BUNCHOSIA

(from bunchos, the Arabic name for Coffee; in allusion to the similarity between the seeds of this genus and those of Coffee). O RD. Malpighiaceæ. Ornamental greenhouse evergreen shrubs, nearly allied to Malpighia, but having the racemes of flowers axillary. Fruit fleshy, indehiscent, externally smooth, and containing two or three seeds. They thrive best in a compost of loam, peat, leaf soil, and sand, in about equal proportions. Cuttings of ripened shoots will root in sand under a bell gla , in moist bottom heat, taking several weeks to do so. Good drainage is e ential, both in striking cuttings and in the cultivation of the plants. IMG:7081556231692414330_i_223.jpg: F IG . 302. B URBIDGEA NITIDA .