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BUCIDA: buceras. 
Jamaica Olive-bark Tree. 
DECANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. Comprrracem. Brown. ra 
BUCIDA L.—Calyzx campanulatus, 5 dentatus. Stamina 10, calyce 
Jongiora. Bacca sicca, coronata, 1-sperma. Folia in ramulorum dichotomia 
et apice conferta 3 flores spicati, axillares, et terminales, cornu spicam 
terminante spongioso, forsan inani, Rhizophore clavam mentiente. Juss. 
gen. 75. 
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B. Buceras; spicis elongatis, foliis cuneiformibus glabris. Vahl. ecl. 1.50. 
Mangle iulifera, foliis subrotundis versis summitatem latissimis confertim 
nascentibus, cortice ad coria densanda. utili. Sloane jam. 156. hist. 2. 
p. 67. t. 189. f. 3. Raj. dendr. 116. : 
Buceras ramulis flexuosis tenuioribus, foliis obovati 
terminalibus. Browne jam. 221. t. 23. GM 
Bucida. Amoen. acad. 5. p. 397. 
B. Buceras. Linn. sp. pl. 556. Lam, ill. t. 356. Swartz. obs. 180. 
Willd. sp. pl. 2.630. “Pers. syn. 1.485. Ait. Kew. ed. 2. 3.61. 
Se Sr eee 
A tree 30 feet high, about 1 in diameter. Branches 
divaricate, or flexuose, roundish, smooth, and even. 
Leaves only at the divarications and summits of the 
branches, crowded together, petioled, obovate or ridge- 
shaped, obtuse, very entire, veined, smooth, near 2 inches 
long. Spikes, or rather spike-like racemes, numerous, simple, 
peduncled, axillary, near the ends of the branches, about 
the length of the leaves. Jowers small, yellowish, alter- 
nate, sessile, hoary without, tomentose within. The style, 
or upper part of the germ, especially at the extremity of 
the raceme, is sometimes extended to the length of an 
inch or more, and curved somewhat in the form of a bull’s 
horn, (whence the specific name), 
A native of the West Indies and South America. In 
Jamaica it is called Black Olive; in Antigua, French 
Oak; and in the French Islands, Grignon. Its bark is 
8 confertis, spicis plurimis 
