AMYRIS

(from a, intensive, and myron, balm; the whole of the trees in this genus smell strongly of balm or myrrh). O RD. Burse raceæ. Ornamental stove evergreen trees, abounding in a resinous fluid. Flowers white, disposed in panicles. Leaves unequally pinnate. They thrive well in a mixture of loam and peat; and cuttings root freely in sand, under a hand gla with bottom heat, during the spring months.