SAPOTACE.E 813 



pedicels '-!' in length and coated like the calyx with rufous silky pubescence, in many- 

 flowered crowded fascicles; calyx ovoid, with oblong lobes; appendages of the corolla large, 

 ovate, acute, crenate, shorter than the ovate staminodia about as long as the lobes of the 



corolla; ovary narrow-ovoid, gradually contracted into an elongated style. Fruit ripening 

 and falling in the autumn, short -oblong to ellipsoid, i'-f ' in length; flesh sweet and edible; 

 seed oblong, short-pointed at apex, \'-\' long. 



A tree, 20-30 high, with a trunk occasionally 5 '-6' in diameter, straight spreading flexi- 

 ble tough branches unarmed or armed with straight stout rigid spines sometimes 1' in 

 length, and slender branchlets coated when they first appear with silky pale pubescence 

 often tinged with red and soon rusty brown, becoming glabrous before winter, and then 

 dark red and slightly roughened by occasional minute dark lenticels; or often a shrub only 

 a few feet high. Winter-buds minute, subglobose, with imbricated ovate scales rounded 

 at apex and clothed with rusty brown tomentum. Bark of the trunk thick, brown tinged 

 with red, and divided irregularly by deep fissures into narrow flat reticulate ridges covered 

 with minute appressed scales. Wood heavy, hard, close-grained, light brown streaked 

 with white, with lighter colored sapwood. 



Distribution. Dry sandy soil; South Carolina (Saint Helena Island and Bluffton, Beau- 

 fort County), southward in the coast region of Georgia and east Florida to Cape Canaveral 

 and through the interior of the peninsular to Cedar Keys on the west coast; near Bain- 

 bridge, Decatur County, southwestern Georgia. 



2. Bumelia lanuginosa Pers. Gum Elastic. Chittam Wood. 



Leaves oblong-obovate, rounded and often apiculate at apex and gradually narrowed at 

 base, coated when they unfold with pale ferrugineous tomentum dense on the lower and 

 loose on the upper surface, and at maturity thin and firm, dark green and lustrous above, 

 more or less lanuginose below with rusty brown or silvery white (var. albicans Sarg.) hairs, 

 l'-2|' long and 5' f' wide; falling irregularly during the winter; petioles slender, rusty 

 brown or pale pubescent, |'-f' in length. Flowers opening in summer on hairy pedicels |' 

 in length, in 16-18-flowered fascicles; calyx ovoid, with ovate rounded lobes coated on the 

 outer surface with ferrugineous or pale tomentum and rather shorter than the tube of the 

 corolla; appendages of the corolla small, ovate and acute; staminodia ovate, acute, re- 

 motely and slightly denticulate, as long as the corolla-lobes; ovary abruptly contracted 

 into a slender elongated style. Fruit on a slender drooping stalk ripening and falling in 

 the autumn, oblong or slightly obovoid, \' long, with thick flesh; seed short-oblong, 

 rounded at apex, about \' in length. 



A tree, often 40-50 high, with a tall straight trunk l-2 in diameter, short thick rigid 



