Gamga.] xxxvi. burseeace^. (Alfred W. Bennett.) 529 



A tree 30-40 ft. Leaves 1 ft. or more, pubescent when young, afterwards glabrous. 

 Panicle very large, compound, pubescent. Oalyx-teeth ovate, pubescent. Petals linear, 

 inserted between the calyx- teeth. Disle completely clothing the tube of calyx. Stamens 

 about as long as the petals. Ovary ovoid, narrowing into the hairy style ; stigma 

 capitate, 5-lobed. Drupe black, " size of a gooseberry." 



4. BAX.SAiaODENDROM', Eunth. 



Balsamif erous often spiny trees or skrubs. Leaves alternate, 1-5-f oliolate 

 or imparipinnate ; leaflets sessile, oblique, crenate or serrate. Flowers 

 small, polygamous, fasciculate, on short petioles or sessile. Calyx tubular, 

 3-4-tootlied, persistent. Petals 3-4, valvate. Dish erect, cupular. Stamens 

 6-8, usually 4 long and 4 short, inserted on the margin of the disk. Ovary 

 sessile, 4-celled, surrounded by the disk ; style short, stigma obtuse 4-lobed ; 

 ovules 2 in each cell. Drupe ovoid, containing a 1-3-celled and -seeded 

 stone or 1-3 stones.— Distbib. India, Arabia, Tropical and Southern Africa ; 

 species 6-10. (See Berg, in Bot. Zeit. 1862. 153, 161.) 



1. B. Mukul, Hook, ex Stocks Hn Hook. Kew Joum. Bot. i. 259, t. 8 ; 

 branches generally ending in a sharp spine, leaves l-3-foliolate, leaflets 

 smooth and shining obovate nearly sessile toothed at the end. Boiss. Fl. 

 Orient, ii. 3 ; Brandis For. Flor. 64. B. Roxburghii, Stocks in Bomb. Trans. 



■ 1847 {excl. syn.) ; Dab. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. Swppl. 19 {not of Am.), ffl B. 

 Wightii, Am. in Ann. Nat. Hist. iiL 86 ; Wight III. i. 185. 



SiNDH, Stocks; Kajpootaka, Bednore, Brandis; Khandeish and Beeae, Dalz. & 

 Gibs.; ? Mysore, Bellary, Wight. — Disteie. Belucbistan, Arabia? 



A small tree 4-6 ft. Branches slightly ascending. Flowers nearly sessile, a few in each 

 fascicle, unisexual, the male with small abortive ovary, the female withshort barren sta- 

 mens. Oalyx forming a cylindrical cup, glandular-hairy. Petals 4-5, ligulate, brownish 

 red, recurved at the tip, 3 times as long as calyx. Disk 8-10-toothed. Stamens 8-10. 

 Stigma obscurely 2-lobed. Drupe red, ovate-acuminate, containing 2 2-celled stones, 

 rarely4-valved.— I follow the suggestion of Br.indis in referring to the Bellary plant 

 [B. Wightii) under B. Mukul, from which it appears to be indistinguishable, though 

 without flowers. Brandis remarks, " This speicies will probably be found to lie^indi- 

 genous on arid rocky hills throughout Rajputana and a great part of the Dekkan (I.e. 

 p. 65). — Gugal. 



2. B. Boxburg'Ixil, Arn. in Ann. Nat. Hist. iii. 86 ; branches spiny, 

 leaves 3-foliolate, terminal leaflet very finely serrulate, lateral leaflets very- 

 small. Wight El. i. 185. Amyris Commiphora, Eoxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 244 ; Wall. 

 Gat. 8498. 1 A. AgaUocha, Eoxb. Hort. Beng. 28. 



Easteeh Benoal; Silhet and Assam, ^OicJar-jr^, <*c- , , , ., 



Very similar to B. Mukul, and possibly identical, but only imperfectly known ; the 

 leaves appear to be larger and of a thinner texture. I have only seen specimens ot 

 Wallich's and Bottler's from the Mission Garden of Madras, to which Bottler has 

 attached the name Amyris serratifoUa, nob. 



3. B. pubescens, Stocks in Bomb. Trans. 1847 ; Hook. Kew Joum. Bot.; 

 264, t. 9 ; branches not spiny, leaves petioled, 3-5-foliolate, leaflets entire. 

 Boiss. Fl. Orient, ii. 2 ; Brands For. Flor. 64. 



Eocky parts of Sindh, Stocks.— Dis'sb.ib. Belucbistan. ,. , , 



A small tree with pubescent unarmed branches. Leaves on sender petioles longer 

 than the blade, soft and downy when young, lateral leaflets nearly orbicular terminal 

 obovate-cuneate, petiolulate. Flcmers sessile. Stamens equal. Drape red, witn i 

 stones. 



4. B. Berryi, Arn. in Ann. Nat. Hist. iii. 86; branches spiny, leaves 3- 

 foUolate petioled glabrous entire, calyx 3-4-cleft, petals 3-4, stamens 6-8, 



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