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Fruit over 9 mm. long. 
Leaf-blades 1-3.5 cm. long ; fruit over 10 mm. broad. 
5: megococca. 
Leaf-blades 4~10 cm. long ; fruit less than ro min. broad, 
Corolla-lobes erose-denticulate ; anne’ serru- 
Pcs eee eee 6. B. cassinifolia, 
s ety eis ; sepals pu- 
bes . monticola. 
Leaf-blades of an elliptic s broadest at the mae 
Pedicels and sepals pubescent. . Lexana. 
iy 
as 3mm. long; lobes as broad as nee so al blades 
not reticulated. 
Corollas 4 mm. long; lobes longer fen boa "reat blades 
copi pa reticulated. to. B. lyciotdes. 
Leaf-blades manifestly or copiously a beneath. 
cence woolly, not at all lustrous. 
f-blades cuneate, Aer i I-3em. long. 11. B&B. rigida. 
Leaf-blades not cuneate, mostly 4-10 cm. long. 
12. B. lanuginosa. 
Pubescence lustrous, white, becoming tawny, brown or coppery. 
13. B, fenax. 
BuMELIA ANGUSTIFOLIA Nutt. 
Bumelia angustifolia Nutt. Sylva, 3: 38, A/. 93. 1849. 
Bumelia reciinata Torr. Bot. Mex. Bound. Surv. tog. 
1853. Not Vent. 
Bumelia parvifora Chapm. Fl. S. States, 275. 1860. 
Not A. DC. 
Bumelia cuneata A. Gray, Syn. Fl. 2: 68. 1878. Not Sw. 
A res depressed shrub, or a small tree reaching a 
height of 8 meters. Stems sometimes 15 cm. in diameter ; 
leaves persistent; blades leathery, varying from narrowly ob- 
lanceolate-spatulate to obovate See Sie at the base, 
2-4 cm. long, entire, usually rounded at the apex, somewhat 
shining above, paler and dull beneath, shore petted fasci- 
cles few-flowered or many-flowered, sometim ense ; 
pedicels 3-6 mm. long, ha ee thickened nore sepals 
ovate, 2 mm. long, obtuse, the inner much broader than the 
outer; corolla-lobes suborbicilan, erose-denticulate ; appen- 
dages narrowly-lanceolate, acuminate; staminodia ovate or 
ovate-lanceolate, 2 mm. long, se or acute, erose-dentate ; 
berries oblong, 1.5-2 cm. long, fleshy, edible. 
