532 XKXVI. BURSERACE.E. (Alfred W. Bennett.) [Canarium. 



spreading successively shorter lateral branches, buds enclosed in ovate or 

 rotundate tomentose bracts, petals 3 imbricate below, stamens (in <$ fl.) 

 inserted around hairy rudiment of ovary idrupe ellipsoidal subtrigonoua 

 with a bony 1-3-celled stone, Blame), Ko-n'uj. Ann. Bot. i 360, t, 7, f. -2 ; 

 Roxb. Fl 2nd. iii. 137; />'///// Mv*. Bot. i. 214; Bljd. 1161 ; DC. frodr. 

 ii. 79; W. & A. Pro Jr. 175; Miy. Fl, Ind. Bot. vol. i. pt. -2, 043; Wall. 

 Cat. 8493. Sapindus travancorensis, Wall. Cat. 8047. 



PENANG, Philip, Jack. 



Leaves of flowering branches f-14 ft* more or less; upper leaflets 4-6 by l-2i in. ; 

 petiolules 4-1 in. flowers variable in size, 9 to over in. in length. Cali/.r campa- 

 nulate, broadly 3-lobed. Petals tomentose above. Ovary glabrous, incrassate above. 

 Cotyledons tripartite, contorted (Blume}. A Malayan and Archipelago plant culti- 

 vated in India. 



3. C. zeylanicum, Blume Mu*. B<>t. i. 218; extremities tawny-puberu- 

 lous, stipules deciduous, leaflets 5-9 more or less broadly elliptical shortly 

 acuminate entire, when pressed flat the margins (of young leaves) infolded 

 beneath glabrou>. panicles terminal, of fl. lateral branches .successively 

 shorter, buds globose or ovoid at first enveloped in rotundate deciduous 

 tawny-tomentose bracts, calyx trifid, petals imbricate, stamens of g fl. in- 

 serted in disk around glabrous rudiment of ovary. Ainyris /.cyjanica, Rdz 

 O//X. iv. -Si. IJalsjiniodi'iulruiii I zeylaiiicum, Kunthin Ann. Sc. ^"i. 



ii. 349 (adnot.j; J)C. Prndr. ii. 7(j ; Tit twites En ant. 79. C. balsamiferum, 

 Mnmi Cat. 68. 



CEYLON, in warm inni>t districts, ascending to 1500 ft., Tliinttte*, &c. 



Leaves of flowering slio..ts 1 it. more or less; stipules luuderatrly lar-v inserted on 

 the rachis at some little .listainv from the base, obliijiu-ly rotundate-sagittate, shortly 

 sstipitate, early deciduous i '//<,/>//'/, ,s) ; leatlets 4-6 by 14~'^4 i n -> petiolule ^-4 in. i\:- 

 makjloiver ^ in. long. Ornri/ glabrous, inrrassato above as iu C. Commune. DnijX' 

 ellipsoidal, sinouth, obscurely :i-goi,oiis, with very thick bony stone. Very nearly allied 

 to C. commune, and now that Thwaites linds rotundatfr-sagittate <'anv caducous sti- 

 pules, there remains little besides the shorter petiolules of the leaflets to separate it from 

 that species. 



4. C. secundum, A. \V.fienti.; tawny-pubescent, stipules or early 

 deciduous, leaflets 7-9 oblong shortly acuminate entire or faintly den- 

 ticulate glabrous above except midrib, shortly pubescent, with lateral nerves 

 in 10-15 pairs prominent with conspicuous transverse venation beneath, 

 panicles terminal rusty-ton;entose, buds .subsessiie in bracteate sessile or 

 pedunculate glomerul-s, calyx broadly 3-lobed, petals imbricate, stamens 

 confluent with short disk around ovoid-subulate glabrous rudiment of ovary, 

 fruit trigonous ellipsoidal, with thick bony stone. Canarium, Wall. Cat. 

 9046 (as to JSincapore specimens), 



{SiNCAi-oKK, W< illicit : MAL.UVA, ^' ////////, Mf/i/n/at/. 



Leaves 1 ft. more or less on flowering bi-andies, leaflets varying from ovate- to lanceo- 

 late-oblong, upper 3-6 by 1^-2.^ in., petiolule to nearly 4 in. Panicles shorter than or 

 as long as leaves, with successively shorter branches ; bracts ovate-oblong and rotundate 

 enclosing the Imds. /''/"/// H-2 in., glabrous. Nearly allied to C. purpurascens, but 

 I cannot find stipules in any of the 'numerous specimens. 



5. C. purpurascens, A. W. Benn. ; extremities shortly pubescent- 

 tomentose with rotundate-cordate stipules, leaflets 7-9 ovate-oblong to 

 ovate-elliptical acuminate glabrous except puberulous midrib above pur- 

 plish-glaucescent with minute scattered pubescence and 10-14 pairs 

 of prominent lateral nerves with conspicuous transverse reticulation 

 beneath, panicles terminal and from upper axils, pedicels (of fl.) very 



