Mimusops. | LXXX. SAPOTACEZ (BAKER). 507 
staminodes. Fruit yellow, glabrous, the size of a bullace. Seeds 3-4 
maturing, ellipsoid, laterally compressed, with a crustaceous pale 
brown testa and thick amygdaloid cotyledons. 
South Central. Highlands of Batoka country, Dr. Kirk! 
Mozamb. Distr. In Zambesi-land at Senna and Tette, Dr. Kirk! 
4, M.lacera, Baker. A tree 40-50 ft. high, yielding a substance 
like gutta-percha, with terete slender naked branchlets. Leaves 
petioled, exstipulate ; petiole 4-1 in.; blade obovate-oblong, 4-6 in. 
long, 2-34 in. broad above the middle, obtuse, cuneate at the base, 
nigidly coriaceous, glabrous on both sides, with numerous fine little- 
raised erecto-patent main veins. Flowers in dense umbels from the 
axils of the leaves and below them on slender straight glabrous pedicels 
23 in, long. Calyx green, coriaceous, campanulate, subglabrous, ¢ 
in. long; tube very short; outer segments oblong-lanceolate, inner 
oblong. Corolla whitish, as long as the calyx, with 18 entire linear 
Segments. Stamens 6, rather shorter than the corolla-segments, alter- 
nating with 6 lacerated lanceolate staminodes as long as themselves ; 
anthers oblong-lanceolate, about as long as the filaments. Ovary 
globose ; style 4 in. long. Fruit glabrous, ellipsoid, an inch long. 
Upper Guinea. N upe, Barter! Banks of the River Nun, Mann! 
5. M. Schimperi, Hochst. in Schimp. Pl. Abyss. n.697. A large 
tree, with slender glabrous branchlets. Leaves petioled, exstipulate ; 
Petiole 1-14 in.; blade oblong, 3-5 in. long, 14-2 in. broad at the 
middle, obtuse or subacute, deltoid at the base, subcoriaceous, glabrous 
on both sides, with fine main veins. Flowers in umbels from the 
axils of the leaves on nearly glabrous spreading or ascending pedicels 
about din. long. Calyx coriaceous, } in. long, thinly coated with dull 
Town ferruginous tomentum, with a very short tube and 8 acute seg- 
ments, the outer row lanceolate, the inner linear. Corolla with a very 
short tube and 24 linear segments, equal in length to those of the 
calyx. Stamens 8, included, the extrorse lanceolate anthers larger 
than the subulate glabrous filaments. Staminodes 8, linear, nearly as 
ong as the corolla-segments, tomentose on the back. Ovary globose, 
Pilose ; Style not protruded beyond the corolla. Fruit ellipsoid, gla- 
brous, 1-seeded, 1-14 in. long.—A. Rich. Fl. Abyss. ii. 22. 
Mile Lana. Mountains of Abyssinia, Schimper ! 
6. Mm. Kirkii, Baker. A handsome spreading tree wie sionder 
nearly glabrous branchlets. Leaves petioled, exstipulate ; petiole a 
.; blade obovate-oblong, 2-4 in. long, 13-1? in. broad, obtase, 
suneate at the base, subcoriaceous, glabrous on both i fine 
By veins. Flowers few together in umbels from ee le toners 
odes, on arching pedicels }—# in. long, coated with Cae abe ond 8 
'm. Calyx coriaceous, F in. long, with fob Fie oe hentai, 
wi 
Homents, the 4 outer ones lanceolate and coa 
© 4 inner ones linear and coated with drab tomentum. ee 
g 8 88 the calyx, with a short tube and 24 linear segments. 
» Nearly ag long as the corolla-segments; anthers lanceolate, longer 
