170 FLORA OF MADRAS. [Cmnmiphora. 



entire crenate or serrate, lateral ones often small ; stipules 0. 

 Flowers polygamous, small, fascicled or in paniculate dichasia. 

 Calyx cupular urceolate or tubular, 4- rarely 5-6-lobed, valvate, 

 persistent. Petals 4, rarely 5-6, inserted on or under the margin 

 of the disk. Disk cupshaped. Stamens 8-10, inserted on or 

 under the margin of the disk, alternately long and short ; fila- 

 ments subulate or filiform, sometimes dilated at base ; anthers 

 ovate or oblong, dehiscing longitudinally. Ovary ovoid, sessile, 

 2-4-celled ; style short ; stigma 3-4-lobed ; ovules 2 in each cell, 

 collateral. Fruit an ovoid or subglobose fleshy drupe, 2-6-valved ; 

 pyrenes crustaceous or bony, one only seed-bearing. Seed with 

 membranous testa ; cotyledons contortuplicate, very thin. 



Armed ; flowers few, in fascicles or solitary, leaves small, 3-foliolate, the 



side leaflets smaller than the end one : 



Calyx-lobes as long as the tube, glandular ; leaflets 1-3, dentate above, 



obovate ; branches ending in a sharp spine 1. Mukul. 



Calyx-lobes shorter than the tube, glabrous; leaflets 3, entire or 

 broadly crenate, obtuse ; many branchlets, all ending in sharp spines 



2. Kerryi. 



"Unarmed ; flowers many, in long-peduncled paniculate dichasia up to 



5 in. long ; leaves imparipinnate with 2-5 pairs of leaflets, the side ones 



not much smaller than the end one : 



Leaflets glabrous, ovate or orbicular, acute or long-acuminate, usually 

 abruptly, the end one long-petioled ; calyx-tube glabrous without 



3. caudata. 



Leaflets pubescent, ovate or obovate, shortly acuminate, the end one 

 subsessile ; calyx-tube pubescent without 4. pubescens. 



1. COMMIPHORA MUKUL, Engl. Balsamodendron Mi ikul, Hook. ; 

 F. B. I. i. 529. 



Bellary and Mysore (Wight). 



A small tree or shrub, with greenish-yellow bark and soft 



white wood. The gum is used in medicine. 



2. COMMIPHORA BERRYI, Engl. Balsamodendron Berryi, Arn. ; 

 F. B. I. i. 529; Bedd. Fl. t. 126. Protium gileadense, 

 W. & A. 177. 



Dry forests of the N. Coimbatore Hills, planted to make 

 hedges from thence southwards in the Carnatic ; Tinne- 

 velly District (Barber). 



A good-sized tree (Beddome) with many sharp spines. It 

 gives a gum-resin. 



