Imbricaria. ] LXXX. SAPOTACE® (BAKER). 509 
inbud. Corolla with a short tube and 3 times as many segments as 
the calyx, 16 in the outer row much imbricated and cut down nearly 
to the base into narrow linear divisions and 8 in an inner row, which 
are entire. Stamens 8, placed at the throat of the corolla-tube opposite 
the segments of the inner row, alternating with linear staminodes ; 
anther lanceolate; filament short, subulate. Ovary hairy, 8-celled ; 
style subulate. Fruit globose or ellipsoid, with a thin pericarp. Seed 
usually solitary by abortion, albuminous, with moderately thick coty- 
ledons.—Trees with the habit, leaves and inflorescence of Mimusops, 
from which they differ only by the lacerated corolla-segments of the 
outer row. 
Species 4 or 5, the others exclusively Masearene. 
l. I. feagrans, Buker. A low spreading tree, with slender bran- 
ches, densely coated with ferruginous tomentum. Leaves exstipulate, 
distinctly petioled ; petiole 2-1 in., densely tomentose ; blade obovate- 
oblong, 3-4 in. long, 18-21 lines broad above the middle, obtuse or 
obscurely cuspidate, narrowed gradually from the middle to the base, 
subcoriaceous, glabrous, pubescent when mature only on the midrib 
beneath, the veins fine and inconspicuous. Flowers fragrant, placed 
few together in umbels from the tip and side of the branchlets, on 
ensely ferruginous-tomentose cernuous or ascending pedicels above 
an inch long. Calyx $ in. long, coriaceous, densely ferruginous, with 
a short tube and 8 acute segments, those of the outer row lanceolate, 
or the inner row linear and coated with thinner paler tomentum. 
Corolla cream-coloured, the 16 segments of the outer row shorter than 
the calyx, cut down nearly to the base into 4-5 narrow linear divisions ; 
© 8 segments of the inner row as long as the calyx, ligulate and 
entire. Stamens shorter than the inner segments ; anthers lanceolate, 
$ In. long, exceeding the glabrous filaments. Staminodes linear, 
entire, tomentose on the back. Ovary globose, densely silky; style 4 
in. long, glabrous, protruded beyond the calyx. 
Upper Guinea. In the N iger country at Yomba, Barter! 
Orver LXXXI. EBENACER. (By W. P. Hiern.) 
Flowers dicezious, rarely hermaphrodite or polygamous, regular. 
Caly x inferior, gamosepalous, small in flower, often accrescent in fruit, 
3-6-lobed or subentire ; estivation various. Corolla gamopetalons, 
rxceeding the cal yx, tabular urceolate campanulate or rotate, 3-6-lobed ; 
Obes usually entire, obtuse and spreading, contorted sinistrorsely in the 
Ud (as seen from inside). Stamens 6-20, usually 3 or 4 times the 
number of parts in the corolla, inserted at the base (in one species in 
© middle) of the corolla; in female flowers abortive, few or 0; an- 
*"s narrow linear or lanceolate ; filaments usually short, connate at 
© base in pairs or otherwise, or free. Disk 0. Ovary solitary, ree, 
2-10. (not 5-, 7-, nor 9-) celled, sessile, in male flowers rudimentary ; 
