Chrysophyllum. | LXXX. SAPOTACE® (BAKER). 499 
arch a little within the margin. Flowers in copious crowded clusters 
on very short ferruginous silky pedicels. Calyx campanulate, under 
g in. long; segments broad oblong, obtuse, much imbricated, clothed 
with thin ferruginous silky tomentum. Corolla little longer than the 
calyx, with a short tube and oblong segments. Anthers lanceolate, 
nearly as long as the corolla-segments, much longer than the deltoid 
filament. Ovary densely silky ; style short. 
South Central. Highlands of the Batoka country, Also Cape, Dr. Kirk! 
2. ©.? alnifolium, Baker. A tree 50-60 ft. high, with slender 
strict purplish-brown terete branchlets, clothed only at the top with 
loose ferruginous tomentum. Leaves short-petioled, obovate, reaching 
a length of 6-8 in., and a breadth of 33-41 in. above the middle, 
obtuse or emarginate at the tip, regularly deltoid in the lower third, 
less coriaceous in texture than in any of our other species, naked 
except a little tomentum on the ribs of the under surface, with are in 
10-12 pairs, erecto-patent and very prominently raised and connected 
by distinctly raised cross-bars. Flowers seen in the bud stage only, 
when they form dense clusters sessile in the axils of the leaves. Calyx 
with avery short tube and 5 oblong segments densely coated with 
loose ferruginous tomentum. Corolla campanulate, with a short tube 
and oblong segments. Anthers oblong, shorter than the corolla-seg- 
ments in this early stage, and filaments very short. Ovary globose, 
densely hairy ; style very short. 
Upper Guinea. In the Niger country at Onitsha, Barter ! ‘i 
_ This is the Tropical African plant mentioned as a doubtful Lucuma by Bentham 
Gen. Plant. ii. 654. 
3. CG. prunifolium, Baker. <A tree 30 ft. high, the short slender 
nodular branches clothed at the tip with adpressed dark ferruginous 
silky tomentum. Leaves oblong, distinctly petioled, reaching a length 
of 2-3 in., and a breadth of 14-12 in. above the middle, shortly ob- 
tusely cuspidate, deltoid at the base, rigidly subcoriaceous, green and 
naked above, persistently clothed with thin silky bright ferruginous 
tomentum beneath, with 10-12 pairs of very much raised erecto-patent 
main veins which reach the margin. Flowers in copious clusters in 
© axils of the leaves and on the nodes of the leafless lower part of 
© branchlets, seen in the bud stage only ; pedicels very short. Calyx 
minute, with a very short tube and 5 much imbricated roundish apente 
Segments, clothed’ with ferruginous pubescence. Corolla-segments 
oblong. Anthers minute. Ovary densely silky; style short. 
Upper Guinea. [ernando Po, Mann! 
4. c. subnudum, Baker. <A tree, 30 ft. high, with slender 
branchlets, only very thinly coated with ferruginous tomentum at - 
tip. Leaves distinctly petioled (4-2 in.), oblanceolate-ob/ong, ah - 
ng a length of 5-6 in., and a breadth of 2 in. above the middle, 
acute, deltoid at the base, rigidly coriaceous, glossy above, opaque 
and naked beneath, with 8-10 pairs of arcuate ascending strongly 
™sed main veins, Flowers in copious clusters in the aie ” the 
