STANDLEY TEEES AND SHRUBS OF MEXICO. 1117 



4. Bumelia altamiranoi Rose & Standi., sp. nov. 



Type collected near Cadeyreta, QuerStaro {Rose, Painter d Rose 9725; U. S. 

 Nat. Herb. no. 453214). 



Large tree, the branches armed with stout spines 1 to 3 cm. long, densely 

 tomentose ; petioles 3 to 6 mm. long ; leaf blades broadly ovate to elliptic or ob- 

 long-oval, 2 to 4.5 cm. long, 1.5 to 3 cm. wide, rounded to subacute at apex, 

 broadly rounded at base, loosely tomentose when young, glabrate above in age, 

 paler beneath ; pedicels in fruit stout, 4 to 5 mm. long, densely whitish-tomen- 

 tose ; fruit subglobose, 1.5 to 2 cm. long. " Huicicialtemetl." 



Collected also at the same locality by F. Altamirano (no. 1644). The fruit 

 is edible and has a sweet and agreeable flavor. 



5. Bumelia stenosperma Standi., sp. nov. 



Type collected between Totolapa and San Carlos, Oaxaca, altitude 900 to 

 1,140 meters (Nelson 2548; U. S. Nat. Herb. no. 569206). 



Branches armed with stout spines 7 to 15 mm. long, the young branchlets 

 ierruginous-tonientose; petioles slender, 6 to 8 mm. long; leaf blades broadly 

 elliptic, 1.5 to 3 cm. long, 1.2 to 1.8 cm. wide, rounded or emarginate at apex, 

 obtuse at base, thinly tomentose above when young but soon glabrate and very 

 lustrous, densely ferruginous-tomentose beneath ; pedicels in fruit very stout, 

 about 5 mm. long ; fruit oblong-ellipsoid, 1.5 to 2 cm. long ; seed oblong, 1.5 cm. 

 long, 6 mm. thick, smooth, brownish gray, mottled with small, pale brown spots. 



6. Bumelia spiniflora A. DC. in DC. Prodr. 8 : 191. 1844. 

 Wumelia ferox Sch.lecht. & Cham. Liunaea 6: 392. 1831. 

 Wumelia spinosa A. DC. in DC. Prodr. 8: 191. 1844. 

 Btimelia angustifoUa Nutt. N. Amer. Sylv. 3: 38. pi. 93. 1849. 

 Bumelia schottii Britton, N. Amer. Trees 777. 1908. 



Tamaulipas and Nuevo Leon; Sinaloa; Veracruz (?). Florida and Texas; 

 Bahamas; El Salvador. 



Shrub or small tree, 2 to 6 meters high, the trunk sometimes 20 cm. in diam- 

 eter, the bark reddish gray, deeply fissured ; branchlets spinose, sericeous when 

 young or glabrous ; leaves short-petiolate, cuneate-oblanceolate to rounded- 

 obovate, rounded at apex, coriaceous, subpersistent, glabrous ; flowers short- 

 pedicellate; sepals 2 to 2.5 mm. long; fruit oblong or oval, 1 to 2 cm. long, black, 

 the flesh sweet and edible ; wood hard, weak, light brown, its specific gravity 

 about 0.79. "Coma resinera " (Tamaulipas); "coma" (Texas, Tamaulipas). 



Known in Florida and the Bahamas as " saffron plum," " ant's-wood," and 

 " downward plum." The Mexican plant has been referred to B. cuneata 

 Swartz, a West Indian species. Endlich reports that in Tamaulipas the fruit 

 is eaten as an aphrodisiac. 



7. Bumelia occidentalis Hemsl. Biol. Centr. Amer. Bot. 2: 298. 1881. 

 Sonora and southern Baja California ; type from Sonora. 



Shrub, the branchlets sometimes spinose ; leaves short-petiolate, obovate or 

 cuneate, 6 to 15 mm. long, rounded at apex, grayish-sericeous or in age 

 glabrate; pedicels 5 to 18 mm. long, usually longer than the leaves; sepals 3 

 mm. long, tomentulose. " Bebelama " (Sonora). 



8. Bumelia retusa Swartz, Prodr. Veg. Ind. Occ. 49. 1788. 

 Yucatan. Jamaica (type locality). 



Shrub or small tree, 3 to 4.5 meters high ; leaves short-petiolate, broadly 

 obovate or rounded-obovate, 2.5 to 4.5 cm. wide, rounded or emarginate at 

 apex, broadly cuneate or sometimes rounded at base, coriaceous, brown-sericeous 



