1 4 
CALY Cl FLORAE. 
under surface. Spikes axillary, longer than the leaved, 
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, 1 0— stria ted at the base: style subulate, hairy at 
the base. Berry dry, 1— cel 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. 
iSloane 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 m sub-globose spikes. 
Cucurbitifera arbor forte, foliis subrotund is confertim 
nascentibus, ramulorum exiremitatibus tumidis, ISloane II. 
176. t. 228. f. 3. — Hudsonia arborea, Hort. Jam, II. 310. 
— Bucida capitata, Vahl. Eel. 1. 50 t. 8. 
II A B. Port Royal Mountains, where the white lime- 
stone prevails. 
Ft. April. 
A tree usually lofty, 30-00 feet in height, of a hand- 
some port ; branches horizontal ; branchlets ferruginco — 
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 
