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Spondias dulcis, a native of the Mauritius and the Socie- 
ty Islands, has been introduced, and at present grows in the 
Botanic Garden at Bath. 
VII. Bursera. 
Flowers polygamous. Calyx small, 3-5-partite, 
with the lobes obtuse. Petals 3—5 , during aestivation 
valvular. Stamens 6—8. Disk annular, subocto- 
crenated. Ovary ovate, 3-celled : style short, 3-fid 
at the apex. Drupe oblong, 3-stoned, with the husk 
succulent, 3-valved ; c 2 of the stones abortive, and 1 
fertile, fleshy, 2-ovuled, 1 -seeded. Seed pendulous, 
exalbuminous ; cotyledons leafy corrugato-plicate ; 
radicle straight, superior. — De Gand . 
American balsam-bearing trees: leaves impari-pinnate, or 
simple from the odd leaflet only being present. — Natned, after 
Joachim Burser, Professor of Botany at Sara, in Naples. 
1. Bursera gummifera. West- Indian Birch-tree. 
Leaves deciduous generally impari-pinnate, leaflets 
ovate acute membranaceous, racemes axillary. 
Terebinthus major betulte cortice, fructu triangulari, Sloane, 
t. 199. — Terebinthus foliis cordatoovatis pinnatis, cortice laevi 
rufescente, floribus masculis spicatis, Browne , 345 Bursera 
gummifera, Jacq. Amer. 94. t. 65. — Swartz, Ohs. 130. 
HAB. Common in the plains. 
FL. March, April, with the new leaves. 
A tree, usually of moderate height, with the bark of a reddish 
colour, and the epidermis scaling off. Leaves impari-pinnate : 
leaflets 3— 4-paired, petiolulated, ovato-oblong, acuminate, en- 
tire, glabrous, shining above, nerved and veined : common pe- 
tioles, villous when the leaves are young, angulated, subarticu- 
lated at the insertion of the leaflets. The flowers make their 
appearance with the young leaves in Spring, small, not showy. 
$ Raceme subterminal, axillary, shorter than the common 
petiole, several together, compound, many-flowered : common 
peduncle terete, thickish, villous : pedicels filiform, several to- 
gether. Calyx minute, 5-partite. Petals 5, lanceolate, reflected. 
Stamens 5, 8, or 10, of nearly the same length as the petals; 
anthers yellow, linear. Ovary 0 : style 3-fid, caducous, or 0. 
^ Raceme as in the male, but the flowers are less numerous. 
Calyx minute 3-partite. Petals 3, ovate, acute, patent, decidu- 
ous. Stamens 6. Ovary ovate ; style short, thick, 3-fid : 
stigmata simple. Drupe sub-3-lobate, 3-celled, 3-valved : only 
