CANARIUM BRUNNEUM. (Nat. ord. Buraeracese.) 



OaNARIUM, Linn.— GEN. CHAR. Flowers hermathrodite or polygamous, calyx uroeolate or cupulate 3-5 cleft (rarely only 2) valvate per- 

 sistent, petals 3-5 as long or longer than the calyx, valvate or imbricate, stamens 8-10 short erect or incurved (6 in some extra-Indian species) inserted 

 on to a long staminal tube, disk obsolete or none, or on the margin or outer side of a fleshy entire or undulate disk, filaments cohering more or less together 

 at the base and with the disk; ovary ovoid 2-3-4 celled, ovules 2 in each cell collateral fixed to the axis, stigma sessile or subsessile, capitate 3-4 lobed, 

 drupe ovoid or ellipsoid often 3 sided with a bony 1 seeded putamen, testa membranaceous, cotyledons contortuplicate, radicle short straight superior. 

 Large tree3 yielding resin, leaves alternate piunUe with or without stipules, the lowest pair of leaflets occasionally resembling stipules, leaflets opposite 

 entire or crenulate, pauicles axillary, flowers small. — Scutinauthe, Thm. Colophonia, Comm. Pimela, Lour Fl. Cochin. Cauariopsis, Blurne Mus. Bot. 1. 222. 



CANARIUM BRUNN'EUM. (Thw.) A tree 50 or 60 feet high, branchlets and young leaves rufo-tomentose, leaves 

 unequally pinnate 10-20 inches long, leaflets 5-11, oblong slightly oblique acuminate, entire, 4-8 inches long 2-3 broad reddish, peti- 

 olules 4 lines long aulcate above, tumid at the base, striated, panicles axillary many flowered tomentose, flowers 3 lines long, sepals 5 

 erect, petals 5 valvate fleshy coriaceous persistent, the length of the calyx, stamens 10 cohering in the lower part in a ring and con- 

 solidated with the base of the calyx and corol, anthers oblong introse, fixed by their back, ovary 2 celled, drupe oblong rufo-tomentose 

 attenuated at both ends about 1 inch long, cotyledons undivided. Thw. En. PI. Zey. p. 410. Scutinanthe brunnea, Thw. Hook. Journ. 

 of Bot. viii./?. 2G6. t. 8 & En. Pl.Ze.yL p. 78. 



Ceylon, in the Central provinces, at aneleoxtion of 2,003 -3,000 feet, called Mahaoulumora- 



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