XLVI. SAPOTA CEH: BUME'LIA. 623 
glabrous, paler beneath; the iower ones in fascicles. Flowers lateral, and 
axillary, scattered or crowded, sessile. Corolla greenish yellow. Fruit dotted 
with white, size of a plum, full of white milky juice. (Don’s Mill.) A low 
sub-evergreen tree. Morocco, in woods. Height 15 ft. to 20ft. against 
a wall; not half that height as a bush. Introduced in 1711. Flowers 
greenish yellow. 
Tt will stand our winters as a standard, but thrives best when planted 
against a wall. Horticultural Society’s Garden. 
Genus II. 
Lalla 
BUME‘LIA Swartz, Tue Bumenia. Lin, Syst. Pent&ndria Monogyn:.. 
Identification. Swartz Prod., p. 49.; Fl. Ind. Occ., 1. p. 493.; Don’s Mill., 4. p. 29. 
Synonymes. Achras sp. Lin., Poir.; Sideréxylon sp, Lam. and others ; Chrysophfllum sp. Audi. 
and others; Hochstamm, Ger. 
Derivaiion. From boumelia, the Greek name for the common ash. 
Gen, Char., §c. Calyx 5-parted. Corolla with a short tube, and a 5-parted 
limb, furnished with 2 scales at the base of each segment. Stamens 5, in- 
serted in the tube of the corolla, and opposite its segments, having as 
many membranous scales, or sterile filaments, alternating with them. Ova- 
rium 5-celled. Cells l-ovuled. Stigma simple. Drupe ovate, 1-seeded. 
Seed albuminous. (Don’s Mill.) 
Leaves simple, alternate, exstipulate, sub-evergreen ; scattered, entire. 
Flowers in axillary and lateral peduncles, usually 1-flowered, crowded in 
fascicles, whitish.— Trees, in British gardens shrubs; natives of South 
America. Common soil; and cuttings of the young wood in sand, under a 
hand-glass, 
%e@ 1, B. ryciéepes Gaertn. The Box-thorn-like 
Bumelia. 
identification. Gaertn. fil. Carp., 3. p- 127. t. 120. ; Don’s Mill., 4. p. 30. 
Synonymes. Sideréxylon /ycitides Du Ham. Arb. 2. p. 26C. t. 68.3; S. 
le‘ve Walt. Fl. Carol. p. 100.; Lyciéides sp. Lin. Hort, Cliff. p. 488. 
Engravings. Du Ham., 2. p. 260. t. 68.; and our fig. 1209., and jig. 1210. 
of natural size. 
Spec. Char., &c. Spiny. Leaves broad-lanceolate, blunt- 
f ish, tapering to the base, glabrous. 
Flowers in axillary fascicles. Spines 
subulate. Leaves 2 in. long, decidu- 
ous, a little silky while young. 
Flowers greenish white. Segments 
of corolla ? trifid : perhaps from the 
two scales inside each segment. 
(Don’s Mill.) A sub-evergreen shrub. 
Carolina, in shady woods. Height 
8 ft. to 10 feet. Introduced in 1758. 
Flowers greenish white. 
Scarcely injured by the winter of 
1837-8, in the Hort. Soc. Gard.; and 
from this, and also from the beauty of 
its foliage and flowers, deserving to be 
+ much more generally introduced. 
1209. B. lycidides. 1210. B. Lycidides. 
a 2, B. reciuina‘’ta Vent. The reclinate-branched Bumelia. 
Identifcation. Vent. Choix, t. 22.; Pursh Sept., 1. p. 155. ; Don’s Mill., 4. p. 30- 
rset Sideréxylon reclindtum Miche. Fl. Bor. ‘Amer. 1. p. 122. 
