LARGE-FRUITED BUMELIA. 
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shining; their form is cuneate-oblong, or sublanceolate and 
obtuse, about an inch and a half long, and a little more 
than half an inch wide, on short petioles like all the rest of 
our species. The flowers are also much smaller, and the 
calyx nearly smooth. In this species likewise the spines 
are stout, sharp and persistent. Its real affinity is to B. 
lycioides, but it is in all parts much smaller. 
LARGE-FRUITED BUMELIA. 
BUMELIA macrocarpa, depressa , ramis gracilibus valde spinosis , spinis 
ebngatis tenuibus subrecurvis, foliis parvulis cuneatodanceolalis obtusis 
junioribus lanuginosis , demum subglabris concoloribus ; drupa maxime 
ovali . 
This very low bushy species, allied to B. reclinata, I 
give, (though from very imperfect specimens) to complete 
the history of our species of the genus. The twigs are 
very slender, at first pubescent, covered with a grey bark, 
and with the spines long and slender as needles. The 
leaves, before expansion, are exceedingly lanuginous, and 
always small, with very short petioles, at length nearly 
smooth. The fruit is edible, and as large as a small date ! 
I found this species on the sandy hills not far from the 
Altamaha, in Georgia, in winter, and therefore do not know 
the flower. It does not grow more than a foot high, and 
the leaves are little more than half an inch long. 
