1900 SUPPLEMENT—RECENT INTRODUCTIONS, 
ce. 119 
Bactris—continued. 
long, while in trichospatha it is short or nearly wanting” 
(‘ Journal of Botany,” xv., p. 42). Brazil. 
B. Gasipaés (native name). A synonym of Gulielma speciosa. 
B. simplicifrons (entire-leaved). //l., spadix simple, lin. to 2in. 
long, nodding ; inner spathe as long as the spadix, glabrescent. 
1. bitid, the two divisions oblong, entire, curved, acute, 10in. to 
12in. long, 24in. to 3in. broad, broadly adnate at the flat base, 
diverging in an acute angle. Trunk 3ft. to 6ft. high. West 
qanies, c. Plant devoid of prickles except at the tips of the 
eaves. 
B. trichospatha (hairy-spathed). l., outer spathe pubescent, 
inner one almost woody ; spadix 8in. to 14in. lon&. fr. blackish- 
violet, globose, sin. in diameter. J. 4ft. to 7ft. long, interrupt- 
edly pinnate ; leaflets all on the same plane, lanceolate, slightly 
falcate, long-acuminate, pale beneath. Caudex dwarf, unarmed 
or prickly. Brazil. 
BACULARIA. Syn. Linospadix. Flowers green, 
moncecious on the same spadix ; spadices numerous, very 
slender, simple, longer than the leaves; spathes two, 
remote. Fruit green, jin. to tin. long. Leaves terminal, 
unequally pinnatisect; segments cnt or toothed at apex. 
To the species described on p. 153, Vol. I., the follow- 
ing should be added: 
B. Micholitziana (Micholitz’). 7. oblong; leaflets remote, 
linear-oblong, acute, paler on the under-surface. Caudex and 
rachis furnished with scattered spines, which are thickened at 
the base. New Guinea, 1898. A very elegant Palm ina young 
state. Syn. Ceratolobus Micholitziana (G. C. 1898, xxiii., 
p. 251; R. H. 1898, p. 263). 
B. Petrickiana (Petrick’s). A very elegant, pinnate-leaved 
species, as yet very rare in cultivation. New Guinea, 1898. Syn. 
Linospadix Petrickiana (G. C. 1898, xxiv., p. 299, f. 87). 
BADAMIA. Included under Terminalia (which 
see). 5 
BZA. About seven species are ineluded in this 
genus; they are found in Eastern Asia, the Malayan 
Archipelago, Australia, and the Seychelles. Flowers 
blue, on axillary peduncles or elongated, leafless scapes ; 
calyx five-parted or deeply five-cleft; corolla tube short, 
the limb somewhat bilabiate; perfect stamens two. 
Leaves radical, or those on the stems short and opposite, 
ovate or oblique. 
BZHCKEA. Bentham and Hooker include Babing- 
tonia (which see) under this genus; it embraces nearly 
fifty species, mostly Australian, a few being found in the 
Indian Archipelago and in New Caledonia. 
BAEL-TREE. See Zgle Marmelos. 
BHOBOTRYS. A synonym of Mesa (which see). 
BHOMETRA (from baios, small, and metron, size, in 
allusion to the size of the plant). Syns. Jania, Kolbea. 
Orv. Liliacez. A monotypic genus. The species is a 
greenhouse, bulbous plant, thriving in a compost of sandy 
loam and peat, and increased by seeds or by division. 
B. columellaris (Columella-like). /. one or few in a simple 
raceme, shortly pedicellate; perianth red outside, yellow 
within, with a black spot at the base of the blade. June. 
1. several, dry, persistent, firm, the lower ones 6in. to Yin. long, 
stem-clasping, the upper ones gradually smaller. Stems simple, 
6in. to 12in. high. South Africa, 1787. Syn. Melanthium 
uniflorum (B. M. 767). 
BRIA. Syn. Burrielia (in part). The species are 
all Californian. Flower-heads yellow, heterogamous, 
radiate, at the tips of the branches or long-pedunculate or 
axillary ; involucral bracts in one or two series ; receptacle 
conical. Leaves opposite, linear, entire, pinnatifid or 
pinnately cut. To the species described on p. 153, Vol. L., 
the following should be added: 
B. gracilis (slender). /l.-heads solitary, having ten to twelve 
rays and involucral bracts, or when depauperated five or six, the 
former nearly 4in. long. Summer. J. linear, entire. h. 6ft. to 
10ft. 1887. A hardy annual, branching from the base. (R. G. 
1887, p. 392.) SYN. Burrielia gracilis (B. M. 3758). 
BAHIA. Syn. Trichophyllum. Including Priophyl- 
lum. There are abouta score species of greenhouse or hardy 
under-shrubs in this genus, all American. Flower-heads 
yellow, heterogamous, radiate; involucre flat, naked or 
foveolate. Leaves opposite or alternate, dissected or lobed, 
“see). 
Bahia—continued. 
or the upper ones entire. To the species described on 
p. 154, Vol. I., the following should be added: 
B. confertiflora (cluster-flowered). /l.-heads disposed in small’ 
dense, corymbose cymes; ray florets four or five. 7. small» 
mostly of cuneate outline, pinnately or somewhat ternately once 
or twice three- to seven-parted into narrow-linear divisions. Stems 
naked at summit. A. lft. to 2ft. North America, 1888. An 
ornamental, white-woolly, hardy under-shrub, (R. G, 1888, 
p. 329, t. 1275, f. i.) Syn. Hriophyllum confertijflorum. 
BAKED. This term is applied to soil which has 
become set or hardened on the surface by the action of 
sun and wet. The condition is very noticeable where 
the soil is clayey or a mixture of clay and sand. Soil 
should be prevented from baking in a garden by the 
frequent use of the Dutch hoe in dry weather. Farm- 
yard manure will also act mechanically on the soil; 
while road-scrapings, ashes, or any other material that 
will lighten the soil and render it more friable, are 
beneficial. 
BAKERIA (named in honour of John Gilbert Baker, 
F.R.S., F.L.S., an eminent botanist, author of the “ Hand- 
book of the Bromeliacex,” and numerous other works). ORD. 
Bromeliacex. A monotypic genus. The species is a stove 
or warm greenhouse, stemless plant, requiring similar 
culture to Tillandsia (which see). 
B. tillandsioides (Tillandsia-like). /.' rosy-purple, about 4in. 
in diameter, rather pretty ; petals much longer than the sepals ; 
inflorescence a loose panicle, lft. long, with ascending or spreading, 
racemose branches; peduncle slender, about as long as the 
leaves. September. J. densely rosulate, spreading, ensiform, 
acuminate, 6in. to 8in. long, sin. broad. Probably Brazil. (R. H. 
1889, p. 84.) 
BAKERIA (of Seemann). 
dra (which see). 
BALAKA (probably a native name). Orn. Palme. 
A small genus of stove Palms. B. perbrevis and B. See- 
manni, both natives of Fiji, are included in the Kew 
Collection, but they are not in general cultivation. 
BALANOPHOREZ. A natural order embracing 
about thirty-five species (in fourteen genera) of fleshy, 
parasitic herbs, of botanical interest, allied to the Zuphor- 
biacex. : 
Included under Pleran- 
BALANOPSEZ. A small natural order (six or 
seven species, in one genus) of New Caledonian trees or 
shrubs, of botanical interest, allied to the Urticacex. 
BALANOPTERIS. A 
(which see). 
BALANTIUM (of Kaulfuss). 
sonia (which see). 
BALBISIA. Syn. COrwikshanksia (of Hooker): 
According to the “Index Kewensis,” this genus includes 
three species; they are of stove under-shrubs, natives of 
Chiliand Peru. Flowers yellow, showy, terminal, solitary, 
regular ; sepals five, imbricated; petals five, hypogynous, 
twisted; stamens ten, free. Leaves opposite or alternate, 
often three-parted, without stipules. 
BALBISIA (of Willdenow). A synonym of Tridax 
(which see). 
BALFOURIA. A synonym of Wrightia (which 
synonym of Heritieria 
Included under Dick- 
BALLOTA (Ballote is the Greek name of our native 
B. nigra [Black Horehound], and is said to be derived 
from ballo, to emit; in allusion to its rejection by cattle 
on account of its disagreeable smell). Orb. Labiate. A 
genus embracing about twenty-five species of greenhouse 
or hardy, perennial herbs, or under-shrubs, mostly found 
in the Mediterranean region; one is broadly dispersed over 
Europe and Western Asia, and one is South African. 
The species are of no horticultural value. B. suaveolens 
is now classed under Hyptis (which see). 
