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long, ^4 '-I 1 /!/ wide. Flowers in the autumn in few or many 

 flowered fasicles. Fruit oblong, black, ripening in the spring. 

 Florida and the Keys and also in the Rio Grande Valley, 

 Texas and Mexico. The wood is heavy, coarse grained, not 

 strong, light brown, or orange colored. 



2. Bumelia lucida Small. Shining Bumelia. A small tree 

 20-30 high with stiff thorny branches and smooth bark. 

 Leaves elliptic pointed or blunt at the apex, l'-2' long, leath- 

 ery, entire, smooth, dark green and lustrous above, paler and 

 with prominent netted veins beneath. Fasicles many flow- 

 ered. Fruit mostly oval. 



In woods of Louisiana and eastern Texas. 



3. Bumelia lycioides (L.) Gaertner. Southern Buckthorn. 

 A small tree 25 -30 high with short trunk, stout branches, 

 and thin, grayish, smooth bark. Leaves oblong elliptic, 

 l%'-4' long, %'-l% r wide, leathery, mostly pointed at the 

 apex, tapering at base, pale green with prominent netted 

 veins. Flowers in many flowered fasicles appearing in the 

 spring. Fruit an oval berry, ripening in the autumn. Illi- 

 nois south to Florida and Texas. Wood heavy, hard, weak, 

 close grained, brown or yelloAV. 



4. Bumelia rigida (A. Gray) Small. Arizona Buckthorn. 

 A small tree 25 high with short trunk, flaky, red brown bark 

 and stout stiff thorny branches. Leaves thick, leathery, 1' 

 long, 14' wide, cuneate or oblong, smooth above, wooly be- 

 neath. Flowers in few flowered fasicles. Fruit oblong-oval 

 to oval, black. 



Along streams Texas to Arizona and northern Mexico. 

 Wood hard, close grained, weak, brown or yellow. 

 Texas, Arizona, and Northern Mexico. 



5. Bumelia lanuginosa (Michaux) Persoon. Wooly Buck- 

 thorn. A medium sized tree 50-60 high with straight trunk, 

 fissured bark, and short stiff branches. Leaves oblong-ovate 

 or wedge-obovate, l'-2%' long, %'-%' wide, entire margined, 

 dull dark green above, rusty wooly beneath. Flowers in fasi- 

 cles of 16-18. Fruit oval, obovoid-oblong,, black with thick 

 flesh. 



Missouri, Kansas, Florida, and Texas. Wood heavy, weak, 



