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healing lacerated flesh, are related by Mr. Burcuett, in the 
same volume. Lastly, I may mention that the Bucku of 
our Pharmacopzias, which has lately obtained so much 
celebrity as a sudorific, diuretic, and tonic; such at least 
as I have examined from the Glasgow Apothecary’s Hall, 
undoubtedly belongs to the present species. Hence, though 
others of the Diosma groupe may contain similar properties, 
abounding as they all do in a strong aromatic odour, and 
glands filled with essential oil, yet by the Hottentots and 
those who gather Bucku for the European market, prefer- 
ence is given to our Barosma crenulata. The scent seems 
to me to be as powerful as that of any other of the tribe, 
but at the same time much more agreeable, and more re- 
sembling that of some Mints. Mr. Loppiess observes, that 
it is extremely difficult to propagate by cuttings, that seeds 
are never produced with us ; and that we are dependent for 
increase upon supplies which now and then reach us from 
its native country. The species is really a handsome one: 
the flowers which appear in early spring, continuing a long 
time in perfection, are purple in bud, of a delicate bluish 
colour when fully expanded. As in the Rue, the stamens 
are applied alternately to the stigma where the pollen is 
discharged. } 
Descr. The plant from which our description and figure 
are taken, is an upright shrub, between two and three feet 
In height, with twiggy branches of a brownish-purple tinge. 
Leaves decussate, spreading, about an inch long, oval-lan- 
ceolate, on very short petioles, very obtuse, delicately and 
minutely crenated, quite glabrous, rigid, darkish-green, and 
quite smooth above, with a few very obscure oblique nerves, 
beneath paler, dotted with glands which are scarcely pellu- 
cid, while at every crenature is a conspicuous pellucid gland ; 
there is also a narrow, pellucid’margin round the whole leaf. 
Peduncles about as long as the leaf, axillary and terminal, 
chiefly from the superior leaves, single-flowered, often (but 
not always) bearing a pair of small opposite leaves, or 
bracteas, above the middle, each of which in my native spe- 
cimens sometimes bears a flower in its axil. Beneath the 
calyx are two or three pairs of small imbricated bracteas. 
Calyx 
=___. 
Hon being very satisfactory. This Bookoe, or Bucku-azyn, is made by 
Simply putting the leaves of Diosma serratifolia, or some other species of 
the Same Genus, into a bottle of cold vinegar, and leaving them to steep ; 
© Vinegar being esteemed in proportion to the time during which the in- 
uSion has been made, and sometimes turning to a mucilage. 
