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■wtich. they tore off, the wounds given them by hunters. The 

 Burseras of the Mascarene Islands, which have been named Marignia, 

 such as B. ohtusifolia^ (fig. 265-268), have analogous proper- 

 ties. Their gum-resin, bears the common name of bastard Colo- 

 phanes ; extracted principally from the bark and fruit, it remains 

 fluid a long time, serves for the same purposes as tar, is employed 

 for lighting, but emits much smoke and an acrid and disagreeable 

 odour.^ Among the Indian Burseras of the section Protium, we 

 notice an edible species, Tingulong of the Javanese, who eat the leaves 

 and fruit ; this will be our B. javanica? The American species of 

 the section Idea yield the majority pf the fragrant, aromatic, stimu- 

 lant, resinous substances, often burning with the odour of incense, 

 recalling by their perfume the turpentines, essence of lemon, and 

 sometimes even nutmeg ; they often bear the tiames of Carana, Elemi, 

 and Tacahamaca. B. Tacahamaca * furnishes a Tacahamaca resin in 

 equinoctial America. B. leieariba^ is said to have very edible aro- 

 matic fruits. Its roots have an astringent bark, depurative, antisy- 

 philitic ; it is said to produce the Elemi of Brazil. B. guianensis * 

 would be the tree yielding the incense' of Cayenne, and the oily, 

 colourless Tacamahac. The Caranas due to this genus would be the 

 brown C. exuding from B. Carana,^ and the white Gum-Carana 

 extracted from the B. altissima^ a large tree of Cayenne, with beau- 

 tiful white or reddish wood, better known under the name of Icica- 

 Cedar, and serving for wainscoting, furniture, and small boats. The 

 oleo-resin of B. decandra^ (fig. 276, 276) is the Chipa of the (ialibis. 

 Its odour recalls that of lemon ; it solidifies in yellow transparent 



1 See p. 260, note 3. Pison and Marcgbaf have described this tree, 



2 " Many varieties are known, depending on from wtich Elemi is obtained by incision ; it is 

 the period of collection, the mode of extrac- collected twenty-four hours after and soon be- 

 tion, and the age of the tree it is collected comes a dry and brittle resin. 



from." (March, in Adansonia, viii. 62). In ^ Idea guianensis Aubl. Guian. t. 131. — DO. 



this respect it seems to be the same with Prodr. n. 3: — J. heptaphylla Aubl. loc cit. t. 



this product as with those of several other 130 (ex Makch. in Adansonia, viii. 52).— Hanc. 



Ta-ebinthacete. * in Med. Gaz xx. 96. — Amyris ambrosiaca W. 



3 Pfotium javanicum Bukm. Fl. Ittd. 88. — Spec. ii. 33.5 {Haiawo, Arouaou). 



Amyris Protium, L. Mantiss.&S.—Rvavn. Herb. 7 H. B. K. Nov. Gen. et Spfc.vii. 9i.—AimjHs 



Amboin. vii. t. 23, fig. 1. Carana H. Relat. ii. 421, 435.— Guib. op. cit. 



* Idea Tacahamaca H. B. K Nov. Gen. et Hi. 519.— OcPl. in Bull. Soc. Bot.de Fr. xv.l6. 



Spec. vii. 33. — Protimn Tacahamaca March, loc. « Idea altissima Aubl. Guian. t. 152.— Amy- 



cit. 52. ris altissima W. Spec. ii. 336. Guibottet {up. 



s Idea Iricariba DO. Prodr. ii. 77, n. 6.— cit. ii. 397) thinks this tree produces the female 



Nbes et Eberm. Sandb. iii. 126.— Lindl. Fl. rosewood of Cayenne. 



Med. m.— Amyris ambrosiaca L. F. Suppl. 216 ? ' Aubl. Guian. i. 346.-7. pentandra Atiiil. 



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