COMBRETACF..K. 
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Avitli the radicle directed towards the hilum ; 
plumule inconspicuous ; cotyledons leaiy, usually 
convolute, occasionally plait< d. 
Trees or shrubs: leaves without stipules, entire: spikes • 
axillary or terminal. Natives of Tropical countries. 
1 he baikot 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 live longer be tween the divisions ; anthers 
didymous. Style subulate. Drupe berried : nut 
angulated; ovules 2 5 seed l, c\lindraceo-oblong. 
West- India trees. Leaves scattered, collected at the 
end oi the branchlets : pedunclesaxillary: flowers spiked, 
or capitate. Name from /} HS 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 eonfertim nascentibus, cortice ad coria densan- 
da utili, Sloane, Jam. Hint. II. 67. t. 189. f. 3.' — Buceras, 
Browne , Jam. 221. t. 23. f. 1.— Bucida buceras, Swartz, 
Obs. ISO. 
II A B- 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-pubesccnt on the 
