Garuga.} xxxvi. BURSERACE^:. (Alfred W. Bennett.) 529 



A tree 30-40 ft. Leaves 1 ft. or more, pubescent when young, afterwards glabrous. 

 Panicle very large, compound, pubescent. <7aZy.r-teeth ovate, pubescent. Petals linear, 

 inserted between tbe calyx- teeth. Disk completely clothing the tube of calyx. Stamens 

 aboiit as long as the petals. Ovary ovoid, narrowing into the hairy style ; stigma 

 capitate, 5-lobed. Drupe black, " size of a gooseberry." 



4. BAIiSABIODENDRON, Kuiitli. 



Balsamiferous often spiny trees or shrubs. Leaves alternate, 1-5-foliolate 

 or imparipinnate ; leaflets sessile, oblique, crenate or serrate. Flowers 

 small, polygamous, fasciculate, on short petioles or sessile. Calyx tubular, 

 3-4-toothed, persistent. Petals. 3-4, valvate. Disk erect, cupular. Stamens 

 6-8, usually 4 long and 4 short, inserted on the margin of the disk. Ovary 

 sessile, 4-celled, surrounded by the disk ; style short, stigma obtuse 4-lobed ; 

 ovules 2 in each cell. Drupe ovoid, containing a 1-3-celled and -seeded 

 stone or 1-3 stones. DISTRIB. India, Arabia, Tropical and Southern Africa ; 

 species 6-10. (See Berg, in Bot. Zeit. 1862. 153, 161.) 



1. B. Mukul, Hook, ex Stocks 'in Hook. Kew Journ. Bot. i. 259, t. 8 ; 

 brandies generally ending in a sharp spine, leaves 1-3-foliolate, leaflets 

 smooth and shining obovate nearly sessile toothed at the end. Boiss. Fl. 

 Orient, ii. 3 ; Brandis For. Flor. 64. B. Roxburghii, Stocks in Bomb. Trans. 

 1847 (excl syn.} ; Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. tiuppl. 19 (not of Am.). (?) B. 

 Wightii, Am. in Ann. Nat. Hist. iii. 86 ; Wight III. i. 185. 



SIXDH, Stocks; RAJPOOTANA, Bednore, Brandis ; KHANDEISH and BERAR, Dalz. & 

 Gibs. ; ? MYSORE, Bellary, Wight. DISTRIB. Beluchistan, Arabia? 



A small tree 4-6 ft. Branches slightly ascending. Flowers nearly sessile, a few in each 

 fascicle, unisexual, the male with small abortive ovary, the female with short barren sta- 

 mens. Calyx forming a cylindrical cup, glandular-hairy. Petals 4-5, ligulate, brownish 

 red, recurved at the tip, 3 times as long as calyx. Disk 8-10-toothed. Stamens 8-10. 

 Stigma obscurely 2-lobed. Drupe red, ovate-acuminate, containing 2 2-celled stones, 

 rarely^t-valved. I follow the suggestion of Brandis in referring to the Bellary plant 

 (B. Wightii) under B. Mukul, from which it appears to be indistinguishable, though 

 without flowers. Brandis remarks, " This species will probably be found to be indi- 

 genous on arid rocky hills throughout Eajputaua and a great part of the Dekkan" (I.e. 

 p. 65). Gugul. 



2. B. Roxburgh!!, Arn. in Ann. Nat. Hist. iii. 86; branches spiny, 

 leaves 3-foliolate, terminal leaflet very finely serrulate, lateral leaflets very 

 small. Wight III. i. 185. Amyris Commiphora, Roxb. FL Ind. ii. 244; Wall. 

 Cat. 8498. 1 A. Agallocha, Roxb. Hort. Beng. 28. 



EASTERN BENGAL ; Silhet and Assam, Roxburgh, &c. 



Very similar to B. Mukul, and possibly identical, but only imperfectly known ; the 

 leaves appear to be larger and of a thinner texture. I have only seen specimens of 

 Wallich's and Bottler's from the Mission Garden of Madras, to which Kottler has 

 attached the name Amyris serratifolia, nob. 



3. B. pubescens, Stocks in Bomb. Trans. 1847 ; Hook. Kew Journ. Bot.; 

 264, t. 9 ; branches not spiny, leaves petioled, 3-5-foliolate, leaflets entire. 

 Boiss. Fl. Orient, ii. 2 ; Brandis For. Flor. 64. 



Rocky parts of SINDH, Stocks. DISTRIB. Beluchistan. 



A small tree with pubescent unarmed branches. Leaves on slender petioles longer 

 than the blade, soft and downy when young, lateral leaflets nearly orbicular, terminal 

 obovate-cimeate, petioluhite. 'Flowers sessile. Stamens equal. Drupe red, with 2 

 stones. 



4. B. Berry!, Arn. in Ann. Nat. Hist. iii. 86; branches spiny, leaves 3- 

 foliolate petioled glabrous entire, calyx 3-4-cleft, petals 3-4, stamens 6-8, 



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