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segments, five exterior to the remainder, 

 which are much smaller and of a different 

 shape ; it has two small bracts at the base. 

 Petals five, small, linear, scale-like; sta- 

 mens fifteen to twenty, inserted with the 

 petals into the throat of the calyx, the fila- 

 ments unequal in length. Carpels two at 

 the bottom of the calyx, one to two- 

 seeded ; style terminal ; stigma peltate. 



B. anthelmintica, the only known species, 

 is an Abyssinian tree with alternate pin- 

 nated leaves and dioecious flowers ; in the 

 true female flowers the petals and stamens 



Brayera anthelmintica. 



are entirely wanting. The flowers of this 

 tree have been long used by the natives as 

 a vermifuge, and have proved very effica- 

 cious in the removal of tape-worm in this 

 country. The cause of its peculiar effects 

 is not well understood. [M. T. M.] 



BRAYETTE. (Fr.) Primula (officinalis) 

 veris. 



BRAZILETTO. The common name for 

 Ccesalpinia ; also specially, the colonial 

 name of C. brasiliensis, the timber of which 

 is used for cabinet-work. 



BRAZIL WOOD. A dye wood obtained 

 from Ccesalpinia echinata, and other species. 



BRAZORIA. A genus of Labiatee, na- 

 tives of Texas, and containing two 

 species of erect branching herbs with the 

 lower leaves petiolate and obovate-oblong, 

 the upper serrate and lanceolate, and the 

 flowers in simple terminal spikes. The 

 calyx is campanulate and two-lipped, with 

 the upper lip bilobed and the lower 

 trilobed. The corolla tube is considerably 

 exserted, the throat inflated, and the limb 

 bilabiate, with the upper lip erect, slightly 

 bilobed or entire, and the lower deeply 

 trifld, with its roundish lobes spreading or 

 recurved. [W. C] 



BREAD-FRUIT. Artocarpus incisa. 



BREAD-NUT. The seed of Brosimum 

 Alicastrum. 



BREAD-ROOT. Psoralea esculenta. 



BREAD, TARTAR. The fleshy root of 

 Crambe tatarica. 



BREAD-TREE, of N. Australia, Gar- 

 denia, or Alibertia eclulis. 



BREAK-YOUR-SPECTACLES. A vulgar 

 name for the Blue-bottle, or Corn Bottle, 



Centaurea Cyanus. 



BREATHING-PORES. See Stomates. 



BRE'DES. (Fr.) Bolanum nigrum. — 

 D'ANGOLE. Basellarubra. — GLACIALE. 

 Mesembryanthemum crystallinum. 



BREDEMEYRA. A plant which is imper- 

 fectly known and referred doubtfully to 

 the milkwort family (Polygalacea?). It is 

 described as being a shrub with alternate 

 lanceolate entire leaves, which are stalked 

 and smooth, and numerous yellow flowers 

 which are disposed in terminal much- 

 branched panicles. The calyx is fire- 

 leaved, two of the leaves petal-like ; the 

 petals are three in number, the inter- 

 mediate one keeled ; the stamens eight, 

 united at their base ; and the fruit an 

 ovate two-celled drupe. The plant is said 

 to be a native of Venezuela. [A. A. B.] 



BREHMIA. A genus of Loganiacece, 

 containing but one species, B. spinosa, 

 which is, as its name implies, a spiny 

 shrub. It grows about ten feet high, 

 and is furnished with opposite stalked 

 three or five-nerved entire leaves, ellip- 

 tical in form, and small green flowers 

 arranged in dense cymes at the apex of 

 the branches. The hard-shelled ripe fruit 

 resembles an orange in size and appear- 

 ance, and contains many seedsimmersed in 

 a copious pulp. The genus differs chiefly 

 from the nux-vomicas (Strychnos) in having 

 a one-celled ovary. The plant is found in 

 Madagascar, where it is called ' Voiva 

 Vountaca,' in eastern Africa, and also on 

 the west coast. The pulp of the fruit is 

 commonly eaten by the natives wherever 

 it grows ; it is somewhat acid, and said to 

 be delicious ; but probably the seeds, from 

 its near relationship to the nux-vomicas, 

 are poisonous. It is, however, remarkable 

 that the pulp of many species of Strychnos, 

 whose seeds area deadly poison, is perfectly 

 harmless. [A. A. B.J 



BREJEUBA. A kind of cocoa-nut, the 

 wood of which is used by the Brazilian 

 Indians in making their best bows. 



BRE'SINE. (Fr.) Zinnia multiflora. 



BREWERIA. A genus of herbs or 

 undershrubs, natives of New Holland, trop- 

 ical Asia, and Madagascar, belonging to 

 the order Convolvulacece. They have alter- 

 nate entire leaves, and solitary axillary 

 flowers. The calyx consists of five sub- 

 equal sepals ; the corolla is campanulate 

 and plaited. There are Ave included 

 stamens, The ovary is two-celled, with 

 two ovules in each cell, and bearing a 



