FETID BUMELIA. 
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suture, bright-brown at the tip of the base, with a conspi- 
cuous lateral basal cicatrice. 
This species has a considerable affinity with Sideroxylon 
spinosum of Linngeus, a native of India and Africa, the ber- 
ries of which are acidulous, and agreeable to eat. 
Plate XCIII. 
A branch of the natural size in flower, a. A branch with ripe berries. 
FETID BUMELIA. 
BUMELIA fcetidissima, foliis lanceolato-oblongis obtusis subemarginatis, 
pedunculis confertis axillaribus. Wiild. Sp. Plant, vol. 2, p. 1086. 
Persoon, Synops. 1, p. 237. 
Sideroxylon fcetidissimum inerme, foliis sub-oppositis, Jloribus paten- 
tissimis. Linn. Mantis, p. 49. Jacq. Amer. p. 55. Lam. Diet. vol. 
1, p. 247. 
This is another species, becoming a large tree, equally 
indigenous to Key West and the island of St. Domingo, 
and was found by the same person with the former. 
Poiteau met with it the mountainous woods of Hayti, and 
it was in flower in October. It is said neither to be 
spiny nor milky-juiced, and it bears a round berry almost 
as large as a cherry. 
In this species the leaves are very smooth and large, 
disposed chiefly at the extremities of the branches, they are 
nearly elliptic and obtuse, somewhat waved on the margin, 
on petioles nearly an inch in length, and of a thinnish con- 
sistence, yet somewhat coriaceous ; they are 3 to 3 J inches 
