498 LXXX. SAPOTACER (BAKER). [ Chrysophyllum. 
under surface of the leaves more or less densely coated with brown or 
whitish silky tomentum. 
An order of about 300 species, widely spread almost exclusively through the 
tropical zone of both hemispheres. 
Calyx-segments usually 5, not arranged in two distinct 
rows. 
Staminodes none . . . .. . . + «. » « « « « 1. CHRYSOPHYLLUM. 
Staminodes alternate with the stamens . . . . . . 2. SIDEROXYLON. 
Calyx-segments 6 or 8, rarely 10, arranged in two distinct 
rows. 
Corolla-segments equal in number to the calyx-segments. 3. BuryRosPERMUM. 
Corolla-segments three times the number of the calyx- 
segments. 
Corolla-segments entire. . . . . . . . . + . 4. Miusops. 
Corolla-segments lacerated . 2 2. 2 1. ee C8 «Dpricaria. 
1. CHRYSOPHYLLUM, Linn. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. ii. 653. 
Calyx campanulate, usually deeply 5- rarely 6-7-partite, the obtuse 
segments broadly imbricate, not arranged in two distinct rows. 
Corolla campanulate, little longer than the calyx; segments as many 
as those of the calyx, entire, longer than the tube. Stamens as many 
as the corolla-segments and inserted opposite to them at the throat of 
the tube; filaments short; anthers usually extrorse; staminodes: 0. 
Ovary villose, usually 5-celled; ovule medial or basal; style short, entire. 
Berry fleshy or coriaceous, ovoid or globose. Seeds one or few, if one 
globose, if more than one compressed; testa coriaceous, opaque OF 
shining ; albumen present ; cotyledons foliaceous or thickened.—Erect 
trees or shrubs with milky juice, exstipulate coriaceous shortly-petioled 
entire leaves with mostly prominent parallel main veins and copious 
small flowers in dense clusters from the axils of the leaves or thickened 
leafless nodes. 
_ A genus of about 60 species, mainly Tropical American. It is feebly represented 
in Tropical Asia, and reaches also Australia, the Sandwich Islands, and two species the 
ape. 
Anthers large; filaments very short. 
Main veins little raised . . . . 
Main veins very prominent. . . . . . . 
Anthers minute ; filaments comparatively long. 
Leaves small (2-3 in. long) . . . 
Leaves large (3-1 ft. long). 
Leaves naked beneath. 2. 2... . . . . 4. . subnudum. 
Leaves clothed with pale ferruginous or whitish 
tomentum beneath . . . , . . , . . OG. albidum. 
Leaves clothed with bright ferraginous tomentum 
beneath. . . . . . 
1. C. magalismontanum. 
2. C.2 alnifolium. 
3. C. prunifolium. 
6. C. africanum. 
1. 6. magalismontanum, Sonder in Linnea, xxiii. 72. Brancb- 
lets stout and rugose, coated only at the top with thin ferruginous 
tomentum. Leaves short-petioled, oblanceolate-oblong, reaching 
5-6 in. long, 14-2 in. broad above the middle, emarginate with a 
mucro at the tip, deltoid at the base, rigidly coriaceous, glossy ©? a 
face, thinly coated with adpressed drab silky tomentum beneath, the 
fine close slightly ascending veins connected by a distinct ure 
