OBLONG-LEAVED BUMELIA. 
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rounded clusters ; the peduncles simple, all of a length, and, 
as well as the calyx, quite smooth. The stamens are 5 in 
number, and about the length of the corolla. The leaves 
on the infertile branches are more decidedly lanceolate than 
the rest. The berries are oval, juicy, black when ripe, and 
about the size of small peas. A tree now in Bartram’s 
Botanic Garden, at Kingsessing, in rather an unfavourable 
shady situation, probably 40 years old or more, has 
attained the height of about 40 feet, but being slender, is 
not more than 8 inches in diameter ; it appears, however, 
as though it might attain a still larger growth, and is per- 
fectly hardy in this climate. 
Plate XCI. 
A branch of the natural size. a. A cluster of berries, b. The flower. 
OBLONG-LEAYED BUMELIA. 
BUMELIA oblongifolia, spinosa erecta, foliis lanceolato-oblongis obtusis 
basi attenuatis subtus molliter pilosis, pedunculis brevissimis calyci- 
busque villosis. Nutt. Gen. Amer. vol. 1, p. 135. 
This species, which becomes a tree 18 or 20 feet in 
height, is by far the most hardy of the genus, being indige- 
nous about the lead-mines in the vicinity of St. Louis, 
where the thermometer falls at times below zero. It is also 
not uncommon in Arkansas, in the shady alluvial forests of 
that stream, and it is met with on the borders of the Mis- 
sissippi as far down as Natchez. It was first noticed 
botanically by my late friend Mr. John Bradbury, F. L. S. 
