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with the radicle directed towards the hilum 5 

 plumule inconspicuous 5 cotyledons lealy, usually 

 convolute, occasionally plaited. 



Trees or shrubs: leaves without stipules, entire: spikes 



axillary or terminal. Natives of Tropical countries. 



The baikof several of the species is astringent and used 

 for tanning, and the timber is durable and much esteemed. 



1 BUCIDA. 



Calyx with the limb campanulato-urceolate, 

 5-toothed, deciduous. Petals O . Stamens 10, 

 arranged in two rows ; 5 at the base of the limb, 

 and five longer between the divisions ; anthers 

 didymous. Style subulate. Drupe berried: nut 

 angulated} ovules 2; seed 1, c)Jindraceo-oblong. 



West-India trees. Leaves scattered, collected at the 

 end of the branchlets : peduncles axillary : flowers spiked, 



or capitate. Name from p„ s an Ox ; the form of the 



ripe fruit bearing a resemblance to the horn of that ani- 

 mal. 



1. Bucida buceras, Olive-bark tree. 



Leaves obovate wedge-shaped obtuse glabrous, 

 flower-spikes cylindrical, rachis appresso-seri- 

 ceo-pubesent. 



Mangle julifera, foliis subrotundis versus summitatem 

 latissimis confertim nascentibus, cortice ad coria densan- 

 da utili, Shane, Jam. Hist. II. 67. t. 189. f. 3. — Buceras, 

 Browne, Jam. 221. t. 23. f. 1. — Bucida buceras, Swartz, 

 Obs. ISO. 



HAB. Sea shore, in marshy situations. Near the 

 Ferry Inn. Port-Morant. 



F L, Spring. 



A Tree, 20-30 feet in height : branches horizontally 

 spreading, divaricating, terete, smooth, striated. Leaves 

 crowded at the bifurcation and at the extremities of the 

 branches, petiolate, obovate, entire, coriaceous, obscurely 

 nerved, glabrous, but when young sericeo-pubescent on the 



