1 t CALYCIFLORJE. 



under surface. Spikes axillary, longer than the leaves, 

 many flowered: peduncle terete, appresso-sericeo-pub- 

 escent on the under surface. Flowers yellowish. Calyx 

 campanulate : limb 5-toothed, deciduous. Petals Q. 

 Stamens 10, twice the length of the Calyx. Ovary de- 

 pressed, 10-striated at the base: style subulate, hairy at 

 the base. Berry dry, 1 -eel led, crowned with the trunca- 

 ted remains of the limb of the calyx : seed single, ovate. 



The specific designation, Buceras. bull's horn, is applied, 

 from a long spongy horn-shaped excresence, probably 

 from the perforation of some insect, being produced from 

 the extremities of the branches. I must however ac- 

 knowledge, that although I have looked for this in many 

 individuals of the species, I have never yet met with it. 

 This is an excellent timber tree, and the wood is frequent- 

 ly employed by cabinet-makers in manufacturing orna- 

 mental and fancy articles of furniture. The bark is em- 

 ployed in tanning ; but the tree is by no means common, 

 and on that account is unable to supply the demand. 

 Sloane informs us that in his time the bark was used "in 

 tanning of sole leather." 



2. Bucida capitata, Yellow Sanders. 



Leaves obovate wedge-shaped at the base emar- 

 ginate or rounded at the apex, villoso-ciliated when 

 young, flowers crowded in sub-globose spikes. 



Cucurbitifera arbor forte, folils subrotundis confertim 

 nascentibus, ramulorum extremitatibus tumidis, Sloane II. 

 176. t. 228. f. 3. — Hudsonia arborea, Hort. Jam, II. 310. 

 — Bucida capitata, Vahl. Eel. I. 50 t. 8. 



IIAB. Port Royal Mountains, where the white lime- 

 stone prevails. 



FL. April. 



A tree usually lofty, 30-60 feet in height, of a hand- 

 some port ; branches horizontal ; branchlets ferrugineo — 

 tomentose, tuberculated with the scars of the old leaves 

 which have dropt off. Leaves 12 or more together, 

 crowded, at the ends of the branchlets, petiolated, an inch 

 and a half long, and scarcely one broad, round and occa- 

 sionally emarginate at the apex, leathery, shining, glab- 

 rous and green above, pubescent beneath ; the young 

 leaves villoso-ciliated and aureo-villous along the mid-rib 



