376 FLORA OF TEXAS. 



2-lobed ; ovary S-celled. Woods and old fields. — A small 

 tree ; flowers greenish ; berry eatable when fully ripe. 



D. Texa^^\, Scheele. Leaves obovate, obtuse, sessile or 

 shortly petiolate, dark green above, paler below, and 

 densely tomentose ; corolla bell-shaped, clefts recurved ; 

 calyx about |- length of corolla; sepals recurved; flowers 

 aggregated or solitary. Flowers in March or April ; fruit 

 ripe in August. — A small tree or large shrub, growing in 

 clumps often ; /nnY dark brown or black when ripe; 

 sweet and juicy; some like it, others think it insipid. 

 Limestone hills, Central and Western Texas. 



75. SAPODILLA FAMILY. Order, Sapotace^. 



Trees or shncbs, with milky juice, alternate entire ex- 

 stipulate short-petioled leaves, and regular perfect (small) 

 flowers, commonly in sessile axillary clusters; calyx free 

 from the 3-12-celled ovary, 4-8-parted, persistent; corolla 

 hypogynous, 4-8-cleft, mostly with one or two appendages 

 between each lobe ; fertile stamens as many as the lobes of 

 the corolla and opposite them, alternating with as many 

 scale-like or petal-like sterile ones, inserted on the tube of 

 the corolla; anthers extrorse; ovules anatropous, single, 

 suspended from the central angle of each cell, or ascending 

 iTom its base ; fruit a drupe or berry ; seeds few ; albumen 

 fleshy or oily, or none ; embryo straight. 



Seeds without albumen. Sterile stamens entire. Ovary hairy Buhblia. 



BUMELIA, Swartz. 



Calyx 5-parted; corolla 5-cleft, with two appendages 

 between tlie lobes; stamens 5, alternating with a petal-like 

 sterile one; ovary 5-celled, hairy; berry ovoid, 1-seeded; 

 leaves oblong, narrowed into a petiole, deciduous. — Shrubs, 

 with hard wood, spiny; flowers wliite or greenish, clustered. 



B. LYCioiDES, Giert. Leaves 3'-4' long, obovate-oblong. 



