Cmwriuin. lU'RSEfiACEAE. 171 



3. COMMIPHORA CAUDATA, Engl. Pro tin m can datum, W. & A. 

 176 ; F. B. I. i. 530 ; Bedd. Fl. t. 125. 



Dry forests of the Deccan and Carnatic in Bellary, Cudda- 

 pah, Mysore, S. Arcot, rare in Travancore and Coimbatore. 

 A deciduous tree with papery bark and greyish soft wood. 

 Vern. Tel. Konda mamidi ; Kan. Konda mavu ; Tain. 

 Kiluvai. 



4. COMMIPHORA PUBESCENS, Engl. Protium 2>nl>rscens, W. & A. 

 176 ; F. B. I. i. 530. 



W. Ghats, in the Anamalai Hills (Beddoine). 

 A middling-sized tree. 



4. Protium, Burm. 



Trees. Lea res alternate, imparipinnate, rarely 1-foliolate ; 

 leaflets opposite, petiolulate ; stipules 0. Flowers small, her- 

 maphrodite or polygamous, in short branched panicles. Calij.i- 

 small, 4-6-lobed, imbricate. Petals 4-6, inserted under and outside 

 the disk, valvate. DM annular, crenately lobed, fleshy. Stamens 

 8-12, nearly equal, inserted at the base of the disk within the 

 petals, filaments subulate, anthers ovate. Ovary ovoid or sub- 

 globose, 4-5-celled ; style short ; stigma 4-5-lobed ; ovules 2 in 

 each cell, collateral. Fruit a globose or ovoid drupe with usually 

 1-8 pyrenes covered with a fibrous arilliform pulp ; pyrenes very 

 hard, bony. Seed conform to the pyrene ; testa membranous ; 

 cotyledons contortuplicate. 



PROTIUM SERRATUM, Engl. Bursera serrata, Colebr. ; F. B. I. 

 i. 530. Idea indica, W. & A. 177. 



N. Circars, Hills of the E. Ghats from Ganjam to the Godavari, 

 in ravines and along streams ; Deccan, in Hyderabad. 

 A large evergreen tree with serrate leaves, very small flowers, 

 a subacid 1-3-lobed fruit and a reddish close-grained wood. 

 Vern. Ur. Sorupotri moi ; Tel. Chitreka. 



5. Canarium, Linn. 



Tall trees. Leaves large, alternate, imparipinnate ; leaflets 

 usually petiolulate, opposite, often unequal, stipulate or exstipu- 

 late. Flowers hermaphrodite or polygamous, in terminal or 

 axillary often elongate panicles. Calyx cupular or urceolate, 

 3-lobed, valvate, persistent. Petals 3, imbricate or valvate, ovate 

 or oblong, inserted outside the disk. DM annular, entire or 



