Crossword-Solution: BOSWELLIA 9 letters, 5 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 14

The trees which produce them grow sometimes wild, though occasionally they are cultivated; and the frankincense-tree grows sometimes taller than the tree producing the myrrh.” Modern authorities declare the frankincense-tree (_Boswellia thurifera_) to be still a native of Hadramaut;[968] and there is no doubt that the myrrh-tree (_Balsamodendron myrrha_) also grows there.

Descending to the village of Burshoot, we lost sight of the _Boswellia,_ and came upon a magnificent tope of mango, banyan, and peepul, so far superior to anything hitherto met with, that we were glad to choose such a pleasant halting-place for breakfast.

The summit was clothed with long grass, trees of _Diospyros_ and _Terminalia,_ and here and there the _Boswellia._ On the precipitous rocks the curious white-barked _Sterculia foetida_ "flung its arms abroad," leafless, and looking as if blasted by lightning.

The summit was clothed with long grass, trees of _Diospyros_ and _Terminalia,_ and here and there the _Boswellia._ On the precipitous rocks the curious white-barked _Sterculia fœtida_ “flung its arms abroad,” leafless, and looking as if blasted by lightning.

The marriage-shed is made of eleven poles festooned with leaves, and inside it are placed two posts of the _saleh_ (_Boswellia serrata_) or _umar_ (_Ficus glomerata_) tree, one longer than the other, to represent the bride and bridegroom.