530 xxxvi. BURSE RACE JE. (Alfred W. Bennett.) [Balsamodendron. 



the alternate ones smaller. Wight III. i. 185 ; Bedd. Fl. Si/L t. 126 ; 

 fli-'indis For. Flor. 65. Protium gileaclense, W.\(- A. Proclr. 177, < 

 synon. ; Gra/i. Cat. Bomb. PL 43, (not B. gileadense DC.}. Amyris gilea- 

 densis, Roxb. FL Ind. ii. 246. 



WESTERN PENINSULA ; in dry forests East of the Nilghiris and Sivagherry Hills (cul- 

 tivated for hedging throughout S. India). 



JJrancJtcs patent, tlie lateral ones ending in very abrupt spines. Lc<iv< s alternate or 

 fascicled; leaflets obovate, sessile, the terminal one twice as large as the lateral ones. 

 Floiri'i-s nearly sessile, solitary or fascicled. Disk small, 6-8-lobed. Drupe oblong, 

 apiculate. 



5. PROTXUBX, W. & A. 



Small balsamiferous spiny trees. Leaves alternate, 3-foliolate or iinpari- 

 pinnate, with entire or toothed leaflets. Flower* small, on long pedicels in 

 much branched cymes. Cal : i.>' small, cupular, 4-6-fid or -toothed. 

 4-G, linear-oblong, valvate. J)i*k clothing the bottom of the calyx-cup, 

 with free margin. Stamens 8-12, inserted in the margin of the disk, 

 unequal. Ovaru 2-4-celled, sessile ; style short, stigma 3-6-lobed ; ovules 

 3 hi each cell. Drnjx- hVshy, globose, containing 1-4 pyri'iie-. !ong ; 



radicle superior. DISTUII:. India, Java, subtropical Africa. Species 3-4. 



1. P. caudatum, W.AA. Prodr. 176; leaves 3-7-foliolate, leaflets 

 glabrous more or less .abruptly acuminate, cyme branched many times 

 (iichutomonsly greatly exceeding the leaves. J>IJ. FL />'///-y. t. l^o; Wall. 

 Cat. 8494, - 



WKSTKUX PKXINSULA ; CEYLON, at Jaffoa. 



Lcui-ca long-petioled \\itli short lateral leaflets, the terminal one with a Ion:; petiolule, 

 ovate, entire. CI/HH-* bractcate at the brandies, the bracteoles KMieath th<' !lo\\. 

 minute. Flowers polygamous, small. C'/^--lohes deltoid, acute, i 

 l^-tals about twice as long as calyx-lobes. Drupe about the size of a pr;i, nearly glo- 

 bular, subtended by the persistent calyx. 



VAK. JiOj-ltirf/hiana, W. & A. I.e. (species); leaflets not acuminate, but ending in a 

 short abrupt point. Amyris acuniinata, lloxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 246; Wall < 'at - 

 Pulney Mts., Wight. 



2. P. pubescens, W. & A. Prodr. 176 ; leaflets pubescent obtusely acu- 

 minate, cyme (panicle T) rather dense branched inftuy times but not 

 dichotomously. W.alL Cnt. 8497. 



WESTEUX PKXIXSULA, Wit/lit. 



Leaflets about 7, ovate or obovate, entire, very shortly petiolulate. Bracts in the upper 

 part of the inflorescence exceeding flowers. Floircr* rather shortly pe.liedled. 

 segments lanceolate, twice as long as broad. Drupe rather larger than in J'. can 



6. BURSERA, Linn. 



Balsamiferous trees. Leaves alternate, iniparipinnate, or rarely 1-foliolate. 



hrod 



short, branched. Flowers hermaphrodite or polygamous. C<i'i/x 

 small, 4-6 -partite or -toothed, imbricate. Petals 4-6, short, patent at length 

 refiexed, usually valvate. Disk annular, crenate. titaiiMH* 8-12, nearly 

 equal, inserted at the base of the disk. Ovary free, ovoid or subglobose, 

 3-5-celled ; style very short, stigma 3-5-lobed ; ovules 2 in each cell. JJt',</>e 

 globose or ovoid, with 3-5 pyrenes. DISTKIB. About 40 species, mostly 

 natives of Tropical America. 



1. B. serrata, ' Trans. Linn. Soc. xv. 361, t. 4; leaflets nar- 



rowed below acuminate, drupe globose 1-3-celled, the pedicel greatly 



