WOOTOlSr AND STANDLEY FLOEA OF NEW MEXICO. 495 



Type locality: James Peak, Colorado. 

 Range: Alberta to New Mexico. 



New Mexico: Taos Mountains; Santa Fe and Lag Vegas mountains. Summits of 

 mountainp, in the Arctic- Alpine Zone. 



Order ^1. EBENALES. 



111. SAPOTACEAE. Sapodilla Family. 



1. BUMELIA Swartz. Buckthorn. 



Low tree with rigid spreading branches; leaves alternate, simple, entire; flowers in 

 few-flowered axillary fascicles, perfect, 5-merous; calyx persistent; corolla white, 

 deciduous, the lobes longer than the tube; stamens 5, epipetalous; staminodia 5, 

 petaloid; ovary 5-celled; fruit drupelike. 



1. Bumelia rigida (A. Gray) Small, Bull. N. Y. Bot. Gard. 1: 444. 1900. 

 Bumelia lanuginosa rigida A. Gray, Syn. Fl. 2': 68. 1878. 

 Type locality: "S. Texas to S. Arizona." 

 Range: Western Texas to southern Arizona. 

 New Mexico: Dog Spring; Deer Creek. Dry hills, in the Upper Sonoran Zone. 



Order 42. OLE ALES. 



112. OLEACEAE. Olive Family. 



Trees, shrubs, or herbaceous perennials, with opposite (rarely alternate), simple or 

 pinnate, exstipulate leaves and regular, 2 to 4-parted, perfect, polygamous, or dioe- 

 cious flowers in panicles, corymbs, or fascicles; calyx usually small (sometimes want- 

 ing), of 4 or more sepals; corolla of 2 to 6 distinct petals or gamopetalous; stamens 

 2 to 4, adnate to the base of the corolla; ovary superior, 2-celled; fruit a capsule, 

 samara, berry, or drupe. 



KEY to the genera. 



Fruit fleshy, a small, bluish black drupe; flowers apetal- 



ous, polygamo-dioecious; good sized shrubs 1. Forestiera (p. 495). 



Fruit dry, a capsule or samara; flowers various; herbs, 

 trees, or shrubs. 

 Fruit a samara; flowers dioecious; trees with mostly 



pinnate leaves 2. Fraxinus (p. 496). 



Fruit a thin-walled capsule; flowers perfect; low, her- 

 baceous or suffrutescent plants with simple 

 leaves and bright yellow flowers. 

 Corolla rotate or campanulate; stamens exserted; 



filaments filiform • 3. Menodora (p. 497). 



Corolla salverform, with a long tube; stamens 



included, the anthers nearly sessile 4. Menodoropsis (p. 497). 



1. FORESTIERA Poir. Ironwood. 



Rather large shrubs with divaricately branching stems bearing broad simple leaves 

 and inconspicuous polygamo-dioecious flowers in lateral clusters; flowers appearing 

 before the leaves on stems of the previous year; calyx usually present but small; 

 corolla mostly wanting; stamens 2 to 4; fruit a blue black drupe. 



KEY to the species. 



Leaves glabrous 1. F. neomexicana. 



Leaves pubescent 2. F. pubescens. 



