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Gum brown-oolouicd, a small proportion soluble in water. 



Wood, hard and serviceable, but small size. 



Buds, "dried, used as a remedy for piles and dysentery. They are 

 considered by the natives (of India) as cool and astringent, and are 

 useful in diarrhoea and worms." (Baden Powell.) 



11 Flowers given with sugar, as a gentle laxative ; and the bark, 

 flowers, or root, triturated in rice-water, as a cataplasm to promote 

 suppuration." (Watt.) 



BAYBERRY. See Pimenta acris 



HE AN. See Phaseolus. 



BETEL PALM. See Areca Catechu. 



BILLMBI TREE. See Averrhoa Bilimbi. 



BIRCH. WEST INDIAN. See Bursbra gummifer*. 



BISSY. See Cola acuminata. 



B1TTEK ASH. See Picrjsna excelsa. 



BITTER BUSH. See Eupatorium nervosum. 



BITTER DAN. S imaruba glauca. 



BITTER WOOD. See Pick.ena excelsa, & Simaruba glauca. 



B1XA ORELLANA, Linn. 

 Annatto. 



Native of W Indies and Tropical America. A low tree, 10 feet 

 high, with large rosy-coloured flowers : seed-vessels spiny, and seeds 

 covered with a coloured pulp. (Bixi)icce.) 



Seeds are exported f rora Jamaica in large quantities, and the colour- 

 ing matter (annatto) removed in Englun I. In Cayenne, and Guade- 

 loupe, the annatto is made up into cakes for export. Mr. J. J. Bowrey, 

 Island Chemist in Jamaica, has invented a method of obtaining a 

 superior kind of Annatto in powder. See Bulletin VII., 4. In Europe, 

 this colouring matter is used for cheese, butter, soaps, &c. 



Seeds in medicine, are cordial, astringent, and febrifuge. 



Bark yield a fibre. 



Wood soft ; the friction of two pieces is used to produce fire. 



BLACKBERRY. See Rubus alpinus and R. jamaicknsis. 



BLOOD WOOD. See Laplacea Hjematoxylon. 



BLUE GUM. See Eucalyptus Globulus.. 



BOCAGEA LAURIFOLIA, B. & H. 



White Lancewood. 

 Native of Jamaica, Cuba, Porto Rico. A tree of moderate height 

 with small white flowers, and leaves pointed at both ends. (Anonacece.) 



