Also 9 bouchue, bucku. The name given by the natives at the Cape of Good Hope to the plant formerly termed Diosma crenata; now assigned in Pharmacopœias to various species of Barosma.
1731. Medley, Kolben’s Cape G. Hope, I. 150. Men and women … powder themselves all over with Buchu.
1866. Treas. Bot., 125. Bucku leaves are much used in medicine as a stimulant and tonic.
1875. H. Wood, Therap. (1879), 497. Owing to its bitter principle, buchu is perhaps slightly tonic.
1880. P. Gillmore, On Duty, 300. He saw that I was ‘chattering’ from fever, and gave me a draught of Bouchue and quinine.
