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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 ^c. 



547. BuMELiA DENTicuLATA Raf. shrubby 

 inermous? branchlets smooth rugose, leaves 

 petiolate ^hin, broad oval elliptic, base acute, 

 end subacuminate, margin remotely denticulate 

 smooth on both sides, flowers sohtary 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 

 !eaVes 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 



