. North American trees : being descriptions and illustrations of the trees growing independently of cultivation in North America, north of Mexico and the West Indies . Trees. Fig. 708. — Cassine-leaved Buckthorn. 2. CASSINE-LEAVED BUCKTHORN —Bumelia cassinifolia SmaU A small, usually spiny, tree or shrub, known only from sandy woods of Loui- siana, where it attains a maximiun height of 10 meters, with a trunk diameter up to dm. The bark is reddish brown. The twigs are relatively stout, slightly hairy and dark gray. The leaves are numerous, rather thin, oblong-obovate or oblanceolate, 2 to
. North American trees : being descriptions and illustrations of the trees growing independently of cultivation in North America, north of Mexico and the West Indies . Trees. Fig. 708. — Cassine-leaved Buckthorn. 2. CASSINE-LEAVED BUCKTHORN —Bumelia cassinifolia SmaU A small, usually spiny, tree or shrub, known only from sandy woods of Loui- siana, where it attains a maximiun height of 10 meters, with a trunk diameter up to dm. The bark is reddish brown. The twigs are relatively stout, slightly hairy and dark gray. The leaves are numerous, rather thin, oblong-obovate or oblanceolate, 2 to 10 cm. long, rounded or notched at the apex, grad- ually tapering at the base, slightly revolute on the margin, dark green and smooth above, paler and prominently nerved beneath; the leaf-stalk is slender, 8 to 12 mm. long. The flowers are in many-flowered fascicles, open- ing in May; the pedicels are 2 to 5 mm. long, smooth and slightly enlarged toward the top; calyx-lobes orbicular, about 2 mm. long; corolla-lobes suborbicular, to 2 mm. broad, often irregularly toothed, the appendages lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, crisp or toothed; staminodes ovate, about 2 mm. long, blunt and finely toothed. The subglobose fruit is black, i to cm. long, ripening several weeks earlier than that of other species of the genus in the same region. 3. SHINING BUMELIA — Bumelia lucida SmaU A small tree or shrub of Louisiana and eastern Texas, attaining a maximum height of 7 meters. The branches are stiff and ; The twigs are stout and smooth, dark gray, with raised yel- lowish lenticels. The leathery leaves are .elliptic to elliptic-ovate or elliptic-oblanceolate, 2 to 5 cm. long, sharp-pointed or blunt at each end, entire and revolute on the margin, deep green, smooth and shining above, paler, dull and prominently netted beneath; the leaf-stalk is slender, 2 to 5 mm. long. The flowers are borne in many-flowered fas- Fig. 709. — Shining Bumelia. cicles on slender, smoot
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