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of the lower surface of the leaf-blades and inflorescence spar~ 
ingly pubescent. Stem clothed with a reddish-brown bark ; 
leaves stiff; blades spatulate or oblong-oblanceolate, rounded 
and often slightly apiculate at the apex, slightly revolute, 
usually acuminate or cuneately narrowed at the base, the 
nerves prominent and reticulate on the pale under surface, 
cels slender, much thickened toward the apex; sepals sub- 
orbicular, about 2 mm. long, the inner slightly broader than 
the outer; corolla-lobes suborbicular, a little broader than 
about 1.5 mm. in diameter; appendages lanceolate, 
rather obtuse; staminodia ovate-lanceolate obtuse or acutish, 
less than 2 mm. long: ovary hairy; berries elliptic, 1-1.3 
mm. long, often tipped by the persistent style; seeds subglo- 
bose, slightly longer than thick. 
In dry soil, western and southern Texas. Spring and 
summer. 
8. Bumeiia Texana Buckl. 
Bumelia Texana Buckl. Bull. Torr. Club, 10: go. 1883. 
A rigid somewhat thorny shrub or small tree, several 
meters tall, glabrous or with a slight inconspicuous pubes- 
cence on the petioles, and midrib of the leaf-blades beneath. 
Leaves firm; blades leathery, oval or oblong, 2-3 cm. long 
rounded, truncate or retuse at the apex, hardly revolute, 
times cuneately narrowed at the base; petioles slender, 5-10 
mm. long ; fascicles few-flowered ; pedicels stoutish, 1-3 mm. 
long ; berries oblong or elliptic, about 1 cm. lon 
On the mountains near the lower crossing of the Pecos 
River, western Texas, 1876, Buck/y. 
Not recently collected; apparently a distinct species. 
g. BUMELIA LUCIDA 0. sp. 
A glabrous shrub, or small tree, 2-7 meters tall, with rigid 
thorny branches. Leaves numerous ; blades leathery, elliptic 
varying to elliptic-ovate or elliptic-oblanceolate, 2-5 cm. long, 
acute or obtuse at both ends, deep green shining and hardly 
reticulated above, paler dull and prominently reticulated 
beneath; petioles slender, 2-5 mm. long; fascicles rather 
many-flowered; pedicels glabrous, slender, 3-7 mm. long, 
very slightly if at all enlarged at the apex; sepals suborbicu- 
