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P. 61. Bursera serrata, in Burma.— Vem. ThadAhm, S. Kurz. 

 P. 61, line 6 from below, read " Boswellia serrata, Roxburgh, in Asiatic Re- 

 searches, ix. 379." 



The correct name of this common and well-known tree has not yet been finally 

 settled. H. T. Colebrooke, in a paper on OKbanum or Frankincense, As. Res. 

 ix. 377 (London edition of 1809), gives Roxburgh's figure and description of it 

 under the name of £ . serrata. Colebrooke found it frequent ia the forest between 

 the Sone (Soane) and Nagpur (vem. Soldi), on the route by which he travelled 

 to Berar ia 1797, and came to the conclusion that it was the tree yielding the 

 Olibanum of commerce. In a note at the end of his paper he stated, that if 

 the genus had not already received a botanical name, it might have been suit- 

 ably denominated Libcmus thurifera. In a later volume of the Asiatic Researches, 

 xi. 152 (Calcutta edition of 1810), Dr John Fleming published a catalogue of 

 Indian medicinal plants, the names and characters of new species being, as he 

 says, transcribed from Roxburgh's manuscript, and among them will be found, 

 at page 158, Boswellia thurifera, Roxb. (Salai, Hiadi). Fleming refers to Cole- 

 Tjrooke's paper in the ninth volume, and there is no doubt that he means the 

 same tree. It is evident, therefore, that Roxburgh, soon after the pubKca- 

 tion of Colebrooke's paper, probably by way of compliment to the author's sug- 

 gestion, altered the name from serrata into thurifera. Since that time both 

 names have been employed by. different botanists. — Roxburgh Catalogue, p. 

 32, and Flora Indica, ii. 383, Graham (Cat. 42), and Wight & Arn. (Prodr. 174) 

 adopt the name ihurifer'a, while De CandoUe (Prodr. ii. 76, 1825), Colebrooke 

 in a paper on Boswdlia (Trans. Linn. Soo. xv. 363, 1827), and Wallich 

 (Cat. 8486) give the name B. serrata to the same tree. De Candolle quotes 

 Stackhouse, Extracts from Bruce's Travels in Abyssinia respecting the Balsam 

 and Myrrh Trees, Bath, 1815, as authority for the name, but Stackhouse, 

 p. 19, calls it B. serrata, Roxb., and refers to Colebrooke's paper in the 

 Asiatic Researches, from which he extracts his account of the tree. It cannot 

 be said that either of the names has been more generally used by botanists, and, 

 under these circumstances, the older name, 5. serrata, ought to take precedence. 

 There is, however, this against it, that the leaflets, though described as serrate, 

 are obtusely dentate, and often entire. 



B. qlabra, Roxb., first described in the Coromandel Plants, iii. p. 4, is, as ex- 

 plained at p. 62, a doubtful species. Graham (Cat. 42) identifies it with the 

 tialai of the bare rocky hills of the Dekkan and the Satpura range. 



P. 67. In Burma, I have seen Melia indica and M. AzedaracH only cultivated, 

 but's. kurz informs me that M. indica is wild in the Yoma hills of the Prome 

 district, and I find a note in my herbarium that M. indica is wild beyond the 

 British frontier. This is a subject for farther inquiry. Accordmg to Mason, 

 the Perdan Lilac is caUed KamcJcha, and the Neem, which is cultivated by 

 the Burmans on account of its medicinal qualities, Thimbau kamakha, JMica*- 

 ing importation by ship (thimbau) from beyond the seas, as m the case of Thtm- 

 ban thUGarica Papayd) and other foreign trees introduced mto Buraia 



P 68 Rovle 111 141, mentions two species of Mem m North India besides 

 the 'Ne^, one the 'BaJcavn, the other the Zlei; but Madden, in As. Soc. Journ. 

 xviii. i. 638, points out that there is no difference between them. 



P. 69. Mdia compodta has the inside of the stammal tube covered with 

 white hairs, which protrude at the mouth. mr.; ■ , a a\ 



P. 69. Amoora Rohituka, common m Burma.— Vem. TUtm (red wood). 



P 72 Tl^'charMters here' given to distinguish G. serrata from Toona demand 

 farther inquiry on the spot. In Kunawar, G. serrata has its upper limit oppo- 



site^Cherg^^^^ Mee*'. Common in Prome district, S. Kurz. 



