BOTER- — BREAD- 15 



Boter 'boom. Cotyledon paniculata. A deciduous succulent of 

 the Little Karoo and similar tracts. Stem stout and 

 fleshy. Leafless in summer. In Damaraland several 

 species of Cissus with similar trunks are so designated, 

 (v. Ko'bas). 



Bottle^brush (Na), Greyia Sutherlandii v. Baakhout. 



Bout-Kouterie, Gasteria acinacifolia. Zwartkops, etc. 



Box, Cape — , Buxus MacOwani {East Lond.). A good wood 



for engravers. 

 „ , False Cape — == Kamassi. 



Box Wattle, Notohuxus natalensis, nearly allied to the real 

 box. 



Braam 'bos (Braamen), v. Blackberry. 



Bracken, Pteridiiim aquilinum. Cosmopolitan. 



Brak 'bos (Salt-bush). Several species of Atriplex are useful 

 food-plants for stock. A. Halimus is the common indigenous 

 salt-bush, frequent along the banks of rivers and on 

 brackish ground of the drier districts, v. Saltbush. 



„ 'ganna, v. Ganna. 



„ 'slaai, Meserribrianthemum crystalUnum (Ice plant) and 

 a few other species. Good stock-food when young. 



Bramakanka = Kukumakranka. 



Bramble (Braamboos), Ruhus pinnatus. 



Brand 'blaren, Knowltonia vesicatoria. Leaves employed as a 

 vesicant. 



„ 'boontje, Mucuna coriacea. Tropical. Pods clothed with 

 sharp-pointed stinging hairs. 



5, 'bossie, Mohria caffrorum. Not a shrub' but a small 

 deciduous fern of the South West; the leaves appear in 

 great numbers after a bush fire when the shrubby vegeta- 

 tion, otherwise overshadowing these plants, has been 

 destroyed. One of the few ferns with an aromatic foliage. 



„ 'ielie, Cyrtanthus angustifolius. In many localities not 

 flowering unless the ground has been cleared by a veld fire, 

 e.g., on Table Mountain near the reservoirs. 



„ 'netel (pron: Branneukel), Urtica urens* 



Brandewijn 'bos = Rozijntje bos. 



Bread and Cheese. Malva parviflora* etc. 



