402 STYRACEiE. 



20. B. buxifolia, W. Spinose ; branchlets and pedicels rusty-sericeous; leaves oval- 

 oblong, bluntly apiculate, bluntish at the base, shining-glabrous above, glabrate beneath ; 

 pedicels densely fascicled, lateral, shorter than or as long as the petioles ; calyx rusty-puberu- 

 lous, two-thirds as long as the corolla, half as long as the style ; all appendages oblong- 

 lanceolate, acuminate, as long as the stamens, little exceeded by the corolla. — Kth. N. Gen. 

 7. t. 647 : the exterior appendages solitary by mistake. — Leaves 2"-l£" long, 1" broad ; 

 pedicels 2"'-2i"', corolla 2'" long.— Hab. Trinidad!, Cr. ; [Venezuela]. 



7. LUCUMA, Juss. 



Calyx 4-many -leaved or -partite, imbricative. Corolla tubular, 6-4(-8)-lobed. Stamens 

 opposite the corolla-lobes, alternating with as many sterile appendages. Ovary 10-2-celled : 

 ovules pendulous. Seeds exalbuminous : radicle inferior. 



21. I*, multiflora, A. DC. Branchlets rusty-sericeous, glabrate ; leaves chartaceous, 

 obovate-oblong or obovate, blunt, glabrous : costate veins distant, delicately reticulated ; pe- 

 dicels fascicled (or single), usually shorter than the petiole ; calyx As-leaved, 2-serial : sepals 

 roundish, spreading, rusty-sericeous, half as long as the 6-lobed eorolla ; anthers ovate-lan- 

 ceolate, eqnalling the keeled appendages, laterally dehiscent ; ovary 4-celled ; berry globose, 

 1-seeded by abortion. — Achras quadrifida, lib. Bks. — A noble tree {Pd.), resembling L. 

 paucijlora, A. DC. {Achras vitellina, Tuss. M. t. 4. f. 19), which has densely reticulated 

 leaf-veins, larger flowers, and a 5-8-seeded, eatable berry. Leaves variable, 8"-4"(-2"). 

 corolla i m , anthers l'"long; berry 8"'-10'" diam. : pericarp rather leathery, filled up by 

 the subglobose seed. — Hab. Jamaica !, Macf-, AL, Pd., Wullschl., Manchester, S. Anns, 

 Hanover, common in woods, 



22. I*, mammosa, G. Branchlets rusty-villous ; leaves chartaceous, obovate-oblong 

 or spathulate, with a long enneate base, mucronate, glabrous above, glabrescent beneath : 

 costate veins distant, delicately reticulated ; pedicels lateral, subsolitary, but approximate, 

 shorter than the calyx ; calyx 10— 9-leaved, pluriserial, imbricative : sepals roundish, conni- 

 vent, sericeous, interior half as long as the 5-fid sericeous corolla ; anthers lanceolate, equal- 

 ling the subulate keeled appendages; ovary 5-celled; berry ovoid-oblong, rough, usually 1- 

 seeded by abortion — SI. t. 218. Jacq. Amer. Pict. t. 59. — Achras, L. (non Tuss. 3. t. 6, 

 which is Bassia Jussuei, ej. ; non Desc.) — A tree ; leaves 8"-6" long, 3"-2" broad above ; 

 corolla white, 5"'-6'", berry about 6", seed 2i" long. — Hab. Jamaica! {Jacq.), AL, Pd., 

 cultivated ! ; [Cuba, Panama ! Venezuela]. 



8. POUTERIA, Aubl. 



" Calyx 4-partite, imbricative. Corolla campanulate, 4-lobed : lobes alternating with ap- 

 pendages. Stamens inserted into the base of the corolla-tube," Capsule woody, 4-valved 

 to the base, usually 1-seeded by abortion : seed pendulous, loosely enclosed within a red 

 membrane, exalbuminous : testa crustaceous : radicle superior, short. 



The affinities of this genus are doubtful : Jnssieu considered it to be Ebenaceous. Our 

 specimens are in fruit only, but I compare the flowers of Labatia, Mart (Pcepp. Coll. 1885), 

 in which the stamens are opposite the corolla-lobes, though more deeply inserted than in 

 the preceding genera, the appendages analagous to those of Luvuma, and the anthers ex- 

 trorse. Hence Labatia is really Sapotaceous, but, if Pouteria has the same stamens, this 

 genus would be very anomalous by a superior radicle, dehiscent fruit, the calyx not persis- 

 tent, and the petioles nodose at the summit. — Labatia sessiliflora, Sw., of Haiti, is unknown 

 to me, and I doubt of its being a congerer of Pouteria. 



23. P. guianensis, Aubl. Glabrous; leaves usually opposite, elliptical-oblong or lan- 

 ceolate-oblong, pointed : veins costate ; pedicels (in fruit) longer than the petiole ; capsule 

 elliptical-oblong, lurid-tomentose. — Aubl. t. 33. — A tree ; leaves 8"-6", petiole 12'"-6'", 

 capsule 1" long. — Hab. Trinidad !, Cr., S. Anns ; [Guiana]. 



CV. STYRACE.E. 

 Petals usually connected by the stamina! tube. Stamens mostly monadelphous (or 



