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Florida, on the peninsula and the keys, also in the lower 
Rio Grande valley, Texas and Mexico. Flowers in Novem- 
ber and October, matures its fruit in the Spring. 
The peculiar distribution of Bumelia angustifolia indicates 
the probability of there being two distinct species involved, 
one in Florida and anotherin the Rio Grande valley, but with 
the exception of a few minor and apparently unsatisfactory 
characters, the Floridian and Texano-Mexican plants seem 
to constitute a single species. 
2. BUMELIA RUFOMENTOSA nl. sp. 
A thorny shrub, with densely and deep red tomentose 
twigs and petioles. Stems stout, rigid, spreading or ascend- 
ing, several dm. long, slightly zigzag; leaves firm; blades 
obovate or oval, 1.5-2 cm. long, obtuse or slightly retuse at 
the apex, more or less undulate, prominently reticulated, 
especially beneath, shining and becoming glabrous above, 
paler, dull and usually sparingly pubescent beneath with red 
hairs, on short slender petioles; fascicles many-flowered ; 
pedicels slender, 2-3 mm. long, gradually enlarged upward, 
like the calyx, pubescent with straggling hairs; sepals sub- 
orbicular, nearly 1.5 mm. broad, the inner slightly larger 
than the outer-corolla; lobes suborbicular, often slightly 
broader than lone epou I.5 mm. in diameter; appendages 
ovate or ovate-] late, acutish; staminodia ovate-lanceo- 
late, a ‘ttle over x mm. long, obtuse; berries subglobose, 
about 5 mm. in diameter. 
In pine woods, peninsular Florida. 
Tampa; May, 1876: Garber. (Type.) 
Sumpterville; June, 1881: Curtzss. 
3. BRUMELIA MICROCA An. Sp. 
A low shrub with zigzag branches and spreading thorn- 
armed twigs. Leaves firm; blades spatulate, oblanceolate or 
rarely oblong-obovate, rounded or acutish at the apex, lus- 
trous and finely reticulated above, cobwebby pubescent be- 
neath or glabrate in age, attenuate into slender petioles 2-6 
mm. in length ; clusters dense, on short scaly spurs; pedicels 
1-4 mm. long, rather thinly tomentose: sepals suborbicular, 
concave, I-I.5 mm. broad, tomentose or glabrous in age; 
corolla-lobes white, depressed orbicular, about 1.5 mm. broad, 
