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invariably found the large trunks to be hollow. The fruit is delicious 
and highly flavored. 
No. 186. Bumelia lycioides, Geert.—Iron-wood.—Kentucky and south- 
ward. The Bumelias are shrubs or small trees, of no special value. 
No. 187. Bumelia parvifolia, A. D C.—Iron-wood.—South Florida. 
No. 188. Bumelia lanuginosa, Pers.—Iron-wood.—Southern States. 
No. 189. Bumelia tenax, Willd.—Iron-wood.—Southern States. 
No. 190. Bumelia reclinata, Vent.—Iron-wood.—Texas and westward. 
THEOPHRASTACE ZL. 
No. 191. Jacquinia armillaris, L.—Currant-trees.—South Florida. A 
small tree of South Florida and the West Indies. The wood is curiously 
grained. 
MYRSINACE 23. 
No. 192. Myrsine Floridana, A. DC.—South Florida.—Mostly a shrub, 
rarely a small tree. 
No. 193. Ardisia Pickeringii, T. & G.—South Florida.—Mostly a shrub, 
but on the keys a small tree. It is an evergreen tree, with laurel-like 
leaves, and panicles of showy-white purple-tinged flowers. 
BIGNONIACE 2. 
No. 194. Catalpa bignonioides, Walt.—Catalpa.—Southern States. A 
tree well known in cultivation, and hardy as far north as latitude 41°. 
It is native in the Southern and Southwestern States and in Southern 
Illinois and Indiana. It attains a height of 50 or 60 feet, and a diameter 
of 14 to 2 feet. The leaves are large, and the flowers showy, and when 
in bloom the tree is extremely ornamental. The wood is light, but of 
a fine texture, and capable of receiving a fine polish. It is said to be 
very durable. 
No. 195. Chilopsis linearis, DC.—Texas and Arizona. Usually a 
shrub, but sometimes attaining a height of 25 feet. It has long willow- 
like leaves, and is very ornamental when in flower. 
No. 196. Tecoma radicans, Juss.—Trumpet-vine.—Southern States. 
This beautiful woody vine sometimes acquires a woody trunk of a foot 
in diameter or more. 
VERBENACEZ. 
No. 197. Citharexylum villosum, Jacq.—Fiddle-wood.—South Florida. 
Rarely a small tree, of no economic value. 
No. 198. Avicennia tomentosa, Jacq.—Black Mangrove.—South Flor- 
ida. This and the next species are called Black Mangrove, observed by 
Dr. Chapman at Cedar Keys and the Thousand Islands. They are 
low evergreen trees, forming impenetrable thickets on the muddy shores 
of the sea. 
_ No. 199. Avicennia oblongifolia, Chap.—Black Mangrove.—South 
Florida. 
Order BORRAGINACE 4. 
No. 200. Cardia bullata, L.—South Florida. 
No. 201. Hhretia Buerreria, L.—South Florida. 
No. 202. Ehretia elliptica.—Texas.—Mostly shrubby, but sometimes a 
tree 2 feet in diameter; fruit an orange-yellow berry, of the size of a 
pea; much liked by children and birds. The evergreen rough leaves 
are used to rub and destroy eruptions of the skin.—(Dr. Lindheimer.) 
