No. 129, 
BRUCEA FERRUGINEA, 
Class, Order. 
DIOECIA TETRANDRIA. 
Our present subject, though not among 
the most beautiful, is still very interesting, 
from the celebrated traveller who brought it 
from Abyssinia, and after whom it was 
named by Sir Joseph Banks. It seems to be 
nearly the only plant which Mr. Bruce 
brought from that almost-inaccessible coun- 
try, although several very fine ones are re- 
presented in his travels. The root, he in- 
forms us, is used in Abyssinia as a remedy 
for the dysentery. It grows pretty freely in 
the stove, potted in loam and peat earth, 
and flowered with us in December. We 
have increased it by cuttings. 
