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BRYOPHYLLUM CALYCINUM, Salisb. 



Leaf oe Life. 

 Native of Asia. A succulent herb, leaves producing new plants from 

 the indentations; flowers reddish yellow. (Crassulacece.) 

 Leaves applied to contused wounds, boils, ulcers, &c. 



BUCIDA BUCERAS, Linn. 



Wild Olive, Olive Bark Tree. 



Native of W. Indies and Panama. A tree, 20 to 30 feet high ; 

 leaves rounded, at the end of branches ; flowers without petals ; berry 

 small, J inch, crowned with the persistent calyx. (Combretacece.) 



Wood : used by cabinet-makers. 



Bark: used "in tanning of sole-leather." (Sloane.) 



BUCIDA CAPITATA, Vahl. 



Yellow Sanders, Wild Olive, Negresse. 



Native of Jamaica, Cuba, Guiana, and Brazil. A tree, 30 to 60 feet 

 high ; leaves roundish, crowded at ends of twigs ; flowers without 

 petals ; fruit of size and shape of olive. 



Woor : " chiefly found to perfection in the interior where it grows 

 straight and 3 or 4 feet in diameter. It saws freely and makes a 

 beautiful board, taking a high polish. The wood is of a light yellow 

 colour with satin graining, and is highly prized in cabinet work, where 

 it sets off dark woods.'' (Harrison.) 



" Chiefly in the interior of the central districts. A large tree with 

 diameter up to three feet, largely used in cabinet work on account of 

 its light colour and satiny grain." (Hooper.) 



Bark " has an aromatic astringent and bitter taste, and a decoction 

 of it, we are informed, has been employed as a remedy for the com- 

 plicated diseases, resembling constitutional syphilis, to which the 

 African race is subject." (Macfadyen.) 



BUCIDA SP. 



Grey Mountain Sanders. 



Native of Jamaica. 



Wood. " This is a very good timber, saws readily, makes a fine 

 board, darker in colour than the yellow sanders and not so satin-like 

 in appearance, but takes fine polish, grows to about three feet in 

 diameter." (Harrison.) 



BULLET TREE. See Dipholis Montana. 

 BULLET TREE, MAHOGANY. See Sapota sideroxyton 

 BULLY TREE. See Dipholis Montana. 



BURSERA GUMMIFERA, Linn. 



West Indian Birch. 

 Native of W Indies, Bahamas, and tropical America. A high tree ; 

 eaves pinnate, flowers very small, appearing before the leaves. 



