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5. BUMELIA Sw. Prodr. 49. 1788. 



Shrubs or trees, the branches often spinescent, the ■u-ood very hard. 

 Leaves sometimes clustered at the nodes. Flowers small, pedicelled, green or 

 white, fascicled in the axils. Calyx deeply 5-parted, the sepals unequal. Corolla 

 5-lobed, with a pair of lobe-like appendages at each sinus, its tube short. 

 Stamens 5, inserted near the base of the corolla-tube; anthers sagittate. 

 Staminodia 5, petaloid. Ovary 5-celled; style filiform. Berry small, the peri- 

 carp fleshy, enclosing a single erect seed. Seed shining, the hilum at the base. 

 [Greek, ox (large) ash.] About 35 species, natives of America. Type species: 

 Bumelia retusa Sw. 



Leaves narrow, linear to spathulate, 2-10 mm. wide, wider 



only on shoots: fruit oblong-cylindric. 1. B. angnstlfolia. 



Leaves obovate to oblanceolate, 1-4 cm. wide, frui't globose 

 to ovoid. 

 Pedicels little if at all longer than the petioles : leaves obo- 

 vate or oblanceolate, or on shoots suborbicular. 2. B. loranthifoJia. 

 Pedicels much longer than the petioles ; leaves spathulate 



to oblanceolate. 3. B. hahamensis. 



1. Bumelia angustifdlla Nutt. Sylv. 3: 38, t. 93. 1849. 



Bumelia Eggersii Pierre in Urban, Symb. Ant. 5: 146. 1904. 



A glabrous shrub or small tree, reaching a maximum height of about 8 m. 

 Leaves linear to spatulate, or those of shoots obovate, 2-4 cm. long, mostly 

 obtuse at the apex, narrowed at the base, short-petioled; fascicles few-many- 

 flowered; pedicels 3-6 mm. long; sepals ovate, about 2 mm. long, obtuse, the 

 inner wider than the outer; corolla-lobes orbicular, erose-denticulate, the lance- 

 olate appendages acuminate; staminodia ovate to ovate-lanceolate, 2 mm. long, 

 erose; fruit oblong to oblong-cylindric, 1-2 cm. long, purple-black. 



Palmetto-lands, coastal thickets, borders of salinas, Great Bahama, Cat Cay, 

 Andros, New Providence, and Rose Island : — Florida ; Cuban Cays. Recorded by 

 Mrs. Northrop and by Coker as B. microphyUa Griseb. Narrow-lbaved Bu^ielia. 



2. Bumelia loranthifolia (Pierre) Britton, Bull. X. Y. Bot. Gard. 3: 447. 



1905. 



Bumelia retusa loranthifolia Pierre in Urban, Symb. Ant. 5: 145. 1904. 



A shrub, 1-3 m. high, or sometimes straggling, or a tree up to 8 m. high, 

 the young twigs densely brown-tomentulose. Leaves obovate or oblanceolate, 

 coriaceous, 1-5 cm. long, glabrous and shining above, brown-tomentulose be- 

 neath when young, becoming glabrous, rounded or somewhat retuse at the apex, 

 cuneate at the base, the petioles 2-5 mm. long; pedicels as long as the petioles 

 or a little longer; sepals suborbicular, 2-3 mm. long, the outer ones tomentu- 

 lose; corolla about twice as long as the sepals, its lobes about as long as the 

 tube; staminodia lanceolate; fruit globose, oblong or ovoid, 6-9 mm. in diam- 

 eter, black. 



Coppices, pine-lands, white-lands and scrub-lands, throughout the archipelago 

 from Abnco and Great Bahama to Inagua, Mariguana. Cotton Cay and the Anguilla 

 Isles. Endemic. Referred by Ilitchcock and by Dolley to B. retusa Sw. ; recorded 

 by Mrs. Northrop as B. ctthcnsis Griseb. Wild Saffron. Milk-berry. 



3. Bumelia bahamensis Britton, Bull. N. Y. Bot. Gard. 3: 447. 1905. 



A shrub with slender puberulous twigs, related to B. loranthifolia. Leaves 

 spatulate-oblanceolate, coriaceous, revolute-margined, 8 cm. long or less, 1.5- 

 2.5 cm. wide, rounded at the apex, narrowly cuneate at the base, dull green and 

 glabrous above, densely brown-tomentulose beneath, rather strongly pinnately 

 veined, the veins ascending at a narrow angle; petioles stout, 5 mm. long or 



