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TYPE LOCALITY: James Peak, Colorado. 
Rance: Alberta to New Mexico. 
New Mexico: Taos Mountains; Santa Fe and Las Vegas mountains. Summits of 
mountains, in the Arctic-Alpine Zone. 
Order 41. EBENALES. 
111. SAPOTACEAE. Sapodilla Family. 
1. BUMELIA Swartz. BucxrHorn. 
Low tree with rigid spreading branches; leaves alternate, simple, entire; flowers in 
few-flowered axillary fascicles, perfect, 5-merous; calyx persistent; corolla white, 
deciduous, the lobes longer than the tube; stamens 5, epipetalous; staminodia 5, 
petaloid; ovary 5-celled; fruit drupelike. 
1. Bumelia rigida (A. Gray) Small, Bull. N. Y. Bot. Gard. 1: 444. 1900. 
Bumelia lanuginosa rigida A. Gray, Syn. FI. 21: 68. 1878. 
Tyre Locauity: “‘S. Texas to 8. Arizona.”’ 
Rance: Western Texas to southern Arizona. 
New Mexico: Dog Spring; Deer Creek. Dry hills, in the Upper Sonoran Zone. 
Order 42. OLEALES. 
112. OLEACEAE. Olive Family. 
Trees, shrubs, or herbaceous perennials, with opposite (rarely alternate), simple or 
pinnate, exstipulate leaves and regular, 2 to 4-parted, perfect, polygamous, or dice- 
cious flowers in panicles, corymbs, or fascicles; calyx usually small (sometimes want- 
ing), of 4 or more sepals; corolla of 2 to 6 distinct petals or gamopetalous; stamens 
2 to 4, adnate to the base of the corolla; ovary superior, 2-celled; fruit a capsule, 
samara, berry, or drupe. 
KEY TO THE GENERA. - 
Fruit fleshy, a small, bluish black drupe; flowers apetal- - 
ous, polygamo-dicecious; good sized shrubs...... 1. Forestiera (p. 495). 
Fruit dry, a capsule or samara; flowers various; herbs, 
trees, or shrubs. 
Fruit a samara; flowers dicecious; trees with mostly 
pinnate leaves.........-...-----.-----+-+---+-- 2. FRAXINUS (p. 496). 
Fruit a thin-walled capsule; flowers perfect; low, her- 
baceous or suffrutescent plants with simple 
leaves and bright yellow flowers. 
Corolla rotate or campanulate; stamens exserted ; 
filaments filiform...............--------- 3. MeNopora (p. 497). 
Corolla salverform, with a long tube; stamens 
included, the anthers nearly sessile... .- 4. MENopoRoPsIS (p. 497). 
1. FORESTIERA Poir. Ironwoop. 
Rather large shrubs with divaricately branching stems bearing broad simple leaves 
and inconspicuous polygamo-dicecious flowers in lateral clusters; flowers appearing 
before the leaves on stems of the previous year; calyx usually present but small; 
corolla mostly wanting; stamens 2 to 4; fruit a blue black drupe. 
KEY TO THE SPECIES. 
Leaves glabrous..........---.----222----2-222----20-2 2-22 ee eee 1. F. neomexicana, 
Leaves pubescent........2..2-20 00 cece cece eee eee eee eee eee 2. F. pubescens, 
