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WOOLLY-LEAVED BUMELIA. 
sile corymbs, are very long, and as well as the calyx, 
clothed with ferruginous down. According to Willdenow 
the drupes are oval. Inner corolla or nectariurn 5-parted 
as the corolla, but with the divisions trifid, and the middle 
segment longest. 
This species affects dry sandy soils, and is met with, not 
uncommonly, from the sea-coast of South Carolina to East 
Florida. Bose remarks that at the approach of evening, 
the flowers give out an agreeable odour. In the Bartram 
Garden, there is a tree of this species, less silky than usual, 
wdiich is perfectly hardy. 
Plate XCII. 
A branch of the natural size. a. The flower, b. The berry. 
WOOLLY-LEAVED BUMELIA. 
BUMELIA lanuginosa, spinosa ; ramulis patentissimis , pubescentibus ; 
foliis cuneato-lanceolatis obtusis ; subtus lanuginosis ferrugineis nec 
sericeis calycibus glabris basi pilosiusculis . 
Bumelia lanuginosa . Persoon, Synops. 1, p. 237 . Pursh. Flor. 1, p. 
155 . 
Sideroxylon lanuginosum, spinosum ; ramulis patentissimis , pubescen- 
tibus ; foliis orvali-lanceolatis , supra glabris , subtus lanuginosis nec 
sericeis . Mich. Flor. Bor. Am. vol. 1 , p. 122. 
This is a smaller tree than the preceding, affecting the 
same situations, bushy swamps on light soils; and is met 
with in Georgia and the lower part of Alabama. The leaves 
are small, as in the preceding species, but covered beneath 
with a dull brown wool, not very thick, nor in the least 
