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RUSTY-LEAVED BUMELIA, 
The bark is rough and gray, and the wood very hard, 
tough, and foetid, indeed so much so, that it would pro- 
bably drive away insects from chests made of its wood. 
In its natural haggard state, near the lead mines, it is an 
ungraceful tree with numerous tortuous and flexuous 
branches. The young branchlets, as well as the petioles, 
are clothed with soft brownish-grey hairs. The leaves 
somewhat resemble those of B. lycioides, but they are 
larger, being 3 to 4 inches long by 1 to 1| wide, and more 
or less hairy beneath, even when adult. The flowering 
clusters are dense, the flowers numerous, on hairy pedun- 
cles scarcely longer than the ferruginously villous calyx, 
the segments of which are ovate and concave. The inner 
scales nearly equal with the corolla, are connivent and 
trifid, situated opposite to the stamens. Drupe fleshy, 
purple, at length blackish brown. 
RUSTY-LEAYED BUMELIA. 
BUMELIA ferruginea, inermis , foliis obovatis pubescentibus obtusis 
subtus ferrugineo-tomentosis , corymbis multifloris , calycibus peduncu - 
Usque rufo lanatis , floribus pentandris. 
Of this apparently very distinct species of Iron-wood, 
I know nothing more than the single imperfect specimen 
collected by Mr. Ware, in East Florida. The leaves in 
the spineless infertile branch are unusually wide, being 1J 
inches by inches in length, those on the flowering branch 
however, are much smaller. It is quite remarkable for 
the dense ferruginous pubescence on the under side of the 
