310 BENGAL PLANTS. 
Order XXXIII. BURSERACEZ. 
Trees or shrubs with balsaminous juice es alternate, 
rarely opposite, unequally pinnate or 3- He pee 1: : 
stipules, or lowest stipule-like leaflets, foliaceous, or 0. F 
regular, hermaphrodite polygamous or subdicecious, 
racemes or panicles. Disk usually conspicuous, ann | 
like, free or adnate to base of calyx. Sepals united in a 3-4 
often minute calyx ; lobes imbricate or valvate. Petals 3-6. 
rarely connate, imbricate or valvate. Stamens as many 
indehiscent drupaceous with 8-5-pyrenes, rarely dehiscent 
capsular. Seeds solitary, pendulous, with membranous 
silane 0; embryo with usually membranous cone 
with fleshy cotyledons 
Drupes trigonous, vias dehiscent, pyrenes separating « 
Drupes globose or ovoid, indehiscent, pyrenes not eT 
Calyx 5-fid urceolate, the tube clothed a the disk nee 
Calyx 4-6-lobed imbricate, disk annula 
151. Boswellia Roxb. 
Tall trees, with balsaminous ; juice and papery bark; le ” 
nate, — with opposite usually serrate leaflets ; stip 
# s hermaphrodite, small, white, in axill 
panicles. Calyx small, 5-toothed, persistent. Pet 
narrowed below, imbricate. Stamens 10, siclaiaell lng 
shorter, inserted at the peg of the disk. Ovary sessil 
Behar; Chota Nagout. pe 
A iferous tree. Vernac. Salhe, sali, saleya 
