24 DIHCI FLORA. 



been compared with specimens in the Kew Herbarium and 

 has been identified there as Bursaa tfuvifolki, £ngl.] 



106- Canarium commune, L- "Arbol de la Brea." 



n. F5ranchlet, without flowers or fruit. 

 Buitenzorg, Java, 1866 ; S. Binnendyk. 



This specimen is accompanied by a tracing taken from a 

 diawing of Canarium commune, by Camelli, in the British 

 Museum ; also by a letter from A. AV. Bennett, F.L.S., 

 bearing date 7 Mar., 1874, stating: — 



" I have very little doubt of the enclose<l being a Canarium, and in 

 all probability C. commune, which Ls said eitlier by Miquel or Dlume to 

 extend to tlie Pliilippines. The form of the fruit and the mode of 

 attachment of the lealiets exactly correspond." 



See 'Pharmacographia,' 1st ed., p. 131, and the Hanbury 

 Materia Medica Collection. 



106. Icica heterophylla, D. C. 



a. With fruit. No. 21, " Breo branco." 



A very abundant tree at Santarem, Para, yielding plenti- 

 fully a white fragrant resin which is used medicinally ; 

 H. W. Bates, Nov., 1853. Resin received afterwards- 



b. Without flowers or fruit. 



"The tree wa."; a tolerably large one ; diameter of .stem about 15 inches. 

 The renin form.s under the bark quite .spontaneously, i.e., without 

 wounds, and seems to exude through the bark. Tlie aroma when fresh 

 was very powerful. 1 use the resin as a substitute for camphor in my 

 insect boxes." — H. W. Bates. 



A series of fine specimens of bark, with resin, all from the 

 same tree, are in the Hanbury Materia Medica 

 collection. Specimen b. is labelled in a note in D. H.'s 

 writing, "Icica Aracouchini, Aublet, Hist, des Plantes 

 de la Guiane Fran^aise, Tom. I., 344, PI., 133." 



107- Icica species. "Balsamo." 



a. Leafy twig. 



The wood is dark red, heavy and close-grained, having 

 a balsamic odour; Hugo Finck, Cordoba, Mexico, 

 1866. 



MELIACE^. 



108. Melia Azedarach, L. " Drek or Bakain." 



a. (1.) Leaves only. (2.) Twig with flowers. 



(1) India; (2) Golfe de Joiian, near Cannes; cultivated 

 1866. 



