DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE. 903 
leathery, oblong and slightly acuminate, with entire margins and stipules which soon 
drop off; flowers axillary, about | inch in diameter, peduncles 1-flowered, calyx 
10 to 14-cleft, bell-shaped, without bracts, growing attached to the base of the ovary, 
lobes linear, acuminate, erect, about [8 mim, in length, equaling the tube in fruit; 
petals 10 to 14, oblong, 2-lobed, with 2 to 4 bristles on each lobe and 1 in the notch; 
stamens many, embraced by the petals and springing elastically from them when 
mature; ovary 3 or 4 celled; style filiform; stigma 2 to 4 lobed, minute, fruit top- 
shaped, leathery, crowned with the calyx limb; radicle spindle-shaped, with 
about 6 prominent angles, obtuse at the apex, perforating the apex of the fruit and 
germinating while the fruit still adheres to the tree, then descending from the tree 
into the mud. 
This species is common in Guam, growing in the swamps at the mouths of nearly 
all streams; especially abundant near Atantano and along the southern shores of the 
island. Its heartwood is very heavy, hard, and of a dark-red color, In India it is 
used for posts, piles, planks, and furniture. The sapwood is lighter and softer and 
reddish white. The astringent bark is used in India for tanning and in dyeing black. 
In Japan a reddish brown dye is obtained from it. 
This is the handsomest of all the mangroves and is widely spread on tropical shores 
of the Pacific and Indian oceans. In Japan it grows on the coasts of Satsuma. 
REFERENCES: 
Bruguiera gymnorhiza Lam. Bneye. Tableau 22517, 6.397, 1793. 
Bruja (Mexico). See Bryophyllum calyctnun. 
Bryophyllum pinnatum. WircH Lear,  LIFEPLANT. 
Family Crassulaceae. 
LocaL NAMES. —Siempre-viva (Spanish, Guam); Prodigiosa, Hoja de bruja (Cuba) ; 
Bruja (Mexico); Lifeplant (British W. Indies). 
A singular plant with simple or pinnate fleshy leaves which have the peculiarity 
of producing buds on their margins which send forth roots and sprouts and thus pro- 
duce new plants. Leaflets 3 to 5, ovate, with crenate margins. When the leaf is cut 
off or drops to the ground the buds form in the indentations between the crenations, 
and in a short time new plants appear all around the margin. The flowers are pen- 
dulous, growing in terminal compound panicles; calyx bladder-like when growing, 
at length oblong bell-shaped, 4-cleft; corolla tube somewhat 4-cornered, the lobes of 
its limb ovate or somewhat triangular; at the base of the carpels a number of gland- 
like, compressed scales; carpels on very short stalks. Flowers reddish or purplish 
green, spotted with white. 
The plant is supposed to be a native of the Moluccas, Madagasear, and Mauritius. 
It is now widely spread in the Tropics. In Guam it is common by the roadsides, 
especially along the road leading up the hill from San Antonio east of Agatia. 
The leaves, slightly scorched, are used as poultices for wounds and uleers. They are 
considered to be disinfectant. 
REFERENCES: 
Bryophyllum pinnatum (Lam.) 8. Kurtz, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. 407: 52. 1871 
(ex Ind. Kew. ). 
Sotyledon pinnata Lam. Eneye. 2: 141. 1786. 
Bryophyllum calycinum Salish. Parad. Lond. 6.3. 1805, 
Bryopsis plumosa. See under Algi. 
Bua (Pelew Islands). See Areca eathecu. 
Bubui (Tagilog). See Ceiha pentandra. 
Bubui gubat (Tagiilog). See Thespesia populnea, 
Buena vista (Guam, Philippines). 
A name sometimes applied to the ornamental, bright-coleced Phyllaurea variegata, 
Buenas tardes (Panama). See Mirabilis jalapa. 
