Butyrospermum. | LXXX, SAPOTACEZ (BAKER). 505 
Oliv. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxix. 104, t. 73. Butyrospermum niloticum, 
Kotschy Pl. Knobl. t. 1. 
Upper Guinea. Kingdom of Bambara, where it was discovered by Mungo 
Park. In the Niger country at Nupe, Jeba, &c., Barter! Abbeokuta, Dr. Irving ! 
Wile Land. White Nile, Binder ; Gondokoro, Knoblecher ; Djur, Kosanga and 
the Niamniam country, Heuglin ; Madi, Col. Grant! 
2, B.? Kirkii, Baker. A low tree, with short glabrous terete 
ultimate branches. Leaves crowded at the end of the branches with 
very short petioles and very minute linear sttpules; blade obovate- 
cuneate, 2-3 in. long, obtuse or subcuneate, narrowed gradually from 
the middle to the base, glabrous on both sides, rigidly coriaceous, with 
the erecto-patent main veins of the under surface not at all prominent. 
Flowers seen in young bud only, arranged in dense umbels at the end 
of the branchlets, on erecto—patent pedicels }-4 in. long, densely coated 
with ferruginous tomentum. Calyx coriaceous, densely clothed when 
young with ferruginous tomentum, with 8 lanceolate acute segments 
In two distinct rows. Corolla with a short tube and 8 oblong segments. 
Anthers lanceolate. Staminodes oblong, entire. Fruit round-oblong, 
glabrous, an inch long, with a coriaceous pericarp and one exalbuminous 
seed which has very thick cotyledons filling it up. 
Mozamb. Distr. Mombasa, at an elevation of 300 ft, Dr. Kirk! 
4, MIMUSOPS, Linn. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. ii. p. 661. 
Corolla with a short tube and either 6 or 8 segments, arranged in 
two distinct rows, those of the outer row firmer in texture and valvate 
it bud. Corolla with a short tube and 3 times as many segments as 
the calyx, 12 or 16 in one outer row, and the other 6 or 8 in an inner 
‘OW, Opposite two segments of the outer row and the stamens. Sta- 
ens 6 or 8, inserted at the throat of the corolla-tube, about as long 
a8 the Segments ; anthers lanceolate; filaments short, subulate; stami- 
nodes petaloid, alternate with the stamens, inserted at the same level. 
vary hairy, globose ; style subulate, entire, long or short. Berry 
globose or cblong, with a crustaceous epicarp. Seed often solitary, 
4’Duminous ; cotyledons moderately thick.—Erect trees or shrubs, with 
milky juice, exstipulate short-petioled coriaceous or subcoriaceous 
amie glabrous leaves and copious small flowers in simple lateral 
els, 
a a 8enus of about 30 species, spread through the Tropies of both hemispheres 
hree species extending to the Cape. 
Parts of the flower in sixes. 
OWers 55-4 in. long. 
minodes acute, entire. 
veins fine immersed os ‘ 
ells many, distinctly raise a nee ane hi 
taminodes ‘raneate toothed Se ew ee ee 8. M, Mochisia. 
s, owersdin.long. . . . 4 
Fleet oy flower in eights. 
ers 3 in. long. . . 
Style not Brotraded beyond the calyx. . - + + + * 5. M. Schimperi. 
