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frequently 8 parted ; segments subulate, rather longer than the tube. 

 From the base of the calyx arise two subulate bracteas, dilated at 

 base, and as Ion? as the corolla. Corolla about 8 parted, rose colour- 

 ed ; segments obovate, acute, twice as long as the calyx. Stamens 

 short. Anthers rather spiral than revolute. 



From specimens collected by Mr. Abbot, in Bullock county, Geor- 

 gia, growing in and around the shallow pine barren ponds. 



Flowers August. 



BUMELIA. Gen. pl. 1736. 



^ Corolla .5-ficla. Keda- j Corolla 5-cIeft. Keda- 

 rium 5-p.hyllum. Druim | ry 5 leaved. Dnijie i 

 monosperrna. | seeded. 



1. Lycioides. 



B. spinosa, erccta ; fo- \ Spinous, erect ; leaves 

 liis lato-lanceolatis, utrin- broad, lanceolate 

 que glabris. Pursb, i. I on both sides 



p. io5, 



. Sideroxyfon lycioides, Mich. I. p. 122. Sp. pl. l.p, 1090. 



'W ^^ 



leeve, Walt. p. 100. 



A small tree, \vith tbe branches smootli and sliglitlj flexuous, 

 Lmves lanceolate, on short petioles, alternate on the joung branches, 

 chistered (3—6) on the old alternate buds. Spines short and strong, 

 ^dlary. Flowers clustered (20 — 30), on the summit of the old b-uds.- 

 i^^rfmic^es about half an inch long, one flowercd. Corolla greenish 

 .white. Brupe^ as in all the succeeding species, nearly black. 



Grows in damp soils. 



Flowers Maj—June. 



The wood, thoagh not used bj meclianics, is extremely hard, heaver 

 and irregularly grained. 



3* Reclinata. 



B. spinosa^ diffusa ; ra- I Spiny, spreading ; the 

 niis steriUbus Sivaricads ; I sterile branches divari- 

 foliis parvulis, obovatis, j cate ; leaves smal)^ obo- 

 glaberrimis. JPursh- 1- p. j vatc, very sziiootlL 



i 



Sideroxjlon reclinati:ni, Mich. 1. p. 123. . 



A small straggling shrub. 



wows along the banks of rivers in Georgia- Mich-- 



Flowers Juac--Julj* 



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