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4-toothed, persistent: petals 4, linear-oblong: stamens inserted 
under the disk: warts elevated between the stamens: ovary sin- 
ple: style 1, short, obtuse: berry or drupe ovate, acute, marked by 
4 sutures, 1-2-celled : cells 1-seeded. 
(1) B. Berry. (Arn.) 
Ident. W. & A. prod. I. p. 177. 
Syn. Amyris Gileadensis, Linn.—Rozb. fl. Ind. II. p. 246,—- 
Protium Gileadense, WV. § A. 
Spxc. Car. Ultimate branches spinescent, with small short 
abortive branchlets bearing the leaves and flowers at their extremi- 
ties : leaves palmately 3-foliolate : leafiets roundish-obovate, obtuse, 
obscurely crenulate, glabrous: peduncles 1-flowered, shorter than 
the petioles. 
Peninsula, where it is constantly used for making fences. 
(2) B. Acattocua. (W.§& 4.) 
Ident. Voigt. Hort. Calc. p. 150. 
Syn. B. Roxburghii, 4drn.—Amyris Agallocha, Roxb. H. B— 
A. Commiphora, Roxb. fi. Ind. Il. p. 244. 
Spec. Cuan. Tree: leaves elliptic, serrate, acute, with a pair of 
small leaflets at the base: lateral branchlets often terminating in 
spines: drupe size of a black currant, red, smooth: flowers axillary, 
short-pedicelled, fascicled on the scars of the fallen leaves, small, 
red. 
Silhet. Assam. Flowering in February and March. This tree 
produces the gum Bdellium of commerce. The plant when broken 
diffuses a grateful fragrance like that of the finest myrth. 
GENUS VI. ICICA. 
Deeandria Monogynia. Sex: Syst: 
Deriv. From the name of one of the species in Guiana. 
Grn. Cuar. Calyx 5-toothed: petals 5, inserted under the 
disk, recurved: stamens inserted with the petals: disk 10-crenated 
at the margin: ovary 5-celled, with 2 collateral ovules in each cell: 
stigma 5-angled: drupe globose, 1-3-celled, with a coriaceous 
sarcocarp splitting into valves: nuts very hard, solitary in each cell, 
covered with an ariliform pulp. 
(1) I. Invica. (FW. § A.) 
Ident. W. & A. prod. I. p. 177. 
Syn. I. Bengalensis, Voigt. Hort. Cale. p. 149.—Bursera sere 
rata, Wall, 
