SILKY-LEAVED BUMELIA. 
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leaves, young branches and calyx. Its nearest affinity is 
at the same time to the preceding species. 
SILKY-LEAVED BUMELIA. 
BUMELIA tenax, erecta , ramis junioribus spinosis, foliis cuneato-lan- 
ceolatis pierumque obtusis , subtus sericeo-nitentibus , mb-aureis , calycibus 
villosis. 
Bumelia tenax . Willd. Sp. pi. 1, p. 1085. Persoon, Synopsis, vol. 1, 
p. 237. Elliott, Sketch, vol. 1, p. 288. Loudon, Encyc. Plants, p. 
149, t. 2394. 
Bumelia chrysophylloides . Pursh. Flor. Bor. Amer. 1, p. 155. 
Sideroxylon tenax . Linn. Mant. p. 48. Jacquin, Collect, vol. 2, p. 
252. 
Sideroxylon chrysophylloides. Mich. Flor. Bor. Amer. 1 , p. 123. 
Sideroxylon sericeum. Walter, Carol, p. 100. 
Chrysophyllum Carolinense. Jacq. Observ. vol. 3, p. 3, tab. 54. 
This very elegant leaved species becomes occasionally 
a tree 20 to 30 feet high, with hard tough wood, and the 
trunk clothed with a light grey bark. The young branches 
are slender, straight, flexible, and as in all the species 
of the genus inhabiting the United States, very difficult to 
break, hence the specific name of the present ( tenax .) The 
leaves are much smaller than in any of the preceding 
species ; smooth above, beneath silky and shining, with the 
down usually of a pale golden or ferruginous colour ; add- 
ing a peculiar elegance and splendour to the foliage, nearly 
equal to that of the true Chrysophyllum, or Golden-Leaf of 
the West Indies. The flowers and leaves, as usual, are 
both clustered at the extremities of the projecting buds of 
the former season, but the older fertile branches do not 
appear to produce any thorns. The peduncles of the ses- 
