O-Ijvs HOttTUS JA5.IAICENSIS. 2t 



Browne calls this buceras, from the termination of the spikes resembling a bull's 

 horn. Linneus changed it to bucida. 



Gen. char. Calyx a one-leafed perianth, bell-form, obscure! v five- toothed, supe- 

 rior, permanent; no corolla; stamens \z\\ capillary filaments, inserted into the 

 base of the calyx, and longer than it ; anthers cordate, erect; the pistil has i i 

 inferior ovate germ ; a filiform style, the length of the stamens; stigma obtus< ; 

 the pericarp is a dry berry, ovate, one-celled, crowned with tne calvxj see&one 

 ovato. There u only one species,, a native of Jamaica. 



BUCEUAS. BULL-HORNED. 



Mangle julifera foliis subrotundis versus, summit ' i'es laliss'm's, con- 

 j'trtim vascentibus, cortice ad coria densanda u/ili. Sloane, v. _>, 

 p. 67, t. 189, f. 3. Ramulis fiexuosis tenuioribus, jeliis ebovatis 

 eonfertts, ipicis phirimis ttrnnmulibus. Browne, p. L!^l, t. ?3, f. 1. 



This tree grows to a very considerable height, but not of a proportionate thickness, 

 some having been seen seventy feet high, anil rive in circumference lour feet from the 

 ground. The branches and twigs are divaricate or flexuose, roundish, smooth, an 1 

 even. The leaves are crowded at the forkings of the twigs ; they are tw > inrhes long 

 and one broad, near the further end, where broadest, on inch-long petioles, ob-ovate, 

 fpiite entire, nerved, veined, smooth, and. the younger ones are hoary underneath, 

 Flowers in spikes, from the axils of the crowded leaves, simple, longer than the leaves, 

 ^preading, many -flowered ; peduncles round, long, hoary ; flowers yellowish. Calyx 

 hoary, without tomentose within ; filaments twice as long as the calyx ; anthers round- 

 ish, yellow ; germ flatted, with ten streaks at the base ; style subulate, hirsute at the 

 base. . 



This tree is called the black olive ig Jamaica ; but in Antigua, where it is equally 

 common, goes bv the name of French oak. It is a native of the lower swampy lands, 

 or adjoining banks, and grows to a very considerable size. It is frequent about the 

 Ferry, and remarkable for its slender crooked branches, and the tufted disposition of 

 its leaves. On the flo-ver spikes of this tree you may sometimes find one or more fruc- 

 tifications that shoot into a monstrous size, being seldom under three inches in length^ 

 though never above a line and a half in diameter; and something in the form of a bull's 

 horn. It is reckoned an excellent timber tree ; and the bark is greatly esteemed among 

 the tanners. Browne. 



Barham mixed the bark of this tree with that of the mangrove, and savs he made an 

 excellent restringent styptic water of it. In the French islands it is called grigrwn. 



OLIVE MANGROVE. AVICENNIA. 



CL. 14, or. 2. Did-yna.jn.in angiospermia. NaT. or. Personata* 

 This was so named in honour of a famous oriental physician. 



Gen. char. Calyx a five-parted permanent perianth ; leaflets sub-ovate, obtuse, 

 concave, erect; increased by three scales; corolla moi petalous; tube bell- 

 6uaped, short ; border bilabiate ; upper lip square, emarginate, flat; to.ver trifid, 



divisions. 



