68 SAPOTACE^). Bumelia. 



tropical America) ; with very hard wood, small white flowers fascicled in the axils 

 of the leaves, in summer, and a black cherry -like fruit. Axils often spiny: 

 therefore in S. States popularly called Buckthorn. Leaves in ours mostly 

 deciduous, and staminodia nearly as large as the proper corolla-lobes. 



# Pedicels, calyx, and lower face of the leaves clothed with silky or somewhat tomentose pubes- 

 cence; the upper face of the leaves finely venulose-retieulated : pedicels longer than the short 

 petioles : fruit 4 or 5 lines long. oval. 



B. t6nax, 'Willd. Shrub or small tree, 12 to 30 feet high, with divergent branches : 

 pubescence silky and close-pressed, yellowish or at first whitish, shining : leaves from 

 oblanceolate or spatulate to cuneate-obovate, obtuse (1-J- to 1\ inches long) : fascicles very 

 many-flowered: staminodia ovate. — "Willd. Spec. i. 1085; Nutt. Sylv. iii. 39, t. 92. 

 B. clirysophylloid.es, Pursh, Fl. i. 155. B. reclinata, Chapm. Fl. 275 % Sideroxylon tertax, 

 L. Mant. 48. S. sericeum, Walt. Car. 100. S. chrysophylloides, Michx. Fl. i. 123. Chryso- 

 phyllum Carolinense, Jacq. Obs. iii. t. 54. — Sandy soil, coast of N. Carolina to Georgia. 

 B. lanuginosa, Pers. Shrub or tree, sometimes even 40 feet high, less spiny ; the 

 pubescence looser, more tomentose, and not shining : leaves from oblong-obovate to 

 cuneate-obovate : fascicles 6-18-flowered : staminodia obscurely denticulate : otherwise in 

 the most eastern forms very like the foregoing ; in the western with paler or sparser down 

 to the leaves, or this partially deciduous in age so as to approach the next. — Syn. i. 237 ; 

 Pursh, 1. c. B. tomentosa, lanuginosa, & oblongifolia (Nutt. Gen.), A.DC. I.e. B. oblongifolia 

 & B. ferruginea, Nutt. Sylv. 1. c. 33. B macrocarpa, Nutt. Sylv. iii. 37, must be this or the 

 preceding. B. arborea (not Texana, as in ed. 1), Buckley, Proc. Acad. Philad. 1861, 461, 

 a glahrate and thin-leaved form. Sideroxylon tenax, Walt. 1. c. S. lanuginosnm, Michx. 

 Fl. i. 1 22. — Woods, Georgia and Florida to S. Illinois and W. Texas. — The Western 

 forms [B. oblongifolia, Nutt., B. arborea, Buckley) are less pubescent, and in the drier dis- 

 tricts pass into 



Var. rigida. More spiny, the coriaceous leaves little over inch long, from obovate to 

 cuneate-oblanceolate : seeds sometimes narrower at base and mottled. — B. spinosa, Watson, 

 Proc. Am. Acad. xi. 112, not DC. 1 B. pauciflora, Engelm. in distrib. Pringle. — S. Texas 

 ( Wright, Palmer) to S. Arizona, Pringle, Lemmon. (Adj. Mex.) 



# * Pedicels and calyx glabrous : leaves nearly glabrous or soon becoming so, finely venulose- 

 retieulated, thinnish. 



B. lycioides, Pers. Shrub or low tree : leaves from oblanceolate to oblong-obovate, 

 lucid, 1 to 5 inches long, lower face sometimes whitish-pubescent when young : fascicles 

 very many-flowered, about the length of the petioles : -staminodia ovate, obscurely denticu- 

 late : fruit short^ovoid, 3 to 5 lines long. — Syn. i. 237 ; Gasrtn. f . Carp. iii. 127, t. 202, f. 5 ; 

 Loud. Arb. t. 1016; Nutt. Sylv. iii. t. 91. Sideroxylon lycioides, L. (excl. hab.); Michx. 

 Fl. ii. 122. S. decandrum, L. Mant. 481 S. lozve, Walt. 1. c. — Low grounds, E. Virginia 

 and S. Illinois to Florida and Texas. 



B. reclinata, "Vent. Low shrub, decumbent or spreading, spiny: leaves an inch or less 

 long, cuneate-spatulate or obovate, obtuse or retuse : flowers commonly fewer. — Choix, 

 t. 22. B. lycioides, var. reclinata, ed. 1. Sideroxylon reclinatum, Michx. Fl. i. 122. — Coast 

 of Georgia and E. Florida. 



* * # Glabrous throughout: leaves thicker, small, with only obscure veins. 

 B. angustif 61ia, Nutt. Shrub or small tree : leaves from spatulate or linear-oblanceolate 

 to broadly obovate-cuneate, very obtuse, fleshy-coriaceous : fascicles few-many-flowered : lan- 

 ceolate appendages to the corolla and ovate-lanceolate staminodia acute, denticulate : fruit 

 oblong-oval, 6 to 9 lines long, edible: seed oblong. — Sylv. iii. 38, t. 93; Radlk. in Sitz. 

 Acad. Bavar. xix. 481. B. parvifolia, Chapm. Fl. 275, not A.DC. B. reclinata, Torr. Bot. 

 Mex. Bound. 109, not Vent. B. cuneata, ed. 1, not Swartz. — Shores of Florida and S. E. 

 Texas. (Adj. Mex.) "» 



5. MlMUSOPS, L. (Formed of fj,ifiu>, an ape, and o\j/is, appearance, but 

 the likeness is not apparent.) — Trees of the tropics; with coriaceous leaves, 

 having slender and inconspicuous transverse veins and minutely reticulated vein- 



