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cylindrically oblong. West India trees, with scattered leaves, 

 crowded at the tops of the branches. Peduncles axillary. 

 Flowers disposed in spikes or heads. 



1 B. BU CERAS (Lin. spec. 556.) leaves ovate-cuneiform, ob- 

 tuse, glabrous ; flowers disposed in cylindrical spikes, densely 

 clothed with adpressed silky pubescence. ^.S. Native of the 

 West Indies, in low swampy clayey lands near the coast. Flowers 

 small, yellowish. Sloane, hist. 2. t. 189. f. 3. Browne, jam. t. 

 23. f. 1. Lam. ill. t. 356. The ends of the branches some- 

 times shoot out into a monstrous spongy excrescence, like an 

 ox's horn, probably formed by insects ; hence the specific name. 

 Browne says this tree is remarkable for its slender crooked 

 branches, and the tufted disposition of the leaves, that it grows 

 to a considerable size, is reckoned an excellent timber tree, and 

 that the bark is greatly esteemed by tanners. In Jamaica it is 

 called Black olirc, in Antigua French oak, and in the French 

 Islands Grignon. 



Ox-horn Olive-bark-tree. Fl. Aug. Sept. Clt. 1793. Tr. 

 20 to 30 feet. 



2 B. ANGUSTIFOLIA (D. C. prod. 2. p. 10.) leaves cuneiform, 

 obtuse, glabrous ; flowers disposed in cylindrical spikes, clothed 

 with rufous velvety down. T? . S. Native of Guiana. This 

 species comes very near to Bucida buceras, but the leaves are 

 not half so broad, and on shorter petioles, and the spikes are 

 more numerous from the same knot, and the stamens are more 

 exserted. 



Narrom-leaved Olive-bark-tree. Tree 20 feet. 



3 B. CAPITA'TA (Vahl. eel. 1. p. 50. t. 8.) leaves cuneiform, 

 bluntish, with villously ciliated margins ; flowers disposed in 

 subglobose capitate spikes. I? . S. Native of Mont Serrat, 

 Porto Rico, St. Domingo, and Jamaica. Hudsonia, Robins 

 in Lun. hort. jam. 2. p. 310. and Sloan, hist. 2. p. 176. t. 228. 

 f. 3. Flowers yellowish. Bracteas villous. Calyxes glabrous. 



CajfJ/iate-flowered Olive-bark-tree. Tree 20 to 30 feet. 



4 B. MEGAPOTA'MICA (Spreng. syst. append, p. 177.) ra- 

 cemes subcorymbose ; bracteas silky; calyxes woolly; leaves 

 oblong-lanceolate, obtuse, rather mucronate. fj . S. Native 

 of Brazil, at the Rio Grande. 



Rio Grande Olive-bark-tree. Tree. 



Cult. The species of Bucida grow best in a mixture of loam 

 and peat, and cuttings of well-ripened wood strike freely, if 

 planted in a pot of sand, with a hand-glass placed over them, 

 in heat. 



II. AGATHISA'NTHES (from ayafltj, agathis, a round 

 head, and avdos, anthos, a flower ; in reference to the flowers 

 being disposed in pedunculate heads). Blum, bijdr. p. 645. 

 D. C. prod. 3. p. 10. 



LIN. SYST. Dioi'da, Decdndria. Flowers dioecious, apeta- 

 lous. Calyx of the male flowers 5-parted, with the lobes con- 

 niving imbricately. Stamens usually 10 ; filaments very short, 

 inserted in a flat disk ; anthers didymous. Calyx of the female 

 flowers with a short 5-toothed limb. Style short, bifid, perfo- 

 rating the flat disk. Ovary 1-ovulate. Drupe baccate, umbi- 

 licate, containing a 1 -seeded compressed nut. Embryo exal- 

 buminous, inverted. A tree 120 feet high, with crowded, oblong, 

 quite entire, coriaceous leaves ; and axillary and lateral, solitary 

 or twin stalked heads of flowers. This genus is intermediate 

 between Bucida and Ceratostachys. 



1 A. JAVA'NICA (Blum. 1. c.). ^ . S. Native of Java, in 

 woods on the higher mountains on the west side of the island, 

 where it is called by the natives Hinmg. 



Java Agathisanthes. Tree 120 feet. 



Cult. See Bucida for culture and propagation. 



III. TERMINA'LIA (from terminus, end; so named from 

 the leaves being in bunches at the ends of the branches, in- 



VOL. II. 



termixed with spikes of flowers). Lin. mant. 21. Jacq. coll. 

 1. p. 130. D. C. prod. 2. p. 10. Catappa, Myrobalanus, 

 and Badamia, Gaertn. Terminalia, Pamia, Tanibouca, and 

 Fatrae'a, Juss. 



LIN. SYST. Polygiimia, Moncccia. Flowers usually poly- 

 gamous from abortion. Limb of calyx campanulate (f. 88. c. e.\ 

 deciduous, 5-cleft ; lobes acute. Petals wanting. Stamens 10, 

 inserted by 2 series, longer than the calyx. Ovary biovu- 

 late (f. 88. .). Style filiform, acutish (f. 88. d.). Drupe not 

 crowned by the calyx, usually dry, indehiscent, 1 -seeded. 

 Seed amygdalaceous. Cotyledons spirally convolute (f. 88. 6.). 

 Tropical trees and shrubs, with alternate leaves, usually 

 crowded at the tops of the branches. Flowers disposed in spikes; 

 spikes racemose or panicled ; the flowers in the lower part of 

 the spikes hermaphrodite, in the upper part male. This genus 

 is divisible by the fruit, but that in most of the species being 

 unknown, the greater part of them remain in uncertain divi- 

 sions. Those species with a 4-cleft calyx and 8 stamens 

 ought probably to be excluded from the genus. 



SECT. I. CATA'PPA (the Molucca name of T. Catappa). 

 Gaertn. fruct. 2. p. 206. t. 127. and 3. p. 207. t. 217. Termi- 

 nalia, Lam. ill. t. 848. Drupe compressed, winged at the mar- 

 gins (f. 87. .), or much attenuated, containing a woody putamen. 



1 T. TANIBOU'CA (Smith, in Rees' cycl. vol. 35. no. 11.) leaves 

 elliptic, acuminated at both ends, quite entire, when young rather 

 pubescent, when adult smooth ; petioles glandless. P; . S. Na- 

 tive of French Guiana. Lam. ill. 848. f. 3. R. Br. prod. nov. 

 holl. 1. p. 351. Tanibouca Guianensis, Aubl. guian. 1. t. 178. 

 Catappa Guianensis, Gaertn. fruct. 3. p. 207. t. 217. Tani- 

 bouca is the Guiana name of the tree. 



Tanibouca Terminalia. Tree 25 feet. 



2 T. ANGUSTIFOLIA 



(Jacq. hort. vind. 3. t. 

 100.) leaves linear-lance- 

 olate, rather repand, at- 

 tenuated at both ends, 

 pubescent beneath and on 

 the petioles, or pilose ; 

 petiole furnished with 2 

 glands at the apex. 

 *} . S. Native of the 

 East Indies. CrotonBen- 

 zoe, Lin. mant. 297. T. 

 Benzoin, Lin. fil. suppl. 

 Lam. diet. 1. p. 349. 

 Catappa Benzoin, Gsertn. fr. 2. p. 206. t. 127. T. Benzoe, 

 Pers. Branches in whorles. This tree produces one kind of 

 benzoin ; it is procured by wounding the tree ; it is composed of 

 large white and light brown pieces, breaking very easily between 

 the hands. When gently dried it forms a white powder, for- 

 merly in great request as a cosmetic. Its scent is one of the most 

 agreeable. But the most striking ingredient of this resin is the 

 benzoic acid. 



Narrow-leaved Terminalia. Clt. 1 692. Tree 30 to 40 feet. 



3 T. VE'RNIX (Lam. diet. 1. p. 350.) leaves linear-lanceolate, 

 tapering to both ends, glabrous as well as the branches and pe- 

 tioles. lj . S. Native of the Moluccas. A'bor vernicis, Rumph. 

 amb. 2. p. 259. t. 86. Perhaps the petiole is furnished with 2 

 glands. The juice of the tree is employed in the countries of 

 its natural growth as a varnish. 



Varnish Terminalia. Tree 15 feet. 



4 T. MAURITIA'NA (Lam. diet. 1. p. 349. ill. t. 848. f. 2.) 

 leaves oblong-lanceolate, attenuated at both ends, rather repand, 

 glabrous ; petiole furnished with 2 glands at the top. Ij . S. 

 Native of the Mauritius and Bourbon, where a resin is collected 



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FIG. 87. 



