XLVI. SAFOTA CEJE: 5UMK LIA. 



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

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

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

 sub-evergreen tree. Morocco, in woods. Height 15 ft. 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, hut thrives best when planted 



against a wall. 



Horticultural Society's Garden. 



Genus II. 



B\jME'\AK Swartz. The Bumelia. Lin. Si/st. Pentdndria MonogynTr . 



Identification. Swartz Prod., p. 4". ; Fl. Ind. Occ, 1. p. 493. ; Don's Mill., 4. p 20. 



Si/noni/vies. >4'chras sp Lin., Pair. ; Sideroxylon sp. Lam. and others ; Chrysoph^Uum sp. ylubl. 



and others; Hochstamin, Ger. 

 Derivuliun. From bouniclia, the Greek name for the common ash. 



Gen. Char., S^c. 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. Drufe ovate, 1-seeded. 

 Seed albuminous. (Don^s Mill.) 



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

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

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

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

 hand-slass. 



Spec. Char., S( 



^ 1, i?. ivcioi^DES GcErtn. The Box-thorn-like 

 Bumelia. 



identification. G.Trtn. fil. Carp., 3. p. 127. t. 120. ; Don's Mill., 4. p. 30. 

 Sijnoniimes. Siderdxvlon 'yciiiides Du Ham. Arb. 2. p. 260. t. 68. ; S. 



Ia;'ve Walt. Fl. Carol, p. 100.; Lyciiiides sp. Lin. Hart. Cliff: ^. 488. 

 Enrnriiigs. Du Ham., 2. p. 260. t. 68. ; and our fig. 1209., and Jig. 1210. 



of natural size. 



Spiny. 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 

 8 ft. to 1 feet. Introduced in 1758. 

 Flowers greenish white. 



Scai'cely 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. /vciBiiles. 



B. RECLiNA^TA Vcnt. The rec\ina.te-b7-a}iclied Bumelia. 



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

 ti/'ivnr/me. Siderdxylon reclinatum Mic/ix. Fl. Bar. Amer. 1. p. 122. 



