Enbelia.] LXXIX. MYRSINEE (BAKER). 497 
lin. long from branchlets that bear undeveloped leaves at the tips 
only; pedicels as long as the flowers, slender, glabrous, spreading or 
ascending ; bracts minute, oblong-lanceolate. Flower-calyx under a 
line in diameter, campanulate, glabrous ; teeth deltoid. Petals ,', in. 
long, oblong, with copious dots. Stamens distinctly longer than the 
petals; anthers minute, round-oblong, } the length of the subulate 
glabrous filaments. Fruit not scen. 
Upper Guinea. Banks of the Bagroo River, Mann / 
3. EB. abyssinica, Baker. A climbing shrub, glabrous in all its 
parts. Leaves petioled, not crowded on the branchlets ; petiole +4 in. ; 
blade obovate-oblong, 3-4 in. long, 1-1} in. broad above the middle, 
obtuse or subacute, entire, rather rounded at the base, moderately firm 
in texture, green and glabrous on both sides, with copious minute 
black dots, the main veins little raised. Flowers in copious oblong 
racemes 1-14 in. long, which are sessile on the branchlets below the 
upper leafy part; pedicels glabrous, }-} in., ascending or spreading ; 
tacts deltoid, very minute. Flower-calyx campanulate, 7/5 in, dia- 
meter; teeth deltoid, longer than the tube. Petals oblong, ¢ in. long, 
copiously black-dotted. Stamens as ‘long as the petals; anthers 
minute, oblong, 1! as long as the subulate filaments. Fruit globose, 
glabrous, 3 in, diameter, tipped with the slender subulate style, which 
8 yy in. long, with a minute capitate stigma. 
Nile Land. Abyssinia, Schimper ! 
Orpen LXXX. SAPOTACEA. (By J. G. Baker.) 
Flowers regular, hermaphrodite. Calyx persistent, with a short 
tube and 5-10 segments, which are either imbricated irregularly or 
even in number and arranged in two distinct rows, those of the outer 
Tow being valvate in bud, and those of the inner row not so firm in 
texture. Corolla deciduons, equal in length to the calyx or a little 
Cnger, infundibuliform, campanulate or rarely rotate, the segments 
equal in number to those of the calyx or 2-3 times as many, if three 
mes as many arranged in two distinct rows, entire or in Imbricaria, 
erated from the top. Stamens in all the tropical African species 
equal in number to the calyx-segments, inserted at or near the throat 
of the tube, usually alternating with petaloid staminodes ; filaments 
short or moderately long, free; anthers ovate or lanceolate, 2-celled, 
chiscing longitudinally. Ovary many-celled, with axile placentation, 
and one ovule in each cell, Fruit indehiscent, with a pulpy or dry 
Corlaceous pericarp, often by abortion 1-seeded. Seed terete tee 
Pressed, exalbuminous or albuminous, the cotyledons usually thickene 
se fleshy.—Erect trees or shrubs, with milky juice, exstipulate or 
stipulate petioled entire coriaceous or subcoriaceous alternate leaves, 
and copious small flowers in umbels from the sides or tips od the a . 
ae branchlets, the pedicels, calyx and often the — = an 
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