156 SAPOTACEAE, 
rosy open nearly sessile bell-shaped gamopetalous flowers; and 
small rounded many-seeded capsules. 
Leaves oblanceolate, pointed. P. barbulata. 
Family SAPOTACEAE. Sapodilla Family. 
A chiefly tropical family members of which yield gutta 
percha, a number of tropical fruits, chicle, etc.: scarcely useful 
in planting. 
BuMELIA. False Buckthorn. 
Deciduous shrubs or small trees armed with axillary more 
or less leafy thorns; with pale hard wood with occasional small 
ducts along the beginning of the season’s growth, very numer- 
ous minute ducts forming a coarse netted pattern in the sum- 
mer wood, and very fine medullary rays; moderate roundish 
twigs, woolly when young; roundish homogeneous pale pith; 
alternate somewhat raised crescent-shaped leaf-scars with 3 
bundle-traces; no stipule-scars; small ovoid sessile solitary buds 
with several exposed scales; simple rather oblanceolate moder- 
ate short-stalked leaves often clustered on short spurs; small 
perfect gamopetalous long-stalked flowers clustered on the spurs, 
and small 1-seeded berry-like fruit. 
Leaves raised-veiny beneath, glabrous, like flowers. B. lycioides. 
Leaves hairy beneath, like flowers and pedicels. B. lanuginosa. 
Family ERBENACEAE. Ebony Family. 
A chiefly tropical family yielding ebony and other hard 
woods, the Japanese persimmon, etc.: scarcely of decorative use. 
Diospyros. Persimmon. 
Deciduous shrubs or moderate-sized trees with hard brown- 
ish or blackening wood with small diffused ducts, numerous fine 
transverse lines of wood-parenchyma and very fine medullary 
rays; rather slender roundish twigs; somewhat angled 
spongy pith; alternate often 2-ranked somewhat raised half- 
round leaf-scars with 1 crescent-shaped bundle-trace; no stipule- 
scars; solitary sessile ovoid buds with about 3 exposed scales; 
rather large simple entire stalked leaves; small cup-shaped pale 
