GUAZUMA (name of Mexican origin, employed by Plumier). Bastard Cedar. SYNS. Bubroma and Diuroglossum. ORD. Sterculiaceae. A genus containing about five species of ornamental stove evergreen trees, natives of the tropical regions of both hemispheres. Flowers small; cymes axillary, shortly pedunculate. Leaves unequally dentate, often oblique. The species thrive in a compost of peat and loam. Cuttings of ripened shoots root freely in sand, under a glass, in heat. GUAZUMA ulmifolia (Elm-leaved). fl., petals yellow, with two purple awns at the apex. August. h. 40ft. to 60ft. A wide-spreading tree, not unlike the Elm, with leaves that sleep hanging quite down, whilst the petioles remain entirely stiff and straight. West Indies, 1739. SYN. Bubroma Guazuma.