Indian frankincense, serrated boswellia, or gum-olibanum tree, Boswellia serrata. Native of India, source of boswellic acid, used as a perfume to fumigate sick rooms. Handcolored lithograph from a botanical illustration by George Spratt from William Woodville and Sir William Jackson Hooker's Medical Botany, London, 1832.

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