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which they tore off, the wouuds givcu them by hunters. The 

 Burseras of the Mascareue Islands, which have been named Marignia^ 

 such as B. ohtiisifolia ' (fig. 2G5-268), have analogous proper- 

 ties. Then* gum-resin bears the common name of bastard Colo- 

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

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

 for lighting, but emits much smoke and an acrid and disagreeable 

 odour.2 Among the Indian Burseras of the section Protium, we 

 notice an edible species, Tinr/ulong of the Javanese, who eat the leaves 

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

 the section Idea 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. Tacahamaca * furnishes a Tacahamaca resin in 

 eqviinoctial 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. [/iiiancnsis " 

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

 colom-less Tacamahac. The Caranas due to this genus would be the 

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

 extracted fi'om the B. altissima,^ a large tree of Cayenne, with beau- 

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

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

 oleo-resin of B. decandra^ (fig. 275, 27G) is the Chq^a of the (îalibis. 

 Its odoiu- recalls that of lemon; it solidifi.es in yellow transparent 



1 See p. 260, note 3. Pison and Marcgraf have described this tree, 



2 " Many varieties are known, depending on from which Elemi is obtained by incision ; il 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 resin. 



from." (March, in Adaiisoiiia, viii. 52). In ^ Icica guirtiuiisis ArnL. Giiinn. t. 131. — DC. 



this respect it seems to be the same with Proih: n. 3. — /. heptaphylla Audl. loc cit. t. 



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



Tcrebiiithncem. in Med. G'jz xx. 96. — Ami/ris ambrosiaca W . 



3 Protium javanicnm BuRM. Fl. Iiid. 88.^ Spec. ii. 33.5 {Hoiawn, Arauaou). 



Amijris Protium L. Maiitiss. 65.— Kumi-h. Her^' 7 H. B. K. Nov. Geii. et Sprc. vii. 9i.—Awi/rii 



Amboiii. vii. t. 23, fig. 1. Carana H. Eelat. ii. 421, 435.— Gum. op. cit. 



* Icica Tacahamaca H. B. K. Nov. Gen. et m. ô\9.—Gr.Vl.. in Bull. Soc. Bot.dc Fr. -^v.\6. 



Spec. vii. 33. — Protium Tacahamaca March, loc. « Idea attissima Aurl. Guian. t. 132. — ^;ji.y- 



cit. 52. ris attissima W. Spec. ii. 336. Guirourt {op. 



' Idea Iricariha DC. Prodr. ii. 77, n. 6.^ ct<. ii. 397) thinks this tree produces the female 



Nees et Eherm. Handb. iii. 126. — Lindl. Fl. rosewood of Cayenne. 



Med. 172. — Amyris ambrosiaca L. r. Suppl. 216 ? ' Aubl. Guian. i. 316. — I. pentaudra AiniL. 



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