BOSWELLIA TIIURIFERA. Coltb.
B. serrata, Slack. I C.odoriferum hirs.,Rumph.
Canarhnhirsutum, Kundur; Zuchir,Aa., GUT. Ganda Biroza, limn. Bistuj, . . . . Kuudurya, . SANSK. Luban, . Duxii., I'Ena. Lubanya, . . Svntac. Awul kundnr, . Hum. I Parangt Sambrani, TAM. Dup-salai, Salai lassa, Kunduru, . . . TEL.
Sukha Biroza, . A large tree with pinnate leaves, which grows on the hills of the Dekhan, in the Konkan jungles, above Rajoor, in the hill of Shendur, in the Bel ga= collectorate, in Bundelkhand, the mountain ous tracts of C. India, Chutia Nagpur, Ajmir hills, and very common in the Shahabad country. Dr. Hooker, in ascending from Belcuppi in Behar to the height of 1360 feet, came upon a small forest of it, conspicuous from its pale bark and spreading curved branches, leafy at their tip ; its general appearance being a good deal like that of the mountainash. The gum, celebrated throughout the east, was flowing abundantly from the trunk, very fragrant and transparent. Ganda biroza is prepared from the gum-resin of this tree, and is similar in appearance and qualities to Venice tur pentine. It is brought from 3Eewar, Haraoti, and the Shekhawatti hills, and is considered stimu lating. An oil is distilled from it said to cure gonorrIgea. It is much used in painting, and by the lakheri, one =mud coating twelve rupees from the Shahabad country. At Chandalgur
it is termed, in the dry state, sukha biroza.
glabra and B. thurifera both furnish the male frankincense of Dioscorides. The resin olibanum occurs in reddish or pale yellow tears, oval, oblong, and obtuse, sometimes in dense, opaque, brittle masses. The ganda biroza of the bazars is soft, ductile, opaque, greenish, and white. The odour is balsamic and resinous, espe cially while the resin is burning; the flavour balsamic, and rather bitter. The powder is citron yellow. It is frequently adulterated by &tinnier, sandarach, and other when chewed, the hard variety softens, and dissolves partially in saliva, which it renders white and emuLsive. Used for incense; also medicinally as a stimulant, astringent, and diaphoretic in affections of the chest, also in chronic affections of mucous mem branes, but chiefly in plasters, ointments, and for fumigation.Royle, p. 338 ; Hooker's Him. Tour. p. 29 ; Med. Top: of Ajmir ; O'Sh. Beng. Phan p. 383; Faulkner; Birdwood; 1?oxb. ii. 383; Powell, Handbook, i. p. 336 ; Cal. Cat. Ex. 1862 ; Mr. Rohde, MSS.
BOT, also written Bhot, the race occupying Tibet, Bhutan, Ladakh, and Balti. Their lan guage is the oldest of the Turanian formations. See Bhot ; Bhutan.