468 FOREST CULTURE AND 
Butea frondosa, Roxburgh.—The Dhak or Pulas of 
India. This magnificent tree extends to the Hima- 
layan mountains, and therefore might here be a prop- 
er one for acclimatization. Itis very rich in a peeu- 
liar kind of kino. The lac insect is also nourished 
by this tree, and might be transferred to us with it. 
Buchloa dactyloides, Torrey.* — The true Buffalo- 
grass of Kansas. Dicecious, creeping, only rising to 
half a foot orless. It is extremely fattening, but apt 
to be suppressed by coarser grasses on places where 
these are not trampled out or kept down by the past- 
ure animals. 
Buddleya Madagascariensis, Lamarck.—Madagas- 
car. Of the numerous species of Buddleya, the most 
eligible for shelter-copses on account of its great size 
and always tidy appearance, as well as vigor and ce- 
lerity of growth. It is ever-flowering. 
Buxus sempervirens, Linné. — Turkey Box - tree. 
South Europe, North Africa, South-west Asia. This 
slow-growing tree should timely be planted, to pro- 
vide the indispensable box-wood for wood-engravers 
and musical-instrument makers, as yet no good sub- 
stitute for it having been discovered. The box-tree 
needs calcareous soil for its best development. Among 
allied species B. Balearica attains a height of 80 feet. 
Other congeners are B. subcolumellaris, B. Cubana, 
B. Purdieana, B. citrifolia, B. acuminata, B. leviga- 
ta, B. Vahlii, B. gonoclada, B. retusa, B. glomerata, 
B. Wrightii, all from West India; further, B. Mada- 
gascarica, B. longifolia from Turkey, B. Wallichiana, 
from the Himalayas, and B. microphylla from Japan, 
but neither or any of these, nor of the various species 
of the allied Indian genus Sarcococea, nor of several 
