43 
Roos---red; in allusion to the colour of the leaves and fruit of some of the 
apecies—Lam. ¢. 207. Gaert. ¢. 44. 
306. R. Lucipa. Sprengel syst. |. p, 937. Pluk, Phyt. t. 219. f. 9.-- 
Shining leaved Sumach:—intd. at Dapooree fromthe Cape. (Dr. Lush.) 
_.807. R. Parvirtora. Rox. Flora. 2. p.100. 
A small tree, intd. at Dapooree from Bengal. (Dr. Lush.) 
165. ODINA. Rox. Octandria Tetragynia, 
The native name in the south of India, latinized. 
308. O. Woprer. w. & A. 530. Rox. Flora. 2, p. 293. Wight’s Icones. 
Part 3, t. 60.—Rheed. Mal. 4. ¢. 32.—Royles Illust, Part, 3.t. 32. 
Shimtee:—a small tree; leaves deciduous after the rains; flowers very 
small; growing from the extremities of the branches, in pendulous filiform 
racemes; fruit kidney-shaped; size of a French-bean.—Malabar hill, Bombay, 
—Elephanta.—On the Ghauts, pretty common. 
Sus-Trise 3 SPONDIAE.—THE HoGPLUM-TRIBE. 
166. SPONDIAS. L. Decandria Pentagynia 
Greek name fora plum; which the fruitresembles. Lam. ¢. 384, Gaert, ¢. 104. 
309. S.MANGIFERA, W,& A. 533. Rox. Flora. 2. p. 451. Rheed. Mal. 1, 
t. 50. Rumph. Amb. 1. ¢t. 61.—Asiat. Res. 4. p. 284.—Poupartia mangifera. 
Don’s, syst.2. p.79. 
Ran Amb, Hog plum.—A large tree with pinnate leaves, deciduous in the 
cold weather; they have a very peculiar smell when bruized.—Giergaum 
and Mahim woods, Bombay; probably planted. 
310. S. Acuminata. Rox. Flora. 2. p. 453. 
Ambut or Ambada---A middle sized, elegant looking tree; leaves pinnate, 
leafets crenulate, polished. Fruit about the size ofa chickens egg; ripens 
in January,—The Hills near Kennery Caves, not common. 
311. S. Duxcis. Rox. Flora. 2. p. 452. S. cytheraea. Sonn. It. 2. p. 123. 
Gaert t. 103. Lam. t. 384. Rumph. Amb. I. ¢, 60. 
The Otaheite apple tree---much cultivated in the Society Islands. Intd, by 
N. from Bengal. 
Sus-Trise 4 Bursere®. Kunth. 
167. BOSWELLIA. Rox. Decandria Monogynia. 
Dr. John Boswell---of Edinburgh. 
312. B. Guapra. w. & a. 535. Rox. Flora. 2, p. 384. Rox. Cor. ¢. 207. 
Ainslie. Mat. Ind. 1. p. 186. Rumph. Amb. 2. t. 50. 
Salphullie, or Salai.---a small tree; leaves pinnate, deciduous in the cold 
weather. Flowers March and April, in terminal racemes; small, white, 
with a red nectary, and yellow authers.—Common on the bare roeky hills of 
the Deccan; abundant in the Sautpoora Jungles, where the gum may be bought 
at the rate of 12 lbs. per rupee. (Dr, Gibson.) 
This tree grows readily from cuttings. It matters little how large they are. 
313. B. Tuurirera. w. & A 536. Rox. Flora. 2. p. 283. Colebrooke 
in Asiat. Res. 9. p. 3:7. and 11. p. 158. and in Linn. Trans. 15. p. 355- 
Dup-Salai.--a tree; leaves pinnate;--S. Concan. N.--Jungles above Rajoor. 
(Dr. Gibson) Hill of Shendoor in the Chichooree Talook, of the Belgaum 
Collectorate. (Mr. Law.) 
These trees furnish the gum Olibanum of commerce.—the Libanos of the 
Greeks. (Rev. 18. 13.) Probably Mount Libanon, or the white mountain, took 
jts name from the Frankincense trees which grew on it, 
