BALSA MOD END RON

(Lat.), n. n. Ba?l(baS])/’sa%m-o(o?)- de?nd‘ro?n. From BéAcanov, balsam, and Bévôpor, a tree. Fr., bai samodendron, balsamier, baumier. Ger., Balsambaum. Syn.: Balsa mod end rum [Kunth], Balsamea [Gleditsch]. The balm-tree, balsam-tree; a genus of burseraceous trees of the tribe Bursereæ, separated by Kunth from the genus Aniyris, from which it differs in having diclinous flowers with an urceolate, persistent calyx, equal, linear-oblong petals inserted with the stamens upon a glandular annular disc, and a bilocular ovary with a very short style. [B, 180.}—B. africanum [Arnott]. Syn.* Balsamea african a [Engl.], Heudelotia african a [Richard], Niotoutt [Adanson]. A species growing in Aby in i a, in the kingdom of Aden, and in Sene gambia. The resin-cells of the trunk secrete a gum-resin which constitutes the so-called African bdellium. [H. Baillon (B, 46).]—B. agalloch a (Wight and Arnott]. Syn.: Amyris commiphora. [Roxburgh] (et agalloch a fBaxbure! ]), Commiphora madagascar i ens is [Jacquin]. The goozul, or goozgula, of the Bengalese; a small tree growing in the Fast Indies, with a crooked trunk, drooping branches, small red flowers, and a red fruit of the size of a currant. It is very aromatic, and gives forth an agreeable perfume when broken. It yields the gum-resin called googul, constituting one variety of Indian bdelliam (q. v.). [B, 46, 172.)—B. Berryi [Arnott]. Pepe: Protium gileadense {Wight and Arnott], Amyris gileadensis [Roxburgh. fragrant tree growing in India, furnishing a gum-resin; ibly identical with B. myrrh a. [“ Pharm. Jour. and Trans.,” july 31, 1875, p. 83 (B); fd.. May 3, 1879, p. 893 (B); B, 212.J—B. ehrenbergianum. A species closely related to B. myrrh a, and regarded by Berg as the true source of myrrh. According to Oliver and Hildebrandt, however, it is identical with B. gileadense. [Trimen, “ Pharm, Jour. and Trans.,” May 3, 1879, is 893 (B); B. 250, 267.]—B. gileadense [Kunth]. ‘Gr, Bédoapov [Dioscorides], Bad~ vajov 8 öpor [Theophrastus]. Fr., balsamier de Giléad, baumier blanc, Ger., ächter (oder arabis cher) Balsambaum, Syn,: Amyris gileadensis |Linnæus], Balsamea meccanensis [Gleditsch]. The balsam-tree; a small tree, with glabrous, squarrose, spreading branches and trifoliate, sometimes quinquefoliate, leaves growing from very small, almost bud-like branchlets, and small white flowers disposed ‘at the ends of the branchlets, grow ain Arabia Felix and Arabia Petræa, from which Mecca balsam is obtained. The small, reddish, usually inodorons and tastele fruit (grana {seu fructus] balsam, carpobalsamum) was formerly official, together with the branches (xylobalsamum, lignum balsam itæ), which emit an agreeable odor when burned. [B, 5, 180.] Cf. Bors de baume.—B. kafal [Kunth]. Ger., Kataf-Balsambaum. Syn.: Amyris Kafal [Forskäl], See Bar- Balsamophlæos kataf [Berg]. An Arabian tree of somewhat doubtful botanical characters, which apparently much resembles the B. ilea dense. The bark and the fruit have purgative pac per ties and he aromatic gum-resin which exudes from the bark has been thought to be identical with the Arabian incense, and is perhaps the xdyxauov of Dioscorides and the sort of myrrh known in eastern Africa as habakhadi and in India as bisabol; used as an emmenaogue, excitant, and pectoral. [B, 46, 180, 270,|—B. Kotschyi Berg]. See B. africanum.—B. Mookul |Hooker], B. mukal Hooker], B. mukul [Hooker], A species growing in Scinde, considered by some a variety of B. agalloch a, from which, however, it differs in specific characters. It produces the mukul, or bdellium, of Scinde. [B, 46, 172]—B. myrrh a [Nees and Eberm.]. A specie growing in Africa and India, said to produce myrrh. Tis a small tree with scattered, pointed branches, scanty alternate, trifoliate leaves, and flowers disposed like those of B. africanum, It is closely related to B. Berryi, and _ is perhaps identical with it, The myrrh is secreted in the interior of the trunk, and oy exfoliation of the outer layers of the latter is brought to the surface, where it either exudes spontaneously, constituting the so-called liquid myrrh, or stacte, or is set free by incisions, [H. Trimen, “Pharm. Jour, and Trans.,” May 3, 1879, p. 803 (B); B, 5.]—B. opobalsamum [Kunth]. Syn.; Amyris opobalsamum [Forskäl]. A species now regarded as a variety of B. gileadense, from which it differs only in non-e ential characters. fe 46, 267.|B. Play fair i i [Hooker]. A shrub growing in the Nile lands of Africa. closely related to B. kataf, it not identical with it. It furnishes Hotai resin, a dark variety of bdellium, regarded as a sort of myrrh. [B, 250, 270.]—B. pubescens [Stocks]. An East Indian Goa the exudation from the bark of which constitutes the so-called Bayee balsam (q. v., under BALSAM). B, 212; “Pharm. Jour. and Trans.,” July 31, 1875, p. 83 (B).)—B. Roxburghll. 1. Of Arnott, see B. agalloch a.' 2. Of Stocks, see B. mukul.—BB. Sehimperi [Berg.]. See B. africanum.—B. Wightii [Arnott]. See B. mukul.—18. zeylanieum [Kunth]. Syn.: Amyris zeylunica [Retzius]. A Ceylon tree of doubtful botanical characters, said to furnish a variety of elemi. [B, 214.]