68 SAPOTACE^. Bumelia. 



tropical America) ; with very hard wood, small white flowers fascicled in the axils 



of the leaves, in summer, and a black cherry -like fruit. Axils often spiny : 



therefore in S. States popularly called Buckthorn. Leaves in ours mostly 



deciduous, and staminodia nearly as large as the proper corolla-lobes. 



# Pedicels, calyx, and lower face of the leaves clothed with silky or somewhat tomentose pubes- 

 cence; the upper face of the leaves finely venulose-reticulated': pedicels longer than the short 

 petioles : fruit 4 or 5 lines long, oval. 



B. tenax, "Willd. Shrub or small tree, 12 to 30 feet high, with divergent branches : 

 pubescence silky and close-pressed, yellowish or at first whitish, shining: leaves from 

 oblanceolate or spatulate to cuneate-obovate, obtuse (1^ to 2\ inches long) : fascicles very 

 many-flowered: staminodia ovate. — Willd. Spec. i. 1085; Nutt. Sylv. iii. 39, t. 92. 

 B. chrysophylloides, Pursh, Fl. 1. 155. B. reclinata, Chapm. Fl. 275? Sideroxylon tenax, 

 L. Mant. 48. S. sericeum, Walt. Car. 100. S. chrysophylloides, Michx. Fl. 1. 123. Chryso- 

 phyllum Carolinense, Jacq. Obs. iii. t. 54. — Sandy soil, coast of N. Carolina to Georgia. 



B. lanuginosa, Pers. Shrub or tree, sometimes even 40 feet high, less spiny ; the 

 pubescence looser, more tomentos^, and not shining : leaves from oblong-obovate to 

 cuneate-obovate : fascicles 6-18-flowered : staminodia obscurely denticulate : otherwise in 

 the most eastern forms very like the foregoing ; in the western with paler or sparser down 

 to the leaves, or this partially deciduous in age so as to approach the next. — Syn. i. 237 ; 

 Pursh, 1. c. B. tomentosa, lanuginosa, & ohlongifolia (Nutt. Gen.), A.DC. 1. c. B. oblongifolia 

 & B.ferruginea, Nutt. Sylv. 1. c. 33. B. Texana, Buckley in Proc. Acad. Pliilad. 1862. Sider- 

 oxylon tenax? Walt. 1. c. 5. lanuginosum, Michx. Fl. i. 122. — Woods, Georgia and Florida 

 to Texas, S. W. Illinois, and Missouri ; the western form being B. ohlongifolia, Nuttall. 



Var. macrocarpa. Low and depressed : leaves less than an inch long, glabrate 

 with age : " fruit edible, as large as a small date." — B. macrocarpa, Nutt. Sylv. 1. c. — Sand 

 .hills of the Altamaha, Georgia, Nuttall. To be rediscovered. 



* * Pedicels and calyx glabrous, and leaves nearlj' or quite so throughout. 

 ++ Leaves finely venulose-reticulated, rather thin. 



B. lycioides, Gaertn. Shrub or low tree : leaves from oblanceolate to obovate-oblong 

 and on vigorous shoots ovate-lanceolate (1^ to 6 inches long), reticulated; the primary 

 veins numerous, prominent, and obliquely transverse ; the lower face not rarely whitish- 

 pubescent when young : fascicles very many-flowered, about the length of the petioles : 

 staminodia ovate, obscurely denticulate: fruit short-ovoid, 3 to 5 lines long. — Gaertn. f. 

 Carp. Suppl. 3. 127, t. 120 ; Loud. Arb. 1. 1016 ; Nutt. Sylv. 1. c. t. 91. Sideroxylon lycioides, 

 L. (excl. hab.) ; Michx. 1. c. S. decandrum, L. Mant. 48 ?. S. lave, Walt. 1. c. — Thickets, in 

 low grounds, coast of Virginia and Illinois to Florida and Texas. Staminodia (as large as 

 proper lobes of the corolla) sornetimes with a pair of minute scales at their base. — Smaller- 

 leaved forms in Florida and Louisiana pass into 



Var. reclinata. Spreading or depressed shrub : leaves half inch to an inch or more 

 in length, oblong with more or less cuneate base : branches very spiny. — B. reclinata, 

 Vent. Choix. t. 22. Sideroxylon reclinatum, Michx. Fl. i. 122. — St. Mary's River, S. E. 

 Georgia (Michaux), and E. Florida, Garber, &c. 



-h- -i— Leaves thicker, coriaceous, less veiny; veinlets obscurely if at all reticulated. 



B. cuneata, Swartz. Shrub or small tree, glabrous : leaves from spatulate or linear- 

 oblanceolate to broadly obovate-cuneate, very obtuse (half to an inch and a half long), 

 rather fleshy; the veins inconspicuous and strongly ascending: fascicles few-many- 

 flowered : lanceolate appendages to the corolla and the ovate-lanceolate staminodia nearly 

 equalling the proper lobes, acute, denticulate : fruit oblong-oval) edible, 6 to 9 lines long ; 

 the seed oblong. — Fl. Ind. Occ. i. 496 ; Griseb. Fl. W. Ind. 401 (but "berry obovoid-glo- 

 bose"). B. myrsinifolia, A.DC. L c. 192. B. parvifolia, (A.DC. I.e.?) Chapm. Fl. 275. 

 B. angustifolia, Nutt. Sylv. iii. 38. t. 93. B. reclinata, Torr. Mex. Boimd. 109. — S. Florida 

 from Key West to Tampa Bay; lower part of the Rio Grande, Texas. (W. Ind., Mex.) 



5. MIMUSOPS, L. (Formed of p/iw, an ape, and nxpig, appearance, but 

 the likeness is not apparent.) — Trees of the tropics; with coriaceous- leaves, 

 having slender and inconspicuous transverse veins and minutely reticulated vein- 



