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and Statesboro; irwin: near Fitzgerald. Fl. April. 

 Virginia to Florida, Arkansas, and Texas, in the coastal plain. 

 MOHRODENDRON Britton, Gard. & For. 6:463. 1893. 

 M. dipterum (L.) Britton, 1. c. 



In hammocks ; rather rare, coffee, berrien. More common 

 in the upper third of the coastal plain, on sandy river-banks, 

 extending inland to Stewart County at least. Fl. spring. A 

 small tree. 

 South Carolina to West Florida and Louisiana, in the coastal 

 plain. 



SYMPLOCACEjE. 

 SYMPLOCOS L., Sp. PI. ed. 2. 747. 1763. 

 S. tinctoria (L.) L'Her., Trans. Linn. Soc. 1 : 176. 1791. 



Hammocks, bluffs, and rock outcrops, emanuel, tattnall, 



Montgomery, dooly, berrien. Fl. March- April. Only 



a shrub in our territory. Ranges nearly all over Georgia, 



but can hardly be called common. 



Widely distributed over the Eastern United States between 



latitudes 30 and 39 . 

 Leaf-anatomy described by Kearney, Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 

 5 :5°3-5°4- 190!- 



SAPOTACE.E. 

 BUMELIA Sw., Prodr. 49. 1788. 

 B. lanuginosa (Mx.) Pers., Syn. 1 : 237. 1805. 



coffee: Sand-hills of Seventeen Mile Creek; wilcox: Ham- 

 mock of House Creek. Pretty well distributed over South 

 Georgia, but not common. 

 South to South Florida, and west to Missouri, Kansas, and 

 Texas, mostly in the coastal plain. 

 B. reclinata Vent., Choix. 22. 1803. 



B. lycioides reclinata Gray, Syn. Fl. 2 : 68. 1878. 



tattnall: Sand-hills of Ohoopee River (185 1) and Rocky 



Creek; Montgomery: Very dry pine-barrens on both sides 



of the Oconee River near Mount Vernon and Ochwalkee. 



Fl. spring. 



Reported also from Florida and Louisiana (but not Alabama). 



