C444) 
lar, about 2 mm. in diameter, the outer somewhat smaller 
than the inner; corolla-lobes suborbicular; appendages lan- 
ceolate, obtuse; staminodia ovate, 2 mm. long, sometimes 
inequilateral, obtuse ; berries mostly oval, about 7-8 mm. long. 
Louisiana: Feliciana, 1838; Carpenter, no. 19. 
eatherman, no. 95. 
Leiddell. 
Related to Bumelia lyctocdes but smaller in all its 
parts. The sepals are rather broader than long, instead of 
longer than broad as is the case in B. /yc/otdes, and the 
corolla-lobes usually subcordate at the base. The staminodia 
are abruptly contracted or subcordate at the base instead of 
cuneate and boat-shaped, and they are much less rigid. 
10. BUMELIA LYCIOIDES (L.) Gaertn. 
Stderoxylon lyctoides L. Sp. Pl. Ed. 2, 279. 1762. 
Bumelia lycioides Gaertn. Fr. et Sem. 3: 127, pl. 202. 
1805. 
A glabrous usually armed shrub, or small tree, reaching a 
height of 8 meters. Stem clothed with a gray bark; leaves 
numerous; blades thickish but barely leathery, oblong, elliptic 
or rarely oblanceolate, 4-12 cm. long, acute or acuminate or 
rarely rounded at the apex, pale green and prominently retic- 
ulate on both surfaces, narrowed into petioles which are 
5-12 mm. long; fascicles densely flowered; pedicels slender, 
7-10 mm. long, hardly enlarged at the apex; sepals oval, or 
orbicular-ovate, 2 mm. long, the inner somewhat broader than 
the outer; corolla-lobes longer than broad; appendages 
lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate; staminodia ovate, 2-2.5 m 
long, boat-like, obtuse, often keeled; ovary hairy; Recs 
oval, fully cm. long. 
In low or damp soil, Virginia to Illinois, south to Florida 
and Texas. Flowers in summer and matures its fruit in the 
fall. 
11. BuMELIA RIGIDA (A. Gray). 
Bumelia lanuginosa var. rigida A. Gray, Syn. Fl. N. A. 2: 
Part 1, Ed. 2. 1886 
A low tree with rigid spreading branches. Leaves nen 
ous; blades cuneate or oblong-cuneate, 1.5-3 cm. long, 
rounded or retuse at the apex, dark green and glabrous pe 
