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15 to 20 feet high, leaves smooth (so says Nut- 

 tal although Eaton calls them hairy beneath) 

 not so cuneate, branches thorny, flowers sub- 

 sessile 4* c * 



547. BUMELIA DENTICULATA Raf. shrubby 

 inermous ? branchlets smooth rugose, leaves 

 petiolate f hin, broad oval elliptic, base acute, 

 end subacuminate, margin remotely denticulate 

 smooth on both sides, flowers solitary on long 

 erect filiform pedicels, calix smooth, sepals 

 round from Florida, leaves 2 or 3 inches long 

 with a few remote obtuse teeth on the sides, 

 texture very thin, with veins rather than nerves 

 slightly reticulate, pedicels over one inch long, 

 stiff although filiform, flowers pretty large 

 smooth. A very distinct species. 



548. BUMELIA? SERRULATA Raf. shrubby 

 inermous, branchlets cinereous with white dots 

 leaves subopposite petiolate smooth, obovate 

 elliptical acute at both ends serrulate glauces- 

 cent beneath minutely veined reticulate with 

 some scattered hairs from Apalachian Mts. 

 of Alabama small shrub, leaves small pale 

 green, nearly glaucous beneath. Collected by 

 Lyons, my specimen of Collins herbal has no 

 flowers, but is labelled a new Bumelia, We 

 have thus at least 10 sp. of this Genus with the 

 6 already known, and I have nearly all in my 

 Herbarium ; but one requires correction, 2 or 

 3 sp. being perhaps blended under B. lanugi- 

 nosa. My specimens collected by Ware in 

 Florida have leaves elliptic obtuse or acute, 

 hairy rusty beneath like the branches, and flow- 

 ers thickly glomerate rufous hairy, is it a pe- 

 culiar sp. B. rufa ? Raf. while the B. lanugi- 

 nosa of Elliot and Authors, has leaves ovate 

 lanceolate tomentose beneath, a third var. is 



