Bot. Also Volc-. [mod.L., f. the name of Johann G. Volckamer, a German botanist (1616–93).] A Linnæan genus of verbenaceous shrubs, characterized by their fleshy or corky fruit; a shrub or plant of this genus.
1753. Chambers’ Cycl., Suppl., Volkameria, in botany, the name of a genus of plants…. The fruit is a roundish bilocular capsule.
1823. Crabb, Technol. Dict., s.v., The species are shrubs, as—Volkameria aculeata,… Prickly Volkameria, &c.
1833. B’ness Bunsen, in Hare, Life (1879), I. ix. 403. I have replanted with roses, oleanders, volcamerias, and geraniums.
1866. Treas. Bot., 1225.
