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ff Leaves Sempervirent. 
NARROW-LEAVED BUMELIA. 
BUMELIA angustifolia, glabra spinosa, foliis lineari-oblongis obtusist 
Jloribus aggregatis glabris, drupa oblonga umbilicata. 
This tree, according to Dr. Blodgett, is common at Key 
West, where it attains the height of 40 feet. The wood is 
probably equally hard with that of the other species of the 
genus. The branches before us are more or less spiny, 
and covered with a brown but externally silvery grey bark. 
The leaves, unusually small and narrow, come out in clus- 
ters from the centre of preceding buds, they are very smooth, 
apparently evergreen and coriaceous, linear-oblong and 
obtuse, attenuated into a sort of false petiole, and are about 
an inch and a quarter long, by about 3 lines wide. The 
peduncles are aggregated, rather short, and, as well as the 
calyx, smooth. Segments of the calyx ovate, the two 
outer smaller. Corolla yellowish-white not longer than the 
calyx. 
The berry, about the size and form of that of the Bar- 
berry, is purplish-black, and covered with a bloom, 
oblong-elliptic, by abortion 1-seeded, the 3 or 4 other 
ovules stifled, and the one large, cartilaginous seed filling 
up the whole cavity ; the berry is umbilicated at the apex, 
and terminated with the persistent, subulate, slender style ; 
the pulp is waxy, milky probably before ripe, as in the 
Sapotilla. The seed is large, cylindric-oblong, pale testa- 
ceous, hard and very shining, with an internal longitudinal 
