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(1) G. prinnata. (Roab.) 
Ident. W. & A. prod. I. p. 175.—Roxb. fl. Ind. IT. p. 400.—< 
Dec. prod. II, p. 80. 
Engrav.* Rheede Mal. IV. t. 83.—Wight’s Icon. t. 1594-5. 
Spec. Cuar. Large tree : leaves unequally pinnated, deciduous : 
leaflets nearly sessile, crenate-serrated : sepals erect: disk fleshy, 
.5-cleft; style about as long as the petals: drupe globose, fleshy, 
with from 1 to 5 one-seeded nuts: flowers panicled, yellowish-white, 
often covered with a mealy kind of substance. 
The Ghauts. Coromandel. Assam and Northern India. 
Flowering in March. 
GENUS IV. PROTIUM. 
Diecia Decandria. Sex: Syst: 
Deriv. Meaning unknown. 
_ Gen. Cuan. Balsamiferous trees: calyx 4-toothed, persistent, 
linear-oblong: stamens 8, shorter than the corolla, inserted under 
‘the margin of the disk: disk fleshy, deeply crenated: ovary 2- 
celled, with 2 collateral ovulesin each cell: style very short: stigma 
4-lobed : drupe globose or ovate: nut thick and hard, 1-celled by 
abortion, at length divisible into 2 nuts: seed solitary. 
(1) P. corpatum. (W. § A.) 
Ident. W. & A. prod. I. p. 176. 
Srrc. Cuar. Branches not thorny: leaves unequally pinnated : 
leaflets 1-2 pair, ovate-lanceolate, with a long sharp acumination, 
quite entire: panicles fascicled, supra-axillary from the young 
shoots, 2~3 times dichotomous, lax. 
Peninsula. 
(2) P. pubescens. (W. & 4.) 
Ident, W.& A. prod. I. p. 176. 
Spec. Cuan. Leaves unequally pinnated: leaflets about 3 pair, 
nearly sessile, roundish-ovate, with a short obtuse acumination, 
:quite entire, densely pubescent on the under side: panicles 2-8 
times dichotomous, lax. 
Peninsula. 
GENUS V. BALSAMODENDRON. 
Dicecia Octandria. Sex: Syst: 
.Deriv. From Balsamon, balsam, and Dendron, tree. 
Gzy. Cuan. Trees, giving balsam: leaves 3—5-foliolate: calyx 
