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slightly ee short-petioled ; pedicels stout, ae mm. long: 
berries globose or oblong-globose, 11-13 mm. in diameter, 
black ; ceeds pee mm. in diameter, pale, enor ard shining, 
variegated. 
In sandy soil, Florida. 
Tampa, October, 1877; Garber. (Type.) 
A species of remarkably rigid and stout habit, interesting 
on account of its spreading or procumbent stems or branches 
which trail more or less extensively in the sand, and its very 
large fruit which excels in size that of any of our native 
species. 
6. BuMELIA CASSINIFOLIA Nl. sp. 
A glabrous or glabrate commonly armed shrub, or small 
tree, 5-10 meters tall, the twigs and the lower surfaces of the 
leaves puberulent. Stem rarely more than 16 cm. thick, 
clothed with a reddish brown bark; leaves numerous ; ees 
thinnish, oblong-obovate, or oblanceolate, 2-10 cm 
rounded or retuse at the apex, undulate, narrowly | fe 
dark green above, somewhat paler beneath, the main nerves 
slightly prominent beneath; petioles slender varying from 8— 
12 mm. in length; fascicles many-flowered; pedicels gla- 
brous, 2-5 mm. long, slightly enlarged upward; sepals sub- 
orbicular, 2 mm. lon the inner with a broad scarious 
margin; corolla-lobes cuborbicalar r, I.5-2 mm. in diameter, 
often erose-toothed ; appendages lanceolate or ovate-lanceo- 
late, crisped or erose; staminodia ovate, about 2 mm. long, 
obtuse, serrulate; berries oval or globose-oval, I-1.5 cm. 
long. 
In sandy soil, Louisiana. 
Opelousas. May and August 1883; Letterman. 
(Type. 
A relative of Bumela reciinata but erect and much taller ; 
differing also in the erose-toothed petals and the serrulate 
boat-shaped staminodia. The appendages of the corolla are 
obtuse, not acute as in B&B. reclinata. 
7. BUMELIA MONTICOLA Buckl. 
Bumelia monticola Buckl. Bull. Torr. Club, 10: gr. 
1883. 
A straggling thorny shrub 1-3 meters tall, the petioles, nerves 
