68 SAPOTACE^E. Bumelia. 



tropical America) ; with very hard wood, small white flowers fascicled in the axils 

 of the leaves, in summer, and a black cherry-like fruit. Axils often spiny : 

 therefore in S. States popularly called BUCKTHORN. Leaves in ours mostly 

 deciduous, and staminodia nearly as large as the proper corolla-lobes. 



* Pedicels, calyx, and lower face of the leaves clothed with silky or somewhat tomentose pubes- 

 cence; the upper fare of the leaves finely venulose-retieulated : pedicels longer than the short 

 petioles : fruit 4 or 5 lines long. oval. 



B. tenax, "Willd. Shrub or small tree, 12 to 30 feet high, with divergent branches : 

 pubescence silky and close-pressed, yellowish or at first whitish, shining: leaves from 

 oblanceolate or spatulate to cuneate-obovate, obtuse (1-J- to 2-1- inches long) : fascicles very 

 many-flowered: staminodia ovate. Willd. Spec. i. 1085; Nutt. Sylv. iii. 39, t. 92. 

 B. chrysophyttoides, Pursli, Fl. i. 155. B. reclhnifa, Chapm. Fl. 275? Sideroxylon tenax, 

 L. Mant. 48. S. sericeum, Walt. Car. 100. S. chrysophylloides, Michx. Fl. i. 123. Cliryso- 

 pJiyllum Cai-aHnnisc, Jacq. Obs. iii. t. 51. Sandy soil, coast of N. Carolina to Georgia. 

 B. lanuginosa, Pers. Shrub or tree, sometimes even 40 feet high, less spiny ; the 

 pubescence looser, more tomentose, and not shining : leaves from oblong-obovate to 

 cuneate-obovate: fascicles 6-18-flowered : staminodia obscurely denticulate : otherwise in 

 the most eastern forms very like the foregoing; in the western with paler or sparser down 

 to the leaves, or this partially deciduous in age so as to approach the next. Syn. i. 237 ; 

 Pursh, 1. c. B. tomentosn, lunnrjinosa, & oblongifolia (Nutt. Gen.), A. DC. I.e. B. oblongifolia 

 & B. fernujinea, Nutt. Sylv. 1. c. 33. B macrocarpa, Nutt. Sylv. iii. 37, must be this or the 

 preceding. B. arborca (not Texana, as in ed. 1), Buckley, Proc. Acad. Philnd. 1861,461, 

 a glabrate and thin-leaved form. Sideroxylon tenax, Walt. 1. c. N. litun/jinosnm, Michx. 

 Fl. i. 122. Woods, Georgia and Florida to S. Illinois arid W. Texas. The Western 

 forms (B. oblongifolia, Nutt., B. arborea, Buckley) are less pubescent, ami in the drier dis- 

 tricts pass into 



Var. rigida. More spiny, the coriaceous leaves little over inch long, from obovate to 

 cuneate-oblanceolate : seeds sometimes narrower at base and mottled. B. spinosa, Watson, 

 Proc. Am. Acad. xi. 112, not DC. ? B. pauciflora, Engelm. in distrib. Priiigle. S. Texas 

 ( Wright, Palmer) to S. Arizona, Prinyle, Lemmon. (Adj. Mex.) 



* * Pedicels and calyx glabrous: leaves nearly glabrous or soon becoming so, finely venulose- 

 retieulated, thinnish. 



B. lycioides, Pers. Shrub or low tree : leaves from oblanceolate to oblong-obovate, 

 lucid, 1 to 5 inches long, lower face sometimes whitish-pubescent when young : fascicles 

 very many-flowered, about the length of the petioles : staminodia ovate, obscurely denticu- 

 late : fruit short-ovoid, 3 to 5 lines long. Syn. i. 237 ; Gsertu. f. Carp. iii. 127, t. 202, f. 5 ; 

 Loud. Arb. t. 1016; Nutt. Sylv. iii. t. 91. Sideroxylon lyrioidfs, L. (excl. hah.) ; Michx. 

 Fl. ii. 122. S. decandrnm, L. Mant. 48? S. Iceve, Walt. 1. c. Low grounds, E. Virginia 

 and S. Illinois to Florida and Texas. 



B. reclinata, "Vent. Low shrub, decumbent or spreading, spiny : leaves an inch or less 

 long, cuneate-spatulate or obovate, obtuse or retuse : flowers commonly fewer. Choix, 

 t. 22. B. lycioides, var. reclinata, ed. 1. Sideroxylon reclinatum, Michx. Fl. i. 122. Coast 

 of Georgia and E. Florida. 



* * * Glabrous throughout: leaves thicker, small, with only obscure veins. 



B. angustifolia, Nutt. Shrub or small tree : leaves from spatulate or liuear-oblanceolate 

 to broadly obovate-cuueate, very obtuse, fleshy-coriaceous : fascicles few-mauy-flowered : lan- 

 ceolate appeudages to the corolla and ovate-lanceolate staminodia acute, denticulate: fruit 

 oblong-oval, 6 to 9 lines long, edible: seed oblong. Sylv. iii. 38, t. 93; Radlk. in Sitz. 

 Acad. Bavar. xix. 481. B. parvi folia, Chapm. Fl. 275, not A. DC. B. reclinata, Torr. Bot. 

 Mex. Bound. 109, not Vent. B. cuneata, ed. 1, not Swartz. Shores of Florida and S. E. 

 Texas. (Adj. Mex.) 



5. MlMUSOPS, L. (Formed of /AI/AW, an ape, and oi/us, appearance, but 

 the likeness is not apparent.) Trees of the tropics; with coriaceous leaves, 

 having slender and inconspicuous transverse veins and minutely reticulated vein- 



