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It reaches a height of 3 or 4 feet and is widely grown throughout the 
tropics for its decorative value, for its fiber, and for its fruit. The 
latter is about the sizeof aplum. A most cooling drink is made from it. 
Brunfelsia americana belongs to the Solanaceae, the family to which 
the potato, tomato, petunia, and matrimony vine belong. This plant 
is grown in Florida for its fragrant white flowers. 
Brunfelsia floribunda is a related species with rich violet flowers. 
Bryophyllum pinnatum (B. calycinum), or SPROUTING Lear, belongs 
to the Crassulaceae, the family to which the common hen-and-chickens 
belongs. If a leaf is cut off and placed on wet sand in a warm moist 
room, young plants will spring up in the notches along the edge of the 
ARO WA poe its common name. The plant is used in medicine as a 
luretic. 
Buphane disticha, or CattLE-DEsTROYER, is a native of southern 
Africa that belongs to the Amaryllidaceae, or Amaryllis family. The 
leaves of the plant kill many cattle annually in its native regions. The 
bulbs furnish the poison that certain native tribes use for poisoning 
their arrows. 
Caesalpinia sappan, or SAPPAN TREE, is a native of the East Indies 
that belongs to the Leguminosae, or Pulse family. The tree yields a 
red dye that forms an article of export. 
Caesalpinia sepiara, of the same genus, is a scrambling shrub from 
India, valued as a hedge plant and as a source of dye-wood. 
Caesalpinia Bouducella, or NicKER Nut VINE, of the same genus, is a 
climber found along tropical seacoasts. The seeds, or nuts, are used 
as necklaces and rosaries. 
Cajanus indicus, or CoNco Pa, is a native of Africa that belongs to 
the Leguminosae, or Pulse family. The shrub is cultivated through- 
out the tropics for its seeds, which are used as food both for people 
and for live-stock. 
Callistemon lanceolatus (Metrosideros floribunda), or BottLE-Brusn, 
belongs to the Myrtaceae, a family with no local representatives. _ The 
tree is a native of Australia, but is widely grown in California as an 
ornamental tree. Its showy flower clusters look like bottle-brushes, 
whence the name. The wood is hard and heavy and is used for wheel- 
wright’s work and mallets. 
Calophyllum ionophyllum, or BitTER OIL TREE, is a large tropical tree 
that belongs to the Guttiferaceae, a family with no local representa- 
tives. It is much planted in the tropics as an ornamental shade tree. 
Its flowers are most fragrant. Its timber, which is durable and re- 
sembles mahogany in appearance, is used for shipbuilding, making 
canoes, and other purposes. The seeds yield bitter oil, or domba oil, 
valued as a remedy for bruises, rheumatism, and other ills, and used 
to some extent for lighting purposes. The tree bark exudes a gum- 
resin, one of the tacamahaca gums of commerce. 
Canangum odoratum, or YLANGYLANG, is a native of India and the 
Pacific Islands that belongs to the Anonaceae, the family to which 
