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FETID BUMELIA. 
long and from 1| to 2 inches wide. The flowers are 
numerous and in dense clusters, produced, apparently, in 
the axils of preceding leaves, and therefore appear wholly 
lateral. The calyx is almost entirely smooth, with oval 
segments ; the corolla very spreading, yellowish-white, with 
5 stamens. The stigma, very different from that of the 
preceding species, is wholly sessile on the summit of the 
oblong germ, and is membranous and concave. The berry, 
apparently yellow, is by abortion only 1 -seeded. The spe- 
cimens collected in St. Domingo by Poiteau, are marked 
Samara, probably from the very peculiar almost cup-shaped 
stigma and spherical fruit. It seems to be nearly allied 
to Sideroxylon lucidum, (Solander), as described by La- 
marck, Diet. l,p. 246. It is also nearly allied, apparently, 
to B. pallida. 
Plate XCIV. 
A branch of the natural size. 
