COMBRETACE^. I. Bucida. II. Agathisanthes. III. Terminalia. 



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cylindrically oblong. — West India trees, with scattered leaves, termixed with spikes of flowers). Lin. mant. 21. Jacq. coll. 

 crowded at the tops of the branches. Peduncles axillary. 1. p. 130. D. C. prod. 2. p. lO.^Catappa, Myrobalanus, 



and Badamia, Gaertn. — Terminklia, Pamia, Tanibouca, and 

 1 B. Bu cERAs (Lin. spec. 556.) leaves ovate-cuneiform, ob- Fatrse^a, Juss. 



Flowers disposed in spikes or heads. 



fuse, glabrous ; flowers disposed in cylindrical spikes, densely 

 clothed with adpressed silky pubescence. ^ . S. Native of the 

 West Indies, in low swannpy clayey lands near the coast. Flowers 

 small, yellowish. Sloane, hist. 2. t. 189. f. 3. Browne, jam. t. 

 23. f. 1. Lam. ill. t. 356, The ends of the branches some- 

 times shoot out into a monstrous spongy excrescence, like an 

 ox's horn, probably formed by insects ; hence the specific name. 

 Browne says this tree is remarkable for its slender crooked 



LiN. SYST. Polygamm^ Moncecia. Flowers ustially poly- 

 gamous from abortion. Limb of calyx campanulate (f. 88. c^ e.), 

 deciduous, 5-cleft ; lobes acute. Petals wanting. Stamens 10, 

 inserted by 2 series, longer than the calyx. Ovary biovu- 

 late (f. 88. a.). Style filiform, acutish (f. 88. c?.). Drupe not 

 crowned by the calyx, usually dry, indehiscent, 1 -seeded. 

 Seed amygdalaceous. Cotyledons spirally convolute (f 88. 6.). 



Tropical trees and shrubs, with alternate leaves, usually 



branches, and the tufted disposition of the leaves, that it grows crowded at the tops of the branches. Flowers disposed in spikes; 



to a considerable size, is reckoned an excellent timber tree, and 

 that the bark is greatly esteemed by tanners. In Jamaica it is 



spikes racemose or panicled ; the flowers in the lower part of 



the spikes hermaphrodite, in the upper part male. This genus 



z^hA. Black olivey in Antigua French oaky and in the French is divisible by the fruit, but that in most of the species being 



Islands Grignon, unknown, the greater part of them remain in uncertain divi- 



Oor-Aorn Olive-bark-tree. Fl. Aug. Sept. Clt. 1793. Tr. sions. Those species with a 4-cleft calyx -and 8 stamens 

 20 to 30 feet. 



2 B. ANGusTiFOLiA (D. C. prod. 2. p. 10.) leaves cuneiform, 

 obtuse, glabrous ; flowers disposed in cylindrical spikes, clothed 

 with rufous velvety down. T? . S. Native of Guiana. This 

 species comes very near to Bucida hiiceras^ but the leaves are 



ought probably to, be excluded from the genus. 



Sect. I. Cata'ppa (the Molucca name of T* Catappa). 

 Gsertn. fruct. 2. p. 20G. t. 127. and 3. p. 207. t. 217.— Termi- 

 nalia, Lam. ill. t. 848. Drupe compressed, winged at the mar- 



not half so broad, and on shorter petioles, and the spikes are gins (f. 87. aO» o^ i^^^'l^ a'^t^""^t^^> ^^"^^^"^"g^ ^^^^y P"^''^"^^"- 



more numerous from the same knot, and the stamens are more j x. Tanibouca (Smith, in Rees' cycl. vol. 35. no. 11.) leaves 



exserted. . - . . . . 



Narrorv-lcaved Olive-bark-tree. Tree 20 feet. 



3 B. capita'ta (Vahl. eel. 1. p. 50. t. 8.) leaves cuneiform, ^ _ ^^ ^_ 



bluntish, with villously ciliated margins ; flowers disposed in hoU. i. p. 35I. Tanibouca G 



subglobose capitate spikes. 

 Porto Rico 



in Lun. 

 f.3. 



^2 . S. Native of Mont Serrat, 



Hudsonia, Robins 



elliptic, acuminated at both ends, quite entire, when young rather 

 pubescent, when adult smooth ; petioles glandless. ^2 • S- ^^' 

 tive of French Guiana. Lam. ill, 848. f. 3. R. Br. prod. nov. 



Aubl. guian. 1. t. 178. 



Tani- 



St. Domingo, and Jamaica, 

 hort. jam. 2. p. 310. and Sloan, hist. 2. p. 176. t. 2£8. 

 Flowers yellowish. Bracteas villous. Calyxes glabrous. 

 Captofe-flowered Olive-bark-tree. Tree 20 to 30 feet. 



Catappa Guianensis, Ga?rtn. fruct. 3. p. 207. t. 217. 

 houca is the Guiana name of the tree. 



Tanibouca Terminalia. Tree 25 feet. 



3. t. 



177.) 



ra- 



4 B. Megapota'mica (Spreng. syst. append, p 

 cemes subcorymbose ; bracteas silky; calyxes woolly; leaves 

 oblong-lanceolate, obtuse, rather mucronate. \ . S. Native 

 <>f Brazil, at the Rio Grande. 



Rio Grande Olive-bark -tree. Tree. 



Cw/^ The species of Bucida grow best in a mixture of loam 

 ^r*d peat, and cuttings of well-ripened wood strike freely, if 



planted in a pot of sand, with a hand-glass placed over them, 



in heat. 



n. AGATHISANTHES (from ayaOic, agathis, a round 

 ^^ad, and avQoc, anthos, a flower; in reference to the flowers 

 jemg disposed - - - — 



^' C. prod. 3. 



2 T. ANGUSTIFOLIA 



(Jacq. hort. vind. 

 1 00.) leaves linear-lance- 

 olate, rather repand, at- 

 tenuated at both ends, 

 pubescent beneath and on 

 the petioles, or pilose ; ' 

 petiole furnished with 2 

 glands at the 

 h. S. 



FIG. 87. 



apex. 

 Native of the 



^^^g disposed in pedunculate heads), Blum, bijdr. p. 645, 

 AiiN. sYST. Dioecia, Decdndria. Flowers dioecious, apeta- 



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H>U8. Calyx of the male flowers 5-parted, with the lobes con- 

 niving imbricately. Stamens usually 10 ; filaments very short, 

 jnserted in a flat disk ; anthers didymous. Calyx of the female 

 "owers with a short 5-toothed limb. Style short, bifid, perfo- 

 rating the flat disk. Ovary 1 -ovulate. Drupe baccate, umbi- 

 Jl^'ate, containing a 1-seeded compressed nut. Embryo exal- 

 ^l^'nous, inverted.— A. tree 120 feet high, with crowded, oblong, 

 ^"Ue entire, coriaceous leaves ; and axillary and lateral, solitary 

 ^ twin stalked heads of flowers. This genus is intermediate 

 ^tween Bucida and Ceratostachys. 



1 A. Java'nica (Blum. I.e.). ^2 • S. Native of Java, in 

 ^'oods on the. higher mountains on the west side of the island, 

 *^^re it is called by the natives Hirung. 



'^^va Agathisanthes. Tree 120 feet. 



Cull, See Bucida for culture and propagation. 



^^n. TERMINALIA (from terminus, end; so named from 

 ^"e leaves being in bunches at the ends of the branches, m- 



VOL. II. • * 



East Indies. CrotonBen- 

 zoe, Lin. mant. 297. T. 

 Benzoin, Lin. fil. suppl. 



Lam. diet. 1. p. 349. 

 Catappa Benzoin, Gaertn. fr. 2. p. 206. t. 127. T. Benzoe, 

 Pers. Branches in whorles. This tree produces one kind of 

 benzoin ; it is procured by wounding the tree ; it is composed of 

 large white and light brown pieces, breaking very easily between 

 the hands. When gently dried it forms a white powder, for- 



merly in great request as a cosmetic. Its scent is one of the most 

 agreeable. But the most striking ingredient of this resin is the 



benzoic acid. 



Narrow-leaved Terminalia, Clt. 1GJ)2. Tree 30 to 40 feet. 



3 T. ve'rnix (Lam. diet. 1. p. 350.) leaves linear-lanceolate, 

 tapering to both ends, glabrous as well as the branches and pe- 

 tioles. \ . S. Native of the Moluccas. A'bor vernicis, Rumph. 

 amb. 2. p. 259. t. 86. Perhaps the petiole is furnished with 2 

 glands. The juice of the tree is employed in the countries of 

 its natural growth as a varnish. 



Varnish Terminalia. Tree 15 feet. 



4 T. Mauritia^na (Lam. diet. 1. p. 349. ill. t. 848. f. 2.) 

 leaves oblong-lanceolate, attenuated at both ends, rather repand, 

 glabrous ; petiole furnished with 2 glands at the top. ^2 . S. 

 Native of the Mauritius and Bourbon, where a resin is collected 



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