208 BURSERACE. [ Bursera. 
BURSERA, L. 
Flowers hermaphrodite or polygamous. ae small, 4-6-parted 
or -lobed, imbricate. Petals as many, valvate or rarely imbricate, 
Stamens 8-12, nearly equal. Disk as aloes crenate. Ovary 3-5- 
celled, with 2 2 ovules in each cell ; ; style very short, with a 3-5-lobed 
stioma. Drupes indehiscent or rarely 2-3-valved, containing usually 
one, rarely more, one-seeded bony nuts.—Resinous trees, with un- 
paired leaves. Flowers minute, in axillary panicles or racemes. 
1. B. serrata, Wall.; H.f. Ind. Fl. i. 530.—Zkadee pen.—An 
eo tree (80—90 + 30— 50+ 6—8) , sometimes shedding leaves 
.S., the younger parts pubescent ; sabe: unpaired-pinnate, 
tie or tomentose while young ; leaflets in 8 to 5 pairs with 
an odd one, on rather long and slender petidlules, bluntish cus- 
pidate, while young usually quite entire, when full grown more or 
less serrate and quite glabrous; flowers minute, yellowish-green or 
greenish-white, very shortly pedicelled, forming axillary, solitary, 
ooes and elongate panicles shorter than the leaves ; drupes on thick- - 
ened peduncles, globular, sometimes obscurely 2-3- it as large as 
a small cherry, red, containing | to 3 one-seeded n os 
Has.—Frequent in the tropical ace especially along a a the east- 
ern alopes of the Pegu Yomah and. Martaban.—Fl. Apr.—s x L— ree tam. sf. 
SiS. 
ReMarKs.—Wood brown, oe red-brown, heavy, close-grained, of a 
somewhat unequal but fine fibre, tolera ly soft, takes fine polish. Good for fat. 
niture, etc. 
Pen ene L. 
in each cell ; eas essile. Drupes often colt wa eh Somes 
containing a ene Boy l-seeded nut. Testa of seed membranous. 
_— us trees, with unpaired-pinnate leaves, the nee 
pinnules sometimes stipule-like. Flowers small or middling-si 
in axillary pan 
* Stipules prin entire, Med decid : 
Leaflets serrulate ; disk-glands sm ooth, free, eoh cohiering by pairs . C. euphylium. 
Leaflets f Stip disk lobes hairy, united ia a ee i ob pagers 
* * Stipules pectinately cut, persisten renee 
euphylh Kz. ; Ind. Fl. i. 535.—An evergreen 
tree oR A leaves” 2-3 ft. aes unpaired-— 
