BROWNEA

(Lat.),n.f. BruS'un-e3-a8, Named after P. Browne, the historian of Jamaica. A genus of leguminous plants of the suborder Mimoseæ, growing in the northern part of South America and in Central America. [B, 19.]|—B. coccinea [Jacquin]. A Venezuela tree, In the West Indies the flowers are given to lying in women, and a decoction of the leaves is used internally and externally for hemorrhoids. [B, 180.]