664 PLANT LIFE OF ALABAMA. 
SAPOTACEAE. Sapodilla Family 
BUMELIA Sw. Prodr. 49, 1788. 
About 30 species, trees and shrubs, warmer temperate, but chiefly of subtropical 
and tropical America. Southern Atlantic North America, 4, 
Bumelia lanuginosa (Michx.) Pers. Syn. 1: 237. 1805. FALSE BUCKTHORN. 
Siderorylon lanuginosum Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 1:122. 1808. 
Ell. Sk. 1:288. Gray, Man, ed. 6, 333, Chap. Fl, 275. Coulter, Contr. Nat. Herb. 
2:256, Sargent, Silv. N.A.5:171, t. 247. Gray, Syn. Fl, N. A. 2, pt. 1:68, 
Carolinian and Louisianian areas. Southern Illinois and Missouri, south to Texas 
and east to Florida and Georgia. 
ALABAMA: Tennessee Valley. Coast plain. Open woods, in damp rocky or 
gravelly soil, Franklin County, Russellville. Pike County, Troy. Mobile County. 
Flowers in June; fruit ripe September, black. Not infrequent in the Coast plain, 
along the western shore of Mobile Bay. Tree rarely over 40 feet high. 
Type locality: ‘ Hab. in dumosis humidis Georgiae.”’ 
Herb. Geol, Surv. Herb, Mohr. 
Bumelia lycioides (L.) Pers. Syn. 1:237. 1805, SOUTHERN BUCKTHORN, 
Siderorylon lycioides L. Sp. Pl. ed. 2,1:279. 1762. 
Ell. Sk. 1:287. Gray, Man. ed. 6,332. Chap. FI, 275. Coulter, Contr. Nat. Herh, 
2:257, Gray, Syn. Fl. N.A.2, pt. 1:68, Sargent, Silv. N. A. 5: 173, ¢. 248. 
Carolinian and Louisianian areas. Coast of Virginia, south to Florida, west to 
Texas, Arkansas, Missouri, and southern Illinois, 
ALABAMA: Prairie region, Dry open woods, copses, calcareous soil, Dallas 
County. Wileox County (Buckley). Flowers greenish white, March; fruit ripe in 
October, shining black, Not frequent. 
Type locality: ‘Hab. in Canada,” 
Herb. Geol. Surv, Herb. Mohr, 
EBENACEAE. Ebony Family. 
DIOSPYROS L. Sp. Pl. 2: 1057, 1753. 
About 160 species, eastern Asia. North America,2. Trees. 
Diospyros virginiana L. Sp. Pl. 2:1057. 1753. PERSIMMON, 
Ell. Sk.2:712. Gray, Man. ed. 6, 333. Chap. Fl. 273. Coulter, Contr. Nat. Herb. 
2:257. Gray, Syn. FL N. A. 2, pt.1:69. Sargent, Silv. N. A. 6:7, t. 264, 
Carolinian and Louisianian areas. Southern Connecticut and New York, to the 
Ohio Valley, Missouri, and Arkansas, south to Florida, and along the Gulf to eastern 
Texas, 
ALABAMA: Allover the State. Flowers May; fruit ripe in September and Octo- 
ber, orange buff. Tree of medium size, 40 to 50 feet high, rarely over 12 inches in 
diameter. Produces in the Coast plain its fruit in greatest perfection, with few seeds 
and a rich sweet pulp, ripening early in September. 
Economic uses; Valuable for its wood. The unripe fruit, ‘‘ Diospyros,” is an obso- 
lete medicine. The mature fruit is used for food. 
Type locality: ‘ Hab. in America septentrionali.” 
Herb. Geol. Surv, Herb. Mohr. 
STYRACACEAE. Storax Family. 
MOHRODENDRON Britton, Gard. & For. 6: 463. 1898, 
(HALESIA Ellis; L, Syst. ed. 10,2:1044. 1759. Not P. Br. 1756.) 
(Mouria Britton, Gard. & For. 6:434. 1893. Not Sw. 1806.) 
(CARLOMOHRIA Greene, Erythea, 1: 236. 1893. ) 
Three species, Atlantic North America, Southern. Trees. 
Mohrodendron carolinum (L.) Britton, Gard. & For. 6:463. 1893. 
CAROLINA SILVERBELL TREE, Opossum Woop, 
Halesia carolina L. Syst. ed. 10,2:1044, 1759, 
H. tetraptera L. Sp. Pl. ed. 2, 1:636. 1762, 
EN. Sk.1:507. Gray, Man. ed. 6, 334, Chap, P1271, Gray, Syn. Fl N. A. 2, pt.1:71, 
Carolinian area, West Virginia, along the mountains to Tennessee and Florida? 
