Gr. King — Indian Species of Ganarium. [No. 4, 



bark a clear amber-like rezin exudes which, is used for a variety of 

 purposes, but chiefly to be burnt as incense. 



Plate X, G. bengalense, Roxb. — 1. Two leaflets. 2. inflorescence. 

 3. ripe fruit ; of natural size. 4. calyx. 5, 6, 7. petals. 8. starninal 

 column. 9. rudimentary ovary ; enlarged. 10. two stamens ; much 

 enlarged,. 



2. C. steictum, Roxb. Hort. Beng. 49: Fl. Ind. Ill, 138. Young 

 branches rufous-tomentose. Leaves 1 to If feet long (in young trees 

 up to even 4 feet) ; leaflets 7 to 9, ovate to elliptic, minutely serrate or 

 crenulate when young, entire or sub-entire when adult, shortly acumi- 

 nate, the base rounded or slig'htly cordate and sometimes sub-oblique ; 

 when young tomentose on both surfaces ; when adult the upper surface 

 glabrous and shining, the lower more or less tomentose with the 11 to 16 

 pairs of spreading rather straight main nerves bold and prominent 

 and the intermediate nerves distinct and parallel; length 3 to 6 in., 

 breadth 1*5 to 2 - 5 in., petiolule "25 or '3 in., that of the terminal leaflet 

 two or three times as long. Inflorescence more or less deciduously 

 rusty-tomentose, that of the staminiferous flowers a narrow racemose 

 panicle 6 to 9 in. long, its lateral branches being shortly peduncled 

 few-flowered cymes. Male flowers *35 in. long. Galyx tubular, with 

 3 shallow, broad, sub-acute teeth. Petals coriaceous, oblong, concave 

 and pubescent outside in the upper two-thirds, glabrous inside. Starninal 

 lube equal in length to the free part of the filaments and the anthers; 

 >e part of the filaments dilated towards the base, half as long as the 

 ovate apiculate anthers. Disc none. Rudimentary ovary short, depressed, 

 lobed, hispid. Female flowers *5 in. long, in few-flowered racemes 4 or 

 5 inches long. Galyx wider than in the male. Starninal tube also as 

 in the male, but shorter and the anthers with little or no pollen. Ovary 

 ovoid-cylindric, tapering into the short thick style; stigma conical. Ripe 

 drupe ellipsoid, tapering more to the apex than to the base, slightly 

 trigonous, glabrous, l - 5 in. long, and "75 in diam. Wight and Arnot 



Lrom., 375: Dalz. and Gibs. Fl. Bombay, 52: Beddome Fl. Sylvat. 

 [, t. US ; Hooker Fl. Br. Ind. I, 534 ; Engler in DC. Monog. Phan. 

 IV, 118. Pimela stricta, Blume Mus. Bot. Lugd. Bat. I, 226. 



Peninsular India, in the moist Forests of the Western Ghats up to 

 elevations of 4,000 to 4,500 feet. 



A very tall tree, the young leaves of a beautiful red colour, those 

 of young trees or of young shoots of old trees being much larger than 

 the measurements given above. According to Col. Beddome, the flowers 

 scasionally 4 petals and 8 stamens. The tree is known to Euro- 

 p ,ns in Southern India (Beddome Fl. Sylv., 128) as "black 

 dammar." Its Tamil name, says the same authority, is Karapu Kungi- 



