SAPOTACEZ. I. Sersatisia. II. Arcanta. 27 
Africa. The most famous of this description are the Indian 
Mava, mahva, or Madhuca, the JBássia butyrdcea, and the 
African Shea-tree, Bássia Párkii; the seeds of the former 
are so oleaginous, that a single tree has been known to produce 
three quintals of oil; the dried flowers of the same tree are 
mixed by some Indians with their food, and a kind of spirit is 
distilled from them by others. The juice of all the sapotas is 
milky, but not acrid and poisonous, like that of most other 
lactescent orders, but, on the contrary, yielding a wholesome 
beverage or food. According to Mr. R. Brown, the bark of 
some species of A'chras and Lucüma is so astringent and febri- 
fugal as to be substituted for quinquina or Peruvian bark. 
Synopsis of the genera. 
1 Srnsarísia. Calyx 5-parted. Corolla 5-cleft. Stamens 
10, 5 fertile and 5 sterile. Stigma undivided. Ovarium 5- 
celled. Berry 1-5-seeded. 
2 Area’nia. Calyx 10-parted, disposed in a double series, 
Corolla 5-cleft ; segments sub-emarginate. Stamens 10, 5 fer- 
tile, and 5 sterile, petal-like. Drupe containing a 2-2-celled nut, 
some of the cells usually above, marked by as many furrows as 
there are cells. 
3 Sipgréxyton. Calyx 5-parted. Corolla 5-cleft, with a 
denticulated lobe at the base" of each segment. 
alternating with the 5 teeth or sterile stamens. Berry 5-celled; 
cells 1-seeded, not all fertile ; seeds exalbuminous, bony. 
4 Bume'‘tia. Calyx and corolla 5-parted. Stamens 10, 5 
fertile, alternating with 5 membranous sterile ones. Ovarium 
5-celled. Berry l-seeded. Seeds albuminous. 
5 Nycrerisition. Calyx and corolla 5-parted. Stamens 5, 
fertile, without any sterile ones. Ovarium 5-celled; cells 1- 
seeded. Stigmaobtuse. Seeds bony, albuminous. 
6 CarysoruyY'LLUM. Calyx and corolla 5-parted. Stamens 
5, fertile, and no sterile ones. Stigma obsoletely 10-lobed. 
Berry 10-celled. Seeds bony and albuminous. 
7 A'cunas. Calyx 6-parted. Corolla 6-cleft. Stamens 12, 
6 sterile and 6 fertile. Ovarium 12-6-celled, 12-6-seeded. 
Seeds albuminous, bony. 
8 Lucuma., Calyx 5-parted. Corolla 5-cleft. Stamens 10, 5 
fertile, and 5 sterile, scale-like. Ovarium 10-5-celled. Berry 
1-10-seeded. Seeds bony, exalbuminous. 
9 Inbdca’RPus. Calyx 2-cleft. Corolla 5-cleft, long and li- 
near. Stamens 10, inserted in a double row. Stigma concave, 
sessile. Drupe compressed, ovate, incurved at top, containing 
a fibry reticulated nut. Embryo exalbuminous. 
10 Mimv'sors. Calyx 8-6-parted, in a twin order. Corolla 
with a double row of segments. Stamens 6-8 fertile (f. 7. a.), 
and 6-8 sterile (f. 7. a.). Ovarium 6-8-celled. Berry few- 
seeded from abortion. Seeds albuminous, nucumentaceous. 
11 Iwsmica'Rra. Calyx 8-parted. Corolla with a triple 
series of trifid segments. Stamens 8 sterile and 8 fertile. Ova- 
rium 8-celled, 8-seeded. Berry few-celled from abortion. Seeds 
albuminous, nucumentaceous. 
12 Owrnaroca'gPUM. Calyx many-parted, covered by 11-12 
Seeds exalbuminous, crustaceous. 
Stamens 5, 
concave scales. Corolla 6-7-cleft; segments alternating with 
as many fringed scales. Stamens 30-40, disposed in unequal 
series, Fruit solid, woody, umbilicate, many-celled, many- 
seeded. 
13 Ba’ssta. Calyx 4-5-parted. Corolla 8-parted. Stamens 
16, disposed in a double row. Berry 6-8-celled ; cells 1-seeded. 
Seeds without albumen, somewhat trigonal, bony. 
14 Lasa‘r1a. Calyx 4-parted, the 2 outer segments the 
largest. Corolla 4-cleft. Stamens 8, 4 sterile and scale-formed, 
and 4 fertile ones inserted in the bottom of the corolla. Berry 
hard, roughish, 4-celled, rarely 2-celled 4-seeded. Seeds exal- 
buminous. ? 
15 PourERia. Calyx and corolla 4-cleft. Stamens 8, 4 
sterile and bristle-formed, and 4 fertile. Capsule ovate, hispid, 
4-valved ; each valve containing an arillate almond-formed seed. 
16 Pnzrriwr. Calyx 4-toothed. Corolla 4-parted. Sta- 
mens 4, fertile. Capsule 4-celled; cells corky, dehiscing inside. 
Seeds solitary. 
t A genus hardly known. 
17 MowTA'BEA. Calyx tubular, with 5 unequal segments. 
Corolla funnel-shaped, with unequal segments. Nectary mono- 
phyllous, or stamens 5-8 combined, fixed to the superior part 
of the tube of the corolla, 5-toothed at top, with an anther. 
between each of the teeth, which are probably abortive stamens. 
Stigma globose, obtuse. Berry 3-5-celled, 3-5-seeded. Seeds 
arillate, umbilicate on one side. 
I. SERSALI'SIA (named in memory of John Baptist Ser- 
salis, a Neapolitan ecclesiastic, much praised by Fabius Co- 
lumna). R. Br. prod. p. 529.—Sideróxylon species of authors. 
Lin. syst. Pentdndria, Monogynia. Calyx 5-parted. Co- 
rolla 5-cleft. Stamens 10, 5 of which are sterile and scale- 
formed, and the other 5 fertile and bearing anthers, alternating 
with the scale-formed sterile ones. Ovarium 5-celled. Stigma 
undivided. Berry 1-5-seeded. Seeds exalbuminous, with a 
crustaceous testa, and longitudinal hilum.—Shrubs, with obovate 
leaves, and axillary, white flowers. The flowers are almost 
those of Sideréxylon, and the fruit almost that of Bumélia. 
1 S. sericea (R. Br. prod. p. 530.) leaves ovate or obovate, 
obtuse, tomentose beneath as well as the peduncles and calyxes ; 
corollas villous outside, having the tube exceeding the calyx; 
sterile filaments lanceolate ; style filiform, villous at the base. 
h.S. Native of New Holland, within the tropic. Sideróxy- 
lon seríceum, Ait. hort. kew. 1. p. 262. 
Silky-leaved Sersalisia. Clt. 1772. Shrub 6 to 10 feet. 
2 S. opova'ra (R. Br. l. c.) leaves obovate, a little attenuated 
at the base, rather silky beneath ; calyxes smoothish ; corolla 
5-parted, glabrous: with orbicular segments, which much ex- 
ceed the lanceolate, sterile filaments; stigma sessile, round. 
h. S. Native of New Holland, within the tropic. 
Obovate-leaved Sersalisia. Shrub. 
Cult. A mixture of loam, peat, and sand is a good soil for 
the species of Sersalisia; and cuttings strike root freely in sand, 
with a hand-glass over them. 
II. ARGA'NIA (Argan is the aboriginal name of the tree). 
Roem. et Schultes, syst. XLVI. | Sideróxylon spinósum, Lin. 
Lin. syst. — Pentándria, Monogynia. Calyx 5-10-cleft ; 
leaflets, or rather scales, roundish, concave, disposed in a double 
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