Ouratea.] BURSERACEAE. 167 



Stamens 10, inserted at the base of the disk ; filaments very short ; 

 anthers linear, dehiscing by terminal extrorse pores. Ovary 

 deeply 5-6-lobed, lobes 1 -celled ; styles basal, connate ; stigmas 

 simple ; ovule 1 in each cell, erect. Fruit of 5 or fewer distinct 

 drupes seated on the enlarged disk. Seed erect ; testa mem- 

 branous ; albumen ; cotyledons fleshy, plano-convex ; radicle 

 very short. 



OURATEA ANGUSTIFOLIA, Gilg. Gompliia angustifolia, Vahl ; 

 F. B. I. i. 525 ; W. & A. 152. 



W. Coast and lower slopes of W. Ghats from S. Canara to 

 Tinnevelly, up to 3,000 ft., in evergreen forests. 

 A small tree with shining leaves and an intramarginal nerve ; 

 drupes reniform, reticulate; wood reddish-brown, even- 

 grained, hard. Vern. Tain. Ramanchi ; Mai. Chavakampu. 



Family XXXYII. BURSERACEAE. 



Trees or shrubs with balsaminous juice. Leaves alternate, very 

 rarely opposite, imparipinnate, 3-foliolate or rarely 1-foliolate, 

 exstipulate or rarely stipulate. Flowers regular, hermaphrodite 

 or polygamous, usually small, in racemes or panicles. Calyx 

 3-6-lobed, imbricate or valvate. Petals 3-6, free or rarely connate, 

 imbricate or valvate. Disk annular or cupular, free or adnate to 

 the calyx-tube. Stamens as many as or twice as many as the 

 petals, inserted below or on the disk ; filaments free, rarely con- 

 nate ; anthers 2-celled, dehiscing longitudinally. Ovary free, 2-5- 

 rarely 1- celled ; style simple ; stigma undivided or 2-5-lobed ; 

 ovules 2, rarely 1 in each cell, axile, usually pendulous. Fruit 

 drupaceous, indehiscent with 2-5 pyrenes or dehiscent and pseudo- 

 capsular. Seeds solitary, pendulous ; testa membranous ; 

 albumen ; embryo with membranous usually contortuplicate 

 cotyledons ; radicle superior. 



Drupe dehiscent valvately, trigonous, the pyrenes separating ; seeds 



compressed, winged 1. Boswellia. 



Drupe indehiscent, globose or ovoid. 

 Disk cupshaped : 



Disk adnate to the calyx ; pyrenes 1-5, bony, pitted, 1-seeded 



2. Garuga. 

 Disk free ; pyrenes combined, one only seed-bearing 



3. Gommiphora. 



