SAPOTACEAE 1033 
5. DIPHOLIS A. DC. Shrubs or small trees. Leaf-blades mostly glabrous. 
Calyx-lobes 5, pubescent. Corolla-lobes 5, each 3-lobed, shorter than the tube. 
Staminodia petaloid. Endosperm copious.— : 
bout 10 species, West Indian. 
aa pci. (L.) A. DC. PE Sa di" 
rub, or e bee arenes 16 m. ta S. leaf- 
blades elliptic or elliptie neeolate, 5—12 
em. long: om orate to lipte 1.5 
. lon ng: orolla , 4 mm. wide; lobe 
elliptic o val: wa da ov nu D. ov toe 
lance "e laeiniate-toothe d: berry oval o 
Eo yEverglade Keys, Fla., € "ida 
Ke Mez.)—A] year.—Flow 4 
very pend — The red or dark- DRE "e AX 
heavy ues is used in cabinet-wor rk, 
BUMELIA Sw. Shrubs or trees, usually with thorny branches. Leaf- 
bades p dedans beneath. Calyx-lobes 5. Corolla white: lobes 5, each 
middle lobe suborbicular, longer than the tube. Staminodia peta- 
à id. Bniosperm eine or very scant.—About 35 species, American.— 
BUCKTHO 
Leaf-blades glabrous, or oe with scattered hairs or slight cone beneath. 
Fruit ellipsoid- oa B. angustifolia. 
Fruit sub ae ea oe al. 
Leaf-biades obovate or spatulate type, mainly 
bro adés NA the middle. 
Twigs copiously pubescent with ag red hairs. 2. B. rufotomentosa. 
Twigs glabrous or soon becomin 
: Fruit less than 8 mm. long. 
Corolla- e about 1.5 mm. long: leaf-blades 
blunt: fruit 5 mm. long. 3. B. microcarpa. 
Col lobes about 2 mm. SUE leaf-blades 
pem fruit 6-7 mm. long 4. B. reclinata. 
Fru it o m. lon b. B. megacocca. 
eaf-blades of. pe elliptic ne broadest at the middle. 6. B. lycioides. 
Leaf-blades manifestly or copiously Dune cee beneath. 
Pubescence cei d not at all lustrou 7. B. lanuginosa. 
Pubescence lustrous, D becoming tous or coppery. 
Pedicel longer than the berry, slender: calyx-lobes of a 
suborbicular type. . B. tenaz. 
PEN d maa the berry, stout: calyx-lobes of an 
. B. lacuum. 
1. B. angus s lia Nutt. Evergreen shrub, or tree becoming 8 m. ta 
twigs glabrous: leaves relatively few ae crowded; blades oblanceolate to 
oblanceolate- be ate, 2-4 c ml 
labrous: calyx rds p^ mm. 
long: COE about wide; “ia teral 
divisions of the ee nam i lanceolate, 
regularly to doi staminodia 2.5 mm. 
s lacerate: berry 17—2 m. long.— 
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Florida Keys.—(W. —A 
TRE wn, pm heart-wood is used for 
cabinet-work. The flowers = fragrant. 
rufotomentosa Small. Evergreen 
shrub, the twigs red-tomentose: leaf-blades 
