The generic name Bucida 



N. L. Britton 



The name Bacida was proposed by Linnaeus in 1759 (Syst. 

 ed. 10, 1025) for the Buceras of P. Browne (Civil and Nat. Hist. 



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221), published three years previously. Both names are 

 derived from the fancied resemblance of certain outgrowths from 



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Hypertrophied fruit of Bucida Buceras, one half the natural dimensions. 



e inflorescence of the tree to the horns of a bull, as expressed by 



rowne as follows : « On the flower-spikes of this tree you may 



s °metimes find one or more fructifications, that shoot into a 



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