the resin of these trees is used ; 
e gum along with the bark of the Verbenaceous tree “ Denya ” 
(Retilde, . Galbiji ”) Vitex Cienkowshii,in compounding Mallam’s ink | 
and the tree is also apparently regarded as one of the many anti- 
dotes to arrow poison. Thus a decoction of the root, along with 
that of Daniella thurifera, is used in other provinces, but in_ 
Adamawa I have known the Fulani i in emergency simply to chew 
