TEREBIXTIIACE.JS. 207 



■wtich tliey tore off, the woimds given them by hunters. The 

 Biirseras of the Mascarene Islands, which have been named Murignia^ 

 such as B. ohtmifoUa ^ (fig. 265-268), have analogovis proper- 

 ties. Their gum-resin bears the common name of bastard Coh- 

 jjhanes ; extracted principally from the bark and fruit, it remains 

 fluid a long time, serves for the same purposes as tar, is employed 

 for lii;;htin2:, but emits much smoke and an acrid and disagreeable 

 odour.^ Among the Indian Burseras of the section Protiiim, we 

 notice an edible species, Tingulong of the Javanese, who eat the leaves 

 and fruit ; this will be our B. javanica? The American species of 

 the section Icica yield the majority of the fragrant, aromatic, stimu- 

 lant, resinous substances, often burning with the odour of incense, 

 recalling by their perfume the turpentines, essence of lemon, and 

 sometimes even nutmeg ; they often bear the names of Carana, Elemi, 

 and Tacahamaca. B. Tacahamnca * fui'uishes a Tacahamaca resin in 

 equinoctial America. B. Icicariba^ is said to have very edible aro- 

 matic fruits. Its roots have an astringent bark, depurative, antisy- 

 philitic ; it is said to produce the Elemi of Brazil. B. gxdanensis " 

 would be the tree yielding the incense of Cayenne, and the oily, 

 coloiudess Tacamahac. The Caranas due to this genus would be the 

 brown C. exuding from B. Carana^ and the white Gum-Carana 

 extracted from the B. altissima,^ a large tree of Cayenne, \dH\ bcaii- 

 tiful white or reddish wood, better known under the name of Iciea- 

 Cedar, and serving for wainscoting, furniture, and small boats. The 

 oleo-resin of B. dccandra^ (fig. 27-3, 276) is the CItipa of the (ndibis. 

 Its odom- recalls that of lemon ; it solidifies in yellow transjiarent 



' See p. 260, note 3. Pison and Maiicgbaf have described this tree, 



* "Many varieties are known, depending on from which Elorai is obtained by im/ision ; it is 

 the period of collection, the mode of extrac- collected twenty-four hours after and soon be- 

 tion, and the age of the tree it is collected comes a dry and brittle rosin. 



from." (March, in Adaiisoiiia, viii. 62). In ^ Icica guinnciisis AriiL. Guian. t. 131. — DC 



this respect it seems to be the same with Prodi: n. 3. — I. keptaiihijUa AuiiL. he cit. t. 



this product as with those of several other 130 (ex March, in Arliriisoiiia, viii. 52).— Hanc. 



Tcrcbiiith'icem. in Med. G:iz xx. 96. — Ami/ris ambroaiaca W. 



•■• Protiiim /ainnicum BuRM. Fl. Lid. 88. — tSpcc. ii. 335 [Jliiimon, Ariiunnu). 



Amijris Praliiim L. jUaiiti.is. 6.5. — Ku.Mi-H. IJird. 7 H. 13. K. Nov. Om. rl Spec. vii. flt. — Awi/rii 



Amboiii. vii. t. 23, fig. 1. Ciiraiia II. Relat. ii. 421, 435.— Gum. op. cit. 



* Icica Tacaliamnca Ii. B. K. Nov. Oeii. el i\\. nXd.—Q.Vi.- in Bull. Soc. Jiot.de Fr. ILV.IG. 

 Spec. vii. Zi.— Protiiim Taealidimcn JIarcu. Inc. » Icica iilli-isima Avm.. Guian. t. \Z2.—Aiivj- 

 cit. 52. ris altimiiniit W. Upcc. ii. 336. Gi'iRiiDRT ("/). 



' Idea Ineariha DC. Piodr. ii. 77, n. 6.— ci<. ii. 307) thinks this tree produces the fcm;ilo 



Nees et EiiEUM. Ilandh. iii. 126.— I.,iNi)L. VI. rosewood of Cayenne. 



iicd.Wl. — Amyrit ambiiiaiaea L. r. Suppl. 216!' ' AuiiL. OmaH. i. 316. — /. peiilaiidra Aim.. 



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