(441) 
rounded at the apex; appendages broadly lanceolate, 0.7 
mm. long; staminodia lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate about 1 
mm. long, barely acute: berries subglobose, § mm. in 
i ter. 
In sandy soil, peninsular Florida 
Gainsville; March and June, 1876: Garber. (Type.) 
Related to Bumelia reclinata, but smaller and more rigid 
The branchlets or twigs are more copiously armed with 
thorns, while the parts of the flower and the berries are 
smaller. The thin arachnoid pubescence on the lower sur- 
face of the leaf-blades and the pedicels, and the abbreviation 
of the latter are diagnostic characters. 
4. BUMELIA RECLINATA Vent. 
? Stderoxylon laeve Walt. Fl. Car. 100. 1788. 
Bumelia reclinata Vent. Choix, 22. 1803. 
A low decumbent or ascending armed glabrous shrub, 1-2 
meters tall, the spine-like branches often leafy and producing 
flowers. Stem commonly zigzag or somewhat twisted; 
leaves numerous; blades thinnish, oblanceolate ovate, obo- 
vate or spatulate, 2-5 cm. long, rounded or retuse at the apex, 
deep green and shining above, paler, and dull beneath, some- 
what prominently reticulate, narrowed into petioles, varying 
from 2 to 4 mm. in length; fascicles few-flowered ; pedicels 
glabrous, 3-5 mm. long, enlarged upward; sepals eine) 
ovate or orbicular-ovate, 1.8 mm. long ; berries oval, 6-7 m 
long. 
In sandy soil, Georgia to Florida and Louisiana. 
Georgia: Banks of the Ochlockonee River, Thomas- 
ville; Srzal/. 
Florida: Banks of the Chipola River, Jackson Co.: 
Chapman. 
Louisiana: Ha/e. 
5. BumMELIA MEGOCOCCA n. sp. 
An evergreen glabrous thorny shrub, with spreading or 
procumbent bra nches. Bark pale, raised in angular corky 
ridges which are broken by numerous lenticels; leaves few; 
blades leathery, obovate or oblong-oblanceolate, 1-3.5 cm 
long, obtuse or retuse at the apex, deep green and somewhat 
shining above, paler and prominently reticulated beneath, 
