SAPOTACEAE. {Vor II. 
1. Bumelia lycioides (L.) Pers. Southern 
Buckthorn. (Fig. 2829.) 
Sideroxylon lyciotdes I, Sp. Pl. Ed. 2, 279. 1762. 
Bumelia lycioides Pers. Syn. 1: 237. 1805. 
A shrub or small tree with maximum height of 
about 40° and trunk diameter of about 6’, the 
bark gray, the twigs commonly spiny. Leaves 
rather firm, tardily deciduous, glabrous on both 
sides; finely reticulate-veined, oblong, elliptic, or 
oblanceolate, acute or acuminate at both ends, 
rarely obtuse at the apex, 2/-5’ long, 14’-1 4’ wide; 
petioles 2’/-6’” long; flowers about 134’’ broad, 
numerous in the dense axillary clusters; pedicels 
about the length of the petioles, glabrous; calyx- 
segments obtuse, glabrous; staminodia ovate, boat- 
shaped, entire; berry subglobose, black, 4’’-5’’ long. 
In moist thickets, Virginia to Illinois and Missouri, 
south to Florida and Texas. Wood hard, yellowish- 
brown; weight about 46 lbs. per cubic foot. June—-Aug. 
2. Bumelia lanuginosa (Michx.) Pers. 
Woolly Buckthorn. (Fig. 2830.) 
Sideroxylon lanuginosum Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 1: 
122. 1803. 
Bumelia lanuginosa Pers, Syn, 1: 237. 1805. 
A shrub or tree, sometimes reaching a height of 
60° and a trunk diameter of 3°, the twigs usually 
spiny. Leaves persistent, rather coriaceous, glab- 
rous above, densely tomentose-pubescent be- 
neath, oblanceolate, obovate or oblong, usually 
obtuse at the apex, narrowed or cuneate at the 
base, 114/-3’ long, 14’-1’ wide; petioles 2//-6’’ 
long; flowers 3-18 in the fascicles, about 114’ 
broad; pedicels tomentose, longer than the 
petioles; calyx-segments ovate, tomentose, ob- 
tusish; staminodia ovate, obscurely toothed; 
berry oval, black, 4’’-5’’ long. 
In woods and thickets, Illinois to Texas, Georgiaand 
Florida. Wood soft, weak, yellowish-brown; weight 
per cubic foot 41 lbs. Shittim-wood. June-July. 
Family 10. EBENACEAE Vent. Tabl. 2: 443. 1779. 
Epony FAMILY. 
Trees or shrubs with very hard wood, alternate entire exstipulate leaves, and 
dioecious polygamous or rarely perfect regular flowers, solitary or cymose in the 
axils. Calyx inferior, 3-7-lobed, commonly accrescent and persistent. Corolla 
gamopetalous, deciduous, 3-7-lobed, the lobes usually convolute in the bud. 
Stamens 2-3 times as many as the lobes of the corolla in the sterile flowers, and 
inserted on its tube, usually some imperfect ones in the pistillate flowers; fila- 
ments short; anthers introrse, narrow, erect. Disk none. Ovary superior, 
several-celled, in the staminate flowers rudimentary or none; ovules 1-3 in each 
cavity, suspended; styles 2-8, distinct, or united below; stigmas terminal, some- 
times 2-parted. Fruit « berry, containing several seeds, or but one. Seeds ob- 
long, compressed or globose, the testa bony, endosperm copious, cartilaginous; 
embryo small, usually straight; cotyledons large, foliaceous. 
About 6 genera and 275 species, mostly of tropical distribution. 
1. DIOSPYROS L. Sp. Pl. 1057. 1753. 
Trees or shrubs, with broad leaves and lateral cymose racemose or solitary flowers, the 
pistillate commonly solitary, the staminate usually clustered. Calyx 4-6-cleft, enlarging in 
fruit. Corolla urceolate in our species, 4-6-lobed. Stamens 8-20 in the sterile flowers, few 
or none in the pistillate ones. Styles 2-6 in the pistillate flowers; ovary globose or ovoid, 
its cavities twice as many as the styles. Ovary rudimentary in the sterile flowers. Berry 
large, pulpy, containing 4-12 flat oblong hard seeds. [Greek, Zeus’ wheat.] 
About 160 species, abundant in Asia. Besides the following, another occurs in the southwest. 
