156 SAPOTACEAE. 



rosy open nearly sessile bell-shaped gamopetalous flowers ; and 



small rounded many-seeded capsules. 



Leaves oblanceolate, pointed. P. barbulata. 



Family SAPOTACEAE. Sapodilla Family. 

 A chiefly tropical family members of which yield gutta 

 percha, a number of tropical fruits, chicle, etc. : scarcely useful 

 in planting. 



BUMELIA. False Buckthorn. 



Deciduous shrubs or small trees armed with axillary more 

 or less leafy thorns; with pale hard wood with occasional small 

 ducts along the beginning of the season's growth, very numer- 

 ous minute ducts forming a coarse netted pattern in the sum- 

 mer wood, and very fine medullary rays ; moderate roundish 

 twigs, woolly when young ; roundish homogeneous pale pith ; 

 alternate somewhat raised crescent-shaped leaf-scars with 3 

 bundle-traces ; no stipule-scars ; small ovoid sessile solitary buds 

 with several exposed scales ; simple rather oblanceolate moder- 

 ate short-stalked leaves often clustered on short spurs ; small 

 perfect gamopetalous long-stalked flowers clustered on the spurs, 

 and small i-seeded berry-like fruit. 



Leaves raised-veiny beneath, glabrous, like flowers. B. lycioides. 

 Leaves hairy beneath, like flowers and pedicels. B. lanuginosa. 



Family EBENACEAE. Ebony Family. 



A chiefly tropical family yielding ebony and other hard 

 woods, the Japanese persimmon, etc. : scarcely of decorative use. 



DIOSPYROS. Persimmon. 



Deciduous shrubs or moderate-sized trees with hard brown- 

 ish or blackening wood with small diffused ducts, numerous fine 

 transverse lines of wood-parenchyma and very fine medullary 

 rays ; rather slender roundish twigs ; somewhat angled 

 spongy pith; alternate often 2-ranked somewhat raised half- 

 round leaf-scars with i crescent-shaped bundle-trace ; no stipule- 

 scars ; solitary sessile ovoid buds with about 3 exposed scales ; 

 rather large simple entire stalked leaves ; small cup-shaped pale 



