Brucea
(commemorative of James Bruce, the celebrated African traveller). ORD. Simarubeae. Ornamental stove evergreen shrubs. Flowers small, purplish inside, disposed in interrupted glomerate spikes, or racemes. Leaves impari-pinnate, with six pairs of opposite, entire or serrated leaflets, without dots. Branches, peduncles, petioles, and nerves of leaves, clothed with rufescent down. They thrive in a loamy soil; and cuttings from ripened wood strike freely, in a pot of sand, under a hand glass, in a moderate heat. B. antidysenterica (antidysenteric). fl., racemes simple, spike-like. May. l., leaflets quite entire, clothed with rusty villi on the nerves beneath. h. 8ft. Abyssinia, 1775.
B. sumatrana. (Sumatra).* fl. dark purple; racemes usually compound. May. l., leaflets serrated, villous beneath. h. 20ft. Sumatra, 1822.