AN ENCYCLOPADIA 
OF HORTICULTURE. 915 
BROWNEA (named after Patrick Browne, M.D., 
- author of a History of Jamaica). ORD. Leguminose. 
Very handsome stove evergreen trees or shrubs, allied to 
Amherstia. Flowers of a rose-scarlet colour, rising in 
fascicled heads from the axillary buds. Leaves abruptly- 
pinnate, when young flaccid, and with the leaflets revolute 
at the edges; leaf-bud long and stipulaceous. All the 
species are well worthy of the most extensive cultivation. 
A mixture of loam, peat, and sand, is a soil well adapted 
for them, and great care should be taken not to over-water 
the plants in winter, as too great a supply will be sure to 
kill them. Propagated by cuttings, taken from ripened 
wood, planted in a pot of sand, and placed under a hand 
glass, in a moist heat, 
B. Ariza (Ariza).* /l. richest scarlet, produced in a large, globular, 
drooping head of immense size. Summer. Z. pinnate, usually 
with six or eight pairs of pinnæ, which are oblong-lanceolate, and 
sharply tapered to a point. A. 20ft. to 40ft. Columbia, 1843. 
This noble tree requires a large house to fully perfect its beauty. 
Syn. B. princeps. (B. M. 6459.) 
B. Birschellii (Birschell’s). Jl. rose-coloured, in drooping racemes, 
April to July. l. pinnate ; leaflets oblanceolate, 6in. long. h. 10ft. 
to 20ft. La Guayra, 1872. (B. M. 5998.) 
B. coccinea (scarlet).* fl. scarlet, fascicled. July to August. 
l. with two to three pairs of oval-oblong, acuminated leaflets. 
h. 6ft. to 10ft. Venezuela, 1793. (B. M. 3964.) 
B. grandiceps Saree pended)” Jl. red, in dense capitate spikes. 
July. l. with usually twelve pairs of oblong-lanceolate glandless 
leaflets, ending in a long cuspidate acumen; branches and pe- 
tioles pubescent. h. (in its native home) 60ft. Caraccas, 1829. 
(B. M. 4859.) 
B. latifolia (broad-leaved). fl. red, in dense fascicles; invo- 
lucre tomentose. 1. with one to three pairs of ovate or obovate- 
cuspidate leaflets. h. 6ft. to 8ft. Caraccas, 1824. 
B. macrophylla (large-leaved).* fl. orange-scarlet, in dense 
heads, often measuring nearly 3ft. in circumference. Central 
America, 1879. (G. C. 1873, p. 779.) 
B. princeps (chief). A synonym of B. Ariza. 
B. racemosa (clustered).* jl. rose-coloured, racemose; inyo- 
lucre and calyx clothed with fine tomentum. J. with four pairs 
of unequal-sided, oblong, or oblong-lanceolate, cuspidately-acu- 
à minated leaflets, which are glanduliferous at the base. h. 4ft. 
Caraccas, 1826. 
= B. Rosa del Monte. f. scarlet, in dense heads; leaflets 
of the involucre roundish, imbricated, and, when in a young 
state, rather reve, i 
June. l. with two to three pair of oval- 
Farr acuminated leaflets; branches pen petioles glabrous. 
South America, 1820. (B. R. 1472. 
BROWNLOWIA (named in honour of Lady Brown- 
low, daughter of Sir Abraham Hume, and a great patroness 
of botany). ORD. Filiaceew. Very handsome greenhouse 
evergreen trees, thriving well in a mixture of loam and 
peat. Cuttings of ripe shoots will root if placed in sand, 
under a hand glass, in heat. 
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India, 1823. (B. R. 1472.) 
BRUCEA (commemorative of James Bruce, the cele- 
brated African traveller), ORD. Simarubee. Ornamental 
stove evergreen shrubs. Flowers small, purplish inside, 
disposed in interrupted glomerate spikes, or racemes. 
Leaves impari-pinnate, with six pairs of opposite, entire 
or serrated leaflets, without dots. Branches, peduncles, 
petioles, and nerves of leaves, clothed with rufescent down. 
They thrive in a loamy soil; and cuttings from ripened 
wood strike freely, in a pot of sand, under a hand glass, 
un a moderate heat. : 
Be idysenteric). fl., racemes simple, spike- 
ee azaemterica (antidyse ra 
e. y. leaflets quite entire, clothed with rusty villi on 
the nerves beneath. A. Sit. Abyssinia, 1775. 
E. (Sumatra).* . dark purple; racemes usually 
compound, 3 i beneath. h. 20ft. 
Sumai. May. l., leaflets serrated, villous benea 
BRUCHUS GRANARIUS. See Bean Beetle. 
BRUCHUS PISI. See Pea Weevil. 
BRUGMANSIA. See Datura. 
' BRUNPELSIA (named after Otto Brunfels, of Mentz, 
rst a Carthusian monk, and afterwards a physician ; he 
published the first good figures of plants in 1530). SYN. 
Franciscea. ORD. Scrophularinee. Elegant free-flowering 
Brunfelsia—continued. 
stove evergreens. Flowers sweet-scented; corolla large, 
fu.nel or salver-shaped, with a long tube, and a flat, five- 
lobed, obtuse, nearly equal limb. A light rich soil, or a 
compost of loam, leaf soil, and peat, is necessary to grow 
these plants successfully. Propagated by cuttings, planted 
in sand, and placed under bell glasses, in a moderate heat. 
When rooted, they should be placed in small pots, in a com- 
post somewhat more sandy than that already mentioned. 
While growing, they require to be kept in a moist stove 
temperature, and should be hardened by placing them in 
a drier, and somewhat cooler, temperature after each 
growth is completed; the pots should be changed as often 
as the roots become thick around the ball of earth. The 
larger plants flower freely, and should be slightly pruned 
in annually, before commencing their new growth, thus 
securing neat and compact specimens. Repotting should 
be effected directly they have done flowering. The plants 
should then be placed in a temperature ranging from 
60deg. to 68deg., and both the roots and foliage liberally 
supplied with water. When flowers appear—about October 
or November—the syringing must be less frequently per- 
formed. At this period, if it be desirable to prolong the 
flowering season, the plants should be removed to a tem- 
perature of about 48deg. A few administrations of weak 
liquid manure during the growing season are of great value. 
B. acuminata (taper-pointed-leaved).* fl. bluish-violet, few, sub- 
cymose, terminal. April. J. oblong, acuminated, attenuated a 
little at the base, glabrous; bracts lanceolate, acuminated, 
glabrous. h. lft. to 2ft. Rio Janeiro, 1840. (B. M. 4189.) 
B. americana (American).* fl. first yellow, then white, very sweet- 
scented ; axillary flowers solitary, terminal ones numerous. June. 
l. obovate, elliptic, acuminated, longer than the petioles. A. 4ft. 
to 6ft. West Indies, 1735. There are narrow and broad-leaved 
varieties of this species. (B. M. 393.) 
Fic. 284, FLOWER OF BRUNIA NODIFLORA, . 
calycina a * urple, disposed in large trusses, 
gt are (oup shape) eras hout the whole year. 
l. large, lanceolate, shining light green. A. 2ft. Brazil, 1850. One 
of the largest-flowered species grown. (B. M. 4583.) i 
wered). ji. soft blue, cymosely irp 
B. confertiflora (dense-flo i 
terminal. January to June. l. nearly sessile, oblong 
