Ochna.] XIX. OCHNACE^. 61 



Sub-Himalayan tract, principally in Sal forests. Satpura range. South 

 Konkan. Underground stem perennial, throwing -up annually, after the jungle- 

 fires, a number of subherbaceous stems to 2 ft. high, bearing leaves and flowers. 

 Fl. April, May. 



Obdee XX. BURSERACE^. 



Trees or shrubs, often resinous. Leaves generally alternate, 3-foliolate, 

 or imparipinnate, in some cases l-foUolate, without stipules. Flowers 

 small, bisexual or polygamous. Calyx 3-5-cleft. Petals 3-5. Stamens 

 as many as petals, or twice their number, inserted on the edge or outside 

 base of disc ; anthers 2-celled, longitudinally dehiscent. Ovary free, 

 2-5-ceUed ; ovules generally 2 in each cell, axile. Fruit generally drupa- 

 ceous. Seeds one or few, pendulous, without albumen ; cotyledons gen- 

 erally twisted or crumpled, radicle pointing upwards. — Gen. PL i. 321 ; 

 Eoyle ni. 174 ; "Wight lU. i. 180. (Suborder of Terebinthacese). 



Leaves imparipinnate, with numerous leaflets. 



Fruit a 3-valved capsule, the valves separating i 



from the axis ; calyx small, open ... 1. Boswellia. 



Fruit a drupe ; calyx campanulate ... 2. GABtTQA. 

 Leaves generally 3-foliolate 3. Balsamodendron. 



Bursera serrata, Wall. {Idea indica, W. & A. Prodr. 177), a large tree, with 

 elose-grained timber, esteemed for furniture — Assam, Chittagong, the Rajmahal 

 hills — belongs to this family, and may possibly be found further west. Leaves 

 large, imparipinnate ; leaflets lanceolate, acuminate, glabrous. Flowers small, 

 in axUlaxy panicles ; calyx small, indistinctly dentate ; petals 5, inserted below 

 disc ; stamens 10 ; stigma sessile ; drupe generally l-seeded. 



1. BOSWELLIA, Eoxb. 



Trees abounding in resin, with alternate imparipinnate leaves, crowded 

 at the ends of branches. Flowers bisexual, hypogynous. Calyx small, 

 open, 5-7-cleft. Petals 5-7. Stamens mostly 10, inserted at the base 

 of the annular disc. Ovary haK immersed in the disc, 3-celled; 2 

 collateral ovules in each cell. Fruit a 3-valved capsule, opening septi- 

 fragaUy, the dissepiments remaining attached to the axis, and bearing 3 

 seeds, pendulous from the top of the inner angle, enclosed in a hard, bony 

 shell, with a broad membranous wing, which is not the testa of the 

 seed, but the endocarp of the fruit, separated from the "outer layer of the 

 pericarp. Seed without albumen ; cotyledons trifid, lobes laciniate ; 

 radicle superior. 



1. B. tliurifera, Colebrooke ; Eoxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 383 ; W. & A. Prodr. 

 174._Syn. B. glabra, Eoxb. PI. Cor. t. 207; Fl. Ind.; W. & A. Prodr. 

 1. c. ; Bedd. Fl. Sylv. 124. Boswellia serrata, Stackhouse (probably). 

 "Vem. Salhe, Sale, Salai, Salei, Seder. Local names : Guggar, Kamaon ; 

 Bhor-salai, Gonds., C.P. 



Young parts and leaves mostly pubescent, with simple hairs. Leaves 

 crowded near ends of branches, 8-15 in. long; leaflets 8-15 pairs, oppo- 

 site, or nearly opposite, sessile, lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, from an 



