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GENUS I. BOSWELLIA. 
Deeandria Monogynia. Sex: Syst: 
Deriv. Named after Dr. John Boswell of Edinburgh. 
Gzn. Cuan. Trees, producing balsam and resin: calyx 5-tooth= 
ed, persistent: petals 5, obovate-oblong, very patent, acute at the 
base, inserted under the margin of the disk: alternate stamens 
shorter: anthers caducous: disk longer than the calyx, crenulated: 
ovary oblong, sessile: style the length of the stamens, caducous: 
stigma 3-lobed: capsule 3-angled, 3-celled, 3-valved’: seeds soli+ 
tary in each cell, surrounded by a broad membranaceous wing. 
(1) B. erasra. (Roxb) 
Tdent, W.& A. prod. I. p. 74..-Roxb. fl. Ind, II. p. 384— 
Dec. prod. IT. p. 76. 
Engrav. Roxb. Cor. III. t. 207. 
Spc. Cxtar. Leaves deciduous, alternate, unequally pinnated : 
leaflets opposite, broadly lanceolate, obtuse, serrated : racemes tere 
minal, fascicled, shorter than the leaves: flowers white. 
Mountainous districts of Coromandel. 
(2) B. ruunivera. (Colebr.) 
Ident. W.& A. prod. I. p. 174.—Colebr. in As. Res, IX. p. 
377.—Roxb. fl. Ind. IT, p. 383. 
Syn. B. serrata, Stackh,? 
Spec. Cuan. Leaves alternate, unequally pinnated: Teaflets 
oblong, obtuse, serrated, pubescent : racemes axillary, shorter than 
the leaves: flowers white. 
Mountains of Coromandel. South Concans. Belgaum and Buns 
‘dlecund, Flowering in March and April. ; 
GENUS Il. CANARIUM. 
Polygamia Dicecia. Sex: Syst: 
Deriv. The native name for the tree in the Moluccas latinized, 
Gen. Cuan. Trees: calyx 3-lobed, lobes unequal: petals 3, 
twice as long as the calyx, oblong, concave: stamens 6, shorter than 
the petals, unequal: ovary. sessile, ovate-globose, 3-celled: style 
very short or wanting: stigma 3-lobed: fruit drupe: nut very 
cate oT la 8-celled, two cells often abortive: ‘seed solitary in 
each cell, | 
(1) C. commune. (Linn. ) 
Ydent. W. & A. prod. I. p. 175.—Dee. prod. TI. p. 79.—Roxb. 
fl. Ind. III. p. 187. ; 
Syn. Amyris Zeylanica, Reiz.—Balsamodendron Zeylanicum, 
