68 SAPOTACE^. 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 popular))^ called Buckthorn. Leaves in ours mostly 

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



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

 cence; tlie upper face of the leaves tinely venulose-reticulated : pedicels longer than the short 

 petioles : fruit 4 or 5 lines long, oval. 



B. tenax, ^AT^illd. Shrub or small tree, 12 to 30 feet liigli, with divergent branches : 

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

 oblanceolatc or spatulate to cuneate-obovate, obtuse (li to 2^ inches long) : fascicles very 

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

 B. chrysophi/lloidrs, Pursh, Fl. i. 155. B. reclliiotn, Chapm. Fl. 275? Sideroxylon tenax, 

 L. Mant. 48. S. sericeum, Walt. Car. 100. S. chrijsophijlhides, Michx. Fl. i. 123. Chryso- 

 pliyllum Carolimnse, Jacq. Obs. iii. t. 54. — 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 G-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. toiiiojitosa, lanur/inosa, & ohlonrjifolia (Nutt. Gen.), A. DC. I.e. B. obhmgifolia 

 & B. ferruginea, 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. Philad. 1861,461, 

 a glabrate and thin-leaved form. Sideroxylon tenax, Walt. 1. c. S. lanufilnosnm, Michx. 

 Fl. i. 1 22. — Woods, Georgia and Florida to S. Illinois and W. Texas. — The Western 

 forms [B. ohlongifolia, Nutt., B. arhoreu, Buckley) are less pubescent, and in tlie 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. pauci flora, Engelm. in distrib. I'ringle. — S. Texas 

 ( Wright, Palmer) to S. Arizona, Pringle, Lemmon. (Adj. j\Iex.) 



* * Pedicels and cal^'x glabrous: leaves nearly glabrous or soon becoming so, finely venulose- 

 reticulated, thinnish. 



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

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

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

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

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

 Fl. ii. 122. «S'. decandnim, L. Mant. 48? S. keve, 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 refuse : flowers commonly fewer. — Choix, 

 t. 22. B. lycioides, \a,v. 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. angUStif olia, Nutt. Shrub or small tree : leaves from spatulate or linear-oblanceolate 

 to broadly obovate-cuneate, very obtuse, fleshy-coriaceous : fascicles few-many-flowered : lan- 

 ceolate appendages to the corolla and ovatedanceolate staminodia acute, denticulate : fruit 

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

 Acad. Bavar. xix. 481. B. pnri-ifolia, 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. MtMUSOPS, L. (Formed of fjufxto, an ape, and oi//ts, appearance, but 

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

 having slender and inconspicuous transverse veins and minutely reticulated vein- 



