168 SILVA OF NORTH AMERICA. SAPOTACER. 
species inhabit the United States; of these four are small trees and the fifth is a low shrub? of the 
south Atlantic coast region. : 
Bumelia produces hard heavy strong wood which in the North American species contains bands 
of numerous large open ducts which define the layers of annual growth and are connected by conspicu- 
ous branched groups of similar ducts presenting in cross-section a handsome reticulate appearance. 
It is not known to possess other valuable properties. 
The generic name is formed from Sovuedia, the ancient classical name of an Ash-tree. 
1 Bumelia reclinata, Ventenat, Choix, t. 22 (1803). — Persoon, Syn. Sideroxylon reclinatum, Michaux, Fl. Bor.-Am. i. 122 (1803).— 
i. 237.— Pursh, Fl. Am. Sept. i. 155.— Roemer & Schultes, Syst. Du Mont de Courset, Bot. Cult. ed. 2, ui. 302. 
iv. 496. — Elliott, Sk. i. 287.— Dietrich, Syn. i. 621.— Don, Gen. Bumelia lycioides, var. reclinata, Gray, Syn. Fl. N. Am ii. 68 
Syst. iv. 30. — Loudon, Arb. Brit. ii. 1193. — A. de Candolle, Prodr. (1878). — Sargent, Forest Trees N. Am. 10th Census U.S. ix. 
viii. 190. — Chapman, FV. 275. — Gray, Syn. Fl. N. Am. ed. 2, ii. 68. 103. 
SYNOPSIS OF THE NORTH AMERICAN ARBORESCENT SPECIES. 
Pedicels and calyx clothed with silky or tomentose pubescence. Leaves silky or tomentose-pubescent on the lower surface, 
venulose-reticulate on the upper. 
Leaves oblanceolate or spatulate-cuneate, coated on the lower surface with golden or ferrugine- 
ous pubescence. . ee ee ee ee ee eee ee ee ee we 1, BS TEN AX. 
Leaves oblong-obovate or cuneate-obovate, silky-pubescent on the lower surface . . . - . 2. B. LANUGINOSA. 
Pedicels and calyx glabrous. Leaves glabrous or nearly so. 
Leaves oblanceolate to obovate-oblong, finely venulose-reticulate, thin . . . . . . . . 9&. B. LYCIOIDES. 
Leaves spatulate or linear-oblanceolate to broadly obovate-cuneate, obtuse, coriaceous, obscurely 
venulose-reticulate 2. 2 1. 1 1 7 ee ee ee ee we ee ww we ee 64 Be ANGUSTIFOLIA. 
