SAPOTACEJE. (SAPODILLA FAMILY.) 275 
Berry ovoid, l-seeded.. Albumen none. — Spiny shrubs, with hard wood. 
Leaves deciduous, oblong, named into a petiole. Flowers clustered, white or 
greenish. 
1. B. lycioides, Gert. Leaves obovate-oblong, smooth on both surfaces; 
clusters many-flowered, smooth; pedicels twice as long as the flower, rather 
shorter than the petioles; corolla nearly twice the length of the calyx.— 
River-banks, Florida to North Carolina, and westward. June and July. — 
A large shrub or small tree. Leaves 2'-4'long. Flowers greenish. Berry 
ovoid. 
2. B. tenax, Willd. Leaves oblanceolate or obovate-oblong, thin, the 
lower surface, like the branchlets and many-flowered clusters, covered with silky 
brown hairs ; pedicels three times as long as the flower, shorter than the petioles ; 
corolla white, barely longer than the calyx. — Dry soil, South Carolina, and 
westward; not common. — Leaves 137 - 2)! long. Berry oval. 
3. B. lanuginosa, Pers. Leaves obovate-oblong or obovate, coriaceous, 
the lower surface, like the branchlets and many-flowered clusters, covered with a 
dense rusty villous pubescence; corolla white, twice as long as the calyx. — Dry 
sandy soil, Florida to South Carolina, and westward. June and July.— A 
shrub or small tree. Leaves 2'-3'long. Berry small, ovoid. 
4. B. reclinata, Vent. Smooth; branches diffuse; leaves itonaceha: 
emarginate; clusters few-flowered.— Varies with the branchlets, leaves, and 
clusters sprinkled with appressed silky fulvous hairs; flowers smaller. — River- 
banks, Florida to South Carolina. June and July. — Shrub 39-49 high. 
Leaves 1'-2'long. Flowers white. Berry globose. 
5. B. parvifolia, A. DC. Smooth throughout; lateral branches short 
and spine-like ; leaves small, coriaceous, Janceolate-spatulate or oblong-obovate, 
obtuse, clustered ; flowers few in a cluster, on short pedicels; calyx-lobes ovate, 
obtuse, the two outer ones smaller; corolla yellowish-white ; berry large, oblong. 
(B. angustifolia, Nutt.) — Sonth Florida. — A small tree. Leaves l' long. 
Berry 3! —. 4" long. 
4. MIMUSOPS, L. 
Calyx 6-8-parted ; the lobes in two rows. Corolla 6 — 8-cleft, with 2 none 
dages between the lobes. Stamens 6 - 8, with as many 2-lobed sterile ones inter- 
Posed. Ovary 6 -8-celled, hirsute. Berry globose, 1-2-celled. Albumen 
fleshy.— Trees or shrubs. Leaves coriaceous, clustered at the summit of the 
branches. Flowers axillary, white. 
l M. Sieberi, A. DC. Branches short, thick, tubercular; leaves rigid, 
smooth, oblong, emarginate at the apex, obtuse at the base, on stout petioles; : | M 
comin dee petiole, recurved ; calyx-lobes coriaceous, ovate-laneeolate, — E 
as e: as the corolla. — South — 2!—3' long 
