168 FLORA OF II ADR AX. \Bowellia. 



Disk annular, usually lobed : 



Petals valvate ; pyrenes 1-3, free, covered with arilliform pulp 



4. Protium. 

 Petals usually imbricate ; pyrenes 1-3, combined, without pulp 



5. Ganarium. 

 1. Boswellia, Eoxb. 



Trees with papery bark. Leaves deciduous, alternate, impari- 

 pinnate, crowded at the ends of the branches ; leaflets opposite, 

 usually more or less crenate or serrate ; stipules 0. Flowers her- 

 maphrodite, small ; white or pink, in axillary racemes or panicles. 

 Calyx small, 5-lobed, persistent. Petals 5, distinct, imbricate. 

 Disk annular, fleshy, crenate. Stamens 10, alternately long and 

 short, inserted on or outside under the disk ; filaments subulate ; 

 anthers oblong or ovate. Ovary sessile, 3-celled ; style short ; 

 stigma 3-lobed; ovules 2 in each cell, collateral, pendulous. 

 Fruit a trigonous drupe containing 3 pyrenes, valves septicidal ; 

 pyrenes 1-seeded, bony, cordate with a long apex, surrounded by a 

 broad membranous wing. Seeds compressed, pendulous ; testa 

 membranous ; cotyledons multifid, contortuplicate. 



Leaflets deeply broadly crenate, oblong-lanceolate, pubescent ; racemes 



usually panicled ; drupes ovoid 1. serrata. 



Leaflets entire or shallow- crenate, lanceolate, obtuse, glabrous or only 

 puberulous on the nerves ; racemes usually simple ; drupes oblong-obovoid 



2. glabra. 



1. BOSWELLIA SERRATA, Eoxb. ; F. B. I. i. 528, excl. var. glabra. 

 B. thurifera, Colebr. ; W. & A. 174. 



Deccan, in Hyderabad, perhaps also Bellary, common in 

 N. and C. India. 



A large tree of dry rocky places, with ash-coloured bark of 

 papyraceous texture, conspicuous especially in the hot 

 season. Vern. Hind. Salai. 



2. BOSWELLIA GLABRA, Eoxb. ; Eoxb. Cor. PI. iii. t. 207 ; W. & A. 

 174 ; Bedd. Fl. 1. 174. B. serrata, Eoxb. var. glabra, F. B. I. 

 i. 528. 



Deccan and Carnatic from the Godavari to Mysore, in dry 

 forests on poor rocky soil. 



A large and conspicuous tree, with yellowish bark which 

 exfoliates in thin flakes, and moderately hard white or 

 brownish wood. It gives a fragrant gum-resin. Vern. 

 Tarn. Kungli, Gugulu ; Tel. Anduga ; Kan. Chitta. 



