XLVI. SAPOTACEJE I #UME V LIA. 



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glabrous, paler beneath ; the lower ones in fascicles. Flowers lateral, and 

 axillary, scattered or crowded, sessile. Corolla greenish yellow. Fruit dotted 

 with white, size of a plum, full of white milky juice. ("Don's Mill.) A low 

 sub-evergreen tree. Morocco, in woods. Height 15ft. to 20 ft. against 

 a wall ; not half that height as a bush. Introduced in 1711. Flowers 

 greenish yellow. 



It will stand our winters as a standard, but thrives best when planted 

 against a wall. Horticultural Society's Garden. 



GENUS II. 



Tit 





2?UME N LIA Swartz. THE BUMELIA. Lin. Syst. Pentandria Monogynia. 



Identification. Swartz Prod., p. 49. ; Fl. Ind. Occ., 1. p. 493. ; Don's Mill., 4. p. 29. 



Synonymcs. ^'chras sp. Lin., Pair. ; Sideroxylon sp. Lam. and others ; Chrysophyllum sp. Aubl. 



and others ; Hochstamm, Ger. 

 Derivation. From boumclia, the Greek name for the common ash. 



Gen. Char., fyc. Calyx 5-parted. Corolla with a short tube, and a 5-parted 

 limb, furnished with 2 scales at the base of each segment. Stamens 5, in- 

 serted in the tube of the corolla, and opposite its segments, having as 

 many membranous scales, or sterile filaments, alternating with them. Ova- 

 rium 5-celled. Cells 1-ovuled. Stigma simple. Drupe ovate, 1-seeded. 

 Seed albuminous. (Don's Mill.) 



Leaves simple, alternate, exstipulate, sub-evergreen ; scattered, entire. 

 Flowers in axillary and lateral peduncles, usually 1-flowered, crowded in 

 fascicles, whitish. Trees, in British gardens shrubs; natives of South 

 America. Common soil ; and cuttings of the young wood "in sand, under a 

 hand-glass. 



1. B. LYCIOI V DES Gcertn. 

 Bumelia. 



The Box-thorn-like 



Identification. Gaertn. fil. Carp., 3. p. 127. t. 120. ; Don's Mill., 4. p. 30. 

 Synonymes. Siderdxylon /ycioldes Du Ham. Arb. 2. p. 260. t. 68. ; S. 



Iffi've Wait. Fl. Carol, p. 100. ; Lyciiildes sp. Lin. Hort. Cliff: p, 488. 

 Engravings. Du Ham., 2. p. 260. t. 08. ; and our fig. 1209., and fig. 1210. 



of natural size. 



Spec. Char., 



1209. B. /vciSkles. 



Spin}'. Leaves broad-lanceolate, blunt- 

 ish, tapering to the base, glabrous. 

 Flowers in axillary fascicles. Spines 

 subulate. Leaves 2 in. long, decidu- 

 ous, a little silky while young. 

 Flowers greenish white. Segments 

 of corolla ? trifid : perhaps from the 

 two scales inside each segment. 

 (Don's Mill.) A sub-evergreen shrub. 

 Carolina, in shady woods. Height 

 8ft. to 10 feet. Introduced in 1758. 

 Flowers greenish white. 



Scarcely injured by the winter of 

 1837-8, in the Hort. Soc. Gard.; and 

 from this, and also from the beauty of 

 its foliage and flowers, deserving to be 

 much more generally introduced. 



1210. B./yci8ide. 



j* 2. B. RECLINA^TA Vent. The rcclmate-branehed Bumelia. 



Identification. Vent. Choix, t. 22. ; Pursh Sept., 1. p. 155. ; Don's Mill., 4. p. 30- 

 Synonyme. Sider6xylon reclinatum Michx. Fl. Bar. Amer. 1. p. 122. 



