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 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 face of the leaves finely veuulose-reticulated : 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 : 

 ])ubesc('nce silky and close-pressed, yellowish or at first whitish, shining : leaves from 

 oblanceolate or spatulate to cuneate-obovate, obtuse (1^ to 21 inches long) : fascicles very 

 man^'-flowered : staminodia ovate. — Willd. Spec. i. 1085; Nutt. Sylv. iii. 39, t. 92. 

 B. chri/sopli I/Hoicks, Pursh, Fl. i. 155. B. recUnata, Chapm. Fl. 275 ? Sideroxylon tenax, 

 L. Mant. 48. S. sericeum, Walt. Car. 100. S. chrysophylloides, Michx. Fl. i. 12-3. Chryso- 

 phyllum CaroUnense, Jacq. Obs. iii. t. 5i. — 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 tliis partially deciduous in age so as to approach tlie next. — Syn. i. 237 ; 

 Pursh, 1. c. B. tomeiifosa, lanuginosa, & oUomji folia (Nutt. Gen.), A. DC. I.e. B. ohloncjifolia 

 & B. femujinea, Nutt. Sylv. 1. c. 33. B. Texana, Buckley in Proc. Acad. Philad. 1862. Sider- 

 oxylon tenax? Walt. 1. c. S. laniir/inosum, Michx. Fl. i. 122. — Woods, Georgia and Florida 

 to Texas, S. W. Illinois, and Missouri ; the western form being B. oblom/ifolia, Nuttall. 



Var. macrocarpa. Low and depressed : leaves less than an inch long, glabrate 

 with age : " fruit edible, as large as a small date." — B. macrocarpa, Nutt. Sylv. 1. c. — Sand 

 liills of the Altamaha, Georgia, Nuttall. To be rediscovered. 



* * Pedicels and calyx glabrous, and leaves nearly or quite so throughout. 

 -H- Leaves finely venulose-reticulated, rather thin. 



B» lycioldes, Gaertn. Shrub or low tree : leaves from oblanceolate to obovate-oblong 

 and on vigorous shoots ovate-lanceolate (1^ to 5 inches long), reticulated ; the primary 

 veins numerous, prominent, and obliquely transverse ; the lower face not rarely whitish- 

 pubescent when young : fascicles very many-flowered, about the length of the petioles : 

 staminodia ovate, obscurely denticulate: fruit short-ovoid, 3 to 5 lines long. — Ga?rtn. f. 

 Carp. Suppl. 3. 127, t. 120 ; Loud. Arb. t. lOlG ; Nutt. Sylv. 1. c. t. 01. Sideroxylon lycioides, 

 L. (excl. hab.) ; Michx. 1. c. S. decandrum, L. Mant. 48 ? S. here, Walt. 1. c. — Thickets, in 

 low grounds, coast of Virginia and Illinois to Florida and Texas. Staminodia (as large as 

 proper lobes of the corolla) sometimes with a pair of minute scales at their base. — Smaller- 

 leaved forms in Florida and Louisiana pass into 



Var. reclinata. Spreading or depressed shrub : leaves half inch to an inch or more 

 in length, oblong with more or less cuneate base: branches very spiny. — B. reclinata. 

 Vent. Choix. t. 22. Sideroxylon reclinatum, Michx. Fl. i. 122. — St. Mary's River, S. E. 

 Georgia (Michanx), and E. Florida, Garber, &c. 



-1— -i— Leaves thicker, coriaceous, less veiny; veinlets obscurely if at all reticulated. 



B. CUneata, S"Wartz. Shrub or small tree, glabrous : leaves from spatulate or linear- 

 oblanceolate to broadly obovate-cuneate, very obtuse (half to an inch and a half long), 

 rather fleshy ; the veins inconspicuous and strongly ascending : fascicles few-many- 

 flowered : lanceolate appendages to the corolla and the ovate-lanceolate staminodia nearly 

 equalling the proper lobes, acute, denticulate : fruit oblong-oval, edible, 6 to 9 lines long ; 

 the seed oblong. — Fl. Ind. Dec. i. 490 ; Griseb. Fl. W. Ind. 401 (but "berry obovoid-glo- 

 bose"). B. myrsinifolia, A. DC. I.e. 192. B. parvi/olia, (A. DC. I.e.?) Chapm. Fl. 275. 

 B. angustifolia, Nutt. Sylv. iii. 38. t. 93. B. reclinata, Torr. Mex. Bound. 100. — S. Florida 

 from Key West to Tampa Bay; lower part of the Rio Grande, Texas. (W. Ind., Mex.) 



5. MIMUSOPS, L. (P^'ormed of ^tr/^w, an ape, and oxpig^ appearance, but 

 the likeness is not apparent.) — Trees of the tropic.'^; Avith coriaceous leaves, 

 having sleude;' and inconspicuous transverse veins and minutely reticulated vein- 



