Bursera.] xxxvi. BURSERACE^E. (Alfred W. Bennett.) 531 



thickened and elongated. Brand. For. Flor. 61. Icica indica, W. & A. 

 Prodr. 177 ; Wall. Cat. 8492. Limonia pentagyna, Roxb. Fl. 2nd. ii. 382, 

 ex Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. Seng. 1870, ii. 70. 



EASTERN BENGAL ; Garrow hills and Kajmahal hills, ASSAM ; and CHITTAGONO. The 

 CJKCARS, Roxburgh. 



Leaflets about 7 or more, opposite, petiolulate, ovate, pubescent or nearly glabrous, 

 serrulate or quite entire. Panicles axillary, lax, much branched, shorter than the leaves, 

 bracteate. Flowers very small, hermaphrodite, pubescent externally. Calyx obtusely 

 5-toothed. Petals 5. recurved. /Stamens 10, shorter than the petals. 



7. CANARIUM, Linn. 



Balsamiferous trees. Leaves alternate, imparipinnate, stipulate or exsti- 

 pulate. Flowers bracteate, in terminal -or axillary panicles, hermaphrodite 

 or polygamous. Calyx cupuliform or campanulate, 3-lobed or -fid (5-lobed 

 in Scutinanthe), valvate. Petals 3-5> imbricate below or valvate, usually 

 exceeding calyx. Stamens 6 (10 in Scutinanthe), distinct, inserted on 

 margin or outside of disk, or filaments confluent below and distinct from 

 disk. Ovary 2-3-celled ; ovules 2 in each cell ; style various,' or stigma 

 subsessile, capitate. Drupe usually ellipsoidal, more or less distinctly tri- 

 gonous, with a. 1-3-celled, 1-3-seeded stone ; cotyledons often partite, con- 

 tortuplicate. DISTKIB. Tropical Asia and Malayan Archipelago. Species 

 probably about 30. 



As may be inferred from the sectional characters it is not improbable that two or 

 three generic types are included here under Canarium, but the final settlement 

 of these cannot be undertaken without the examination of a full series of Archipelago 

 forms. 



SECT. I. Flowers 5-merous (SCUTINANTHE, Thw.). 



1. C. brunneum, Bedd. Fl. Sylv. t. 127 ; extremities shortly recl- 

 tomentose, leaves exstipulate, leaflets 5-11 oblong or ovate-oblong acu- 

 minate entire glabrescent or midrib beneath puberulous, panicles axillary 

 branching from base red-tomentose, pedicels not exceeding 5-fid calyx, 

 petals scarcely exceeding calyx, stamens 10 confluent in a disk aclnate 

 to calyx-tube (in $ fl.), ovary hirsute 2- celled, fruit drupaceous ellip- 

 soidal shortly pointed. Scutiuanthe brunnea, Thwaites in Kew Journ. Bot. 

 viii. 266, t. 8 B ; Enum. 79. 



CEYLON ; in the central Province, alt. 2-3000 ft., Thwaites. 



'Tree of 50-60 ft. Leaves 10-20 in.; leaflets 4-8 by 2-2$ in,; petiolule J-$ in. 

 Panicles much shorter than leaves; bracts ovate-lanceolate. Flowers polygamous. 

 Calyx cupuliform, lobes 5 ovate-deltoid. Petals tomentose outside, subvalvate. Drupe 

 1-1^ in. long, apiculate and thinly red-tomentose when dry, 1 -celled (in our specimen), 

 with thin bony stone. (Cotyledons eniire foliaceous plicate. Thwaites.) Nearly 

 allied to this species, but with drupes If in. long, are specimens from Malacca (Main- 

 gay], without flowers. 



SECT. II. Flowers normally 3-merous. 



* Stamens confluent in short disk around ovary or its rudiment. Buds 

 sJieat/ied by deciduous bracts. Stone thick bony. Canarium proper. 



t Leasts entire. 



2. C. conir.iunc, Linn.; extremities tawny puberulous or glabrate, 



>c rotundate auriclecl often early deciduous, leaflets 7-9 ovate 

 .ong elliptical acuminate glabrous, lateral nerves about 10-15 pairs 

 paler and subprominent beneath, panicles terminal puberulo.us with 



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