1118 CONTRIBUTIONS FROM THE NATIONAL HERBARIUM. 



beneath or glabra te ; flowers numerous, in dense fascicles, greenish yellow ; 

 fruit subglobose, 8 to 10 mm. long. " Putzmucuy " (Yucatan, Maya). 



The Yucatan material has been referred to B. buxifolia Willd., B. glomerata 

 Griseb., and B. micropliylla Griseb., but it is probable that all the collections 

 are referable to B. retusa, to which some of them have been referred by 

 Pierre and Urban. 



9. Bumelia brandegei Blake, Contr. Gray Herb. 52: 76. 1907. 



Bumelia fragrans T. S. Brandeg. Zoe 5: 106. 1901. Not B. fragrans Ridley, 

 1890. 



Southern Ba.1a California ; type from San Jos6 del Cabo. 



Shrub, 3 to 5 meters high, the branches armed with short spines ; leaves 

 short-petiolate, cuneate-obovate to suborbicular, rounded or retuse at apex, 

 thick, glabrous or nearly so ; flowers white, very fragrant, in dense fascicles, 

 the pedicels 6 to 10 mm. long. 



10. Bumelia socorrensis T. S. Brandeg. Zoe 5: 106. 1901. 

 Socorro Island. 



Spiny shrub ; leaves oblong-obovate, rounded at apex, cuneate at base, 

 sparsely brown-sericeous when young but soon glabrate, thin ; flowers few, 

 the pedicels 3 to 4 mm. long; fruit ellipsoid, 12 to 14 mm. long, 8 mm. thick. 



11. Bumelia laetevirens Hemsl. Biol. Centr. Amer. Bot. 2: 298. 1881. 

 Bumelia mexicana Engl. Bot. Jahrb. Engler 12: 519. 1890. 

 Achras oUvacea Sess§ & Moc. Fl. Mex. 91. 1894. 



Bumelia palmeri Rose, Gard. & For. 7: 195. /. 35. 1894. 



Bumelia arborescens Rose, Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 1: 339. 1895. 



Sinaloa to Tamaulipas, Veracruz, Puebla, and Oaxaca ; type from Cordil- 

 lera of Oaxaca. 



Tree, sometimes 16 meters high, with broad spreading dense crown, the bark 

 thick, dark, irregularly furrowed ; branchlets often spinose ; leaves slender- 

 petiolate, oblong to elliptic or broadly 'ovate, 5 to 10.5 cm. long, 2.5 to 5.5 cm. 

 wide, rounded to subacute at apex, obtuse or acute at base, bright green, 

 glabrous and lustrous above, paler beneath, and when young densely sericeous ; 

 flowers white, sweet-scented, in dense fascicles; fruit globose or oval, 1 to 

 1.5 cm. long, depressed at apex, black ; seeds rounded, 8 to 10 mm. long, brown, 

 very lustrous. "Coma" (Tamaulipas); " tempixtle " (Oaxaca, Veracruz, Ja- 

 lisco); " tempixquiztli," " tempesquistle," " tempizquixtli," " tempizquiztle " 

 (Oaxaca, Veracruz, Puebla, Jalisco) ; "tempixle" (Oaxaca, Reko) ; " tilapo " 

 (Oaxaca, Veracruz. Jalisco); " cupia," " bebelama " (Sinaloa); " tempes- 

 chitle," "tilzapotl," "tempextle" (8ess6 cG Mocifw). 



The fruit is said to yield a kind of " chicle." It is eaten either fresh or 

 dried, and is often seen in the markets. The imnlature fruits are pickled in 

 vinegar and salt, like olives. The ripe fruit is sweet and mucilaginous. 



The tree is described by Hernandez under the name " tempixquiztli." He 

 states that a decoction of the leaves was dropped into the ears and nostrils 

 to allay pain, and that the leaves were heated and applied to the teeth for 

 the same purpose, as well as to harden the gums. 



12. Bumelia persimilis Hemsl. Biol. Centr. Amer. Bot. 2: 298. 1881. 

 Veracruz ; type from region of Orizaba. 



Tree ; leaves short-petiolate, elliptic-oblong, 5 to 9 cm. long, obtuse at base 

 and apex, bright green and glabrous above, brown-sericeous beneath when 

 young ; flowers in dense fascicles, the pedicels 6 to 10 mm. long. 



