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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 

 numerous minute ducts forming a coarse netted pattern in 

 the summer 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 ob 

 lanceolate moderate short-stalked leaves often clustered on 

 short spurs; small perfect gamopetalous long-stalked flowers 

 clustered on the spurs, and small 1-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 medul- 

 lary rays; rather slender roundish twigs; somewhat angled 

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

 round leaf-scars with 1 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 axillary polygamous gamopetalous flowers; and 

 large fleshy fruit with enlarged sepals at the base and con- 

 taining several large seeds. 

 Loosely hairy: leaves often cordate. D. virginiana. 



