BACKHOUSIA

(Lat.), n. f. Ba?k-huS'us-i2-a8, Named after James Backhouse, an English botanist. Of Hooker and Harvey, a eerug of myrtaceous plants of the tribe Leptospermeæ, subtribe Hetrosidereæ. [B, 19, 42.]—B. citriodora. A small tree with ovate-lanceolate leaves having the lower surface, as well as the young shoots, hairy; and flowers in umbel-like clusters in the axils of the upper leaves, the calyx-tube being hairy and the petals short. It furnishes a volatile oil much resembling that of verbena. [T. Christy, “ New Commerce. Plants and Drugs,” No. 9. 1886, p. 16.] —B. myrtifolia [Hooker and Harvey], B. riparia [Hooker]. A small tree growing in Australia, [B, 19, 219.] pp (Ger.), n. Bak’kre*bs. See Asracus fluviailis, “