530 xxxTi. BURSEKACBiE. (Alfred W. Bennett.) 



the alternate ones smaller. Wight III L 185 ; Bedd. Fl. Syl. t. 126 ; 

 Bmndis For. Flcrr. 65. Protinm gileadense, W. & A. Frodr. 177, exolvd. 

 synm.; Grak. Vat. Bomb. PI. 43, (jjoi.B. gileadense DC). Amyns gilea- 

 densis, Roxh. Fl. Ind. ii 246. 



Western Peninbola ; in diy forests East of the Nilghiris and Sivagherry Hills (cul- 

 tivated for hedging throughout S. India). 



Branches patent, the lateral ones ending in very abrupt spines. Leaves alternate or 

 fascicled ; leaflets obovate, sessile, the terminal one twice as large as the lateral ones. 

 Flowers nearly sessile, solitary or fascicled. Dish small, 6-8-lobed. Drupe oblong, 

 apiculate. 



5. PXtOTIVItX, W. & A. 



Small balsamiferous spiny trees. Leaves alternate, 3-foliolate or impari- 

 pinnate, with entire or toothed leaflets. Flowers small, on long pedicels in 

 much branched cymes. Calyx smaU, cupular, 4^6-fid or -toothed. Petals 

 4^6, linear-oblong, valvate. Disk clothing the bottom of the calyx-cup, 

 with free margin. Stamens 8-12, inserted in the margin of the disk, 

 unequal. Ovary 3-4-ceUed, sessile ; style short, stigma 3-6-lobed ; ovules 

 3 in each cell. Drupe fleshy, globose, containing 1-4 pyrenes. Seeds oblong ; 

 radicle superior. — Disteib. India, Java, subtropical Africa. Species 3-4. 



1. P. caudatum, W. & A. Prodr. 176 j leaves 3-7-foliolate, leaflets 

 glabrous more or less abruptly acuminate, cyme branched many times 

 dichotomously greatly exceeding the leaves. Bedd. Fl. Sylv. t. 125 ; Wall. 

 Gat. 8494, 8495. 



Westekk Penissdla ; Cetlon, at JafFoa. 



Leaves long-petioled with short lateral leaflets, the terminal one with a long petiolule, 

 ovate, entire. Cymes bracteate at the branches, the braoteoles beneath the flowers very 

 ,ininute. Flowers polygamous, small. Caly x-\ohea deltoid, acute, as long as broad. 

 Petals about twice as long as calyx -lobes. Drupe about the size of a pea, nearly glo- 

 bular, subtended by the persistent calyx. 



Vae. Boxhwrghiana, W. & A. I.e. (species) ; leaflets not acuminate, but ending in a 

 short abrupt point. Amyris acuminata, Boxh. Fl. Ind. ii. 246 ; WcU. Cat. 8496. — 

 Pulney Mts., Wight. 



2. P. pubescens, W. & A. Prodr. 176 ; leaflets pubescent obtusely acu- 

 minate, cyme (panicle ?) rather dense branched many times but not 

 dichotomously. Wall. Gat. 8497. 



Western Peninsula, Wight. 



Leaflets about 7, ovate or obovate, entire, very shortly petiolulate. Bracts in the upper 

 part of the inflorescence exceeding flowers. Flowers rather shortly pedicelled. Calyx- 

 segments lanceolate, twice as long as broad. Drupe rather larger than in P. caudatum. 



6. BURSERA, Linn. 



Balsamiferous trees. Leaves alternate, imparipinnate, or rarely 1-foliolate. 

 Panicles short, branched. Flowers hermaphrodite or polygamous. Calyx 

 small, 4-6 -partite or -toothed, imbricate. Petals 4^6, short, patent at length 

 reflexed, usually valvate. Disk annular, crenate. Stamens 8-12, nearly 

 equal, inserted at tlie base of the disk. Ovary free, ovoid or subgloboae, 

 3-5-ceUed ; style very short, stigma 3-5-lobed ; ovules 2 in each cell. Dr-upe 

 globose or ovoid, with 3-5 pyrenes.— Disteib. About 40 species, mosUy 

 natives of Tropical America. 



1. B. serrata, Golehr. im, Trans. Linn. Soc. xv. 361, t. 4 ; leaflets nar- 

 rowed below acuminate, drupe globose 1-3-ceUed, the pedicel greatly 



