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SAPOTACEAE 1031 
globose, 2.5-3.5 em.-in diameter, thick-skinned: seed turgid, oval and some- 
what rhombic.—Hammoeks and pinelands, pen. Fla. 
Famity 2. SAPOTACEAE — Sarona FAMILY 
bs or trees, with milky sap, sometimes thorny. Leaves mostly 
alternate: blades entire. Flowers perfect or rarely polygamous, clustered. 
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accompan a by staminodia. Gynoeci ium of bic united earpels. Fruit 
Corolla-lobes without soa appendages. 
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taminodia pres Tribe II. SrpEROXY E. 
Corolla-lobes with dorsal appendages. Tribe III. MINORE AD 
I. CHRYSOPHYLLEAE 
Shrubs or trees with leaves green above and copiously pubes- 
cent with golden, copper-colored or Silvery hairs beneath. 1. CHRYSOPHYLLUM. 
SIDEROXYLEAE 
Ovary 10-12- Sara staminodia "ouf, petal-like 2. SAPOTA. 
Ovary 2-5-cell 
orolla- “lobes ‘entire: staminodia scale-like or filament-like, 
Seeds with endosperm: staminodia scale-like. 3. SIDEROXYLON. 
See a without endosperm : staminodia filament- E 4. LUCUMA 
ROOM ne with a large median lobe and 2 smaller lat- 
es: staminodia petal-like. 
DUIS a. endosperm copious 5. DIPHOLIS. 
Ovary pubescent: endosperm wanting or scant. 6. BUMELIA. 
IT. MIMUSOP 
Shrubs or trees with broad many-veined jur ee the 
young fruits conspicuously tipped with the style. 7. MIMUSOPS. 
1. CHRYSOPHYLLUM L. Shrubs or trees. Leaf-blades commonly lus- 
trous-pubescent beneath. Calyx-lobes d 9. Corolla, like the calyx, often 
Ah escent: lobes mostly 5, entire. Anther 
arginate and PA Style nting: 
md lobed.—More than 60 ce “mostly (à 
tropical American 
1. C. olivaeforme 7 Evergreen shrub, 
tree becoming 10 m. tall, the twigs e Nd 
cent: leaf-blades coriaceous, poe or oval, 
3—10 em. long, shining above, ee 
cent e calyx-lobes ao lar, 1.5 
mm. long: corolla a about 5 mm. wide; 
lobes Sub cba: ber Iry O ed about 2 cm. 
pinelands and hammocks, Ever ergla ade Keys, "Fla. and Florida Keys. —(W. I.)— 
All year.—The n i hard, and close- -grained heart-wood is used locally 
in eabinet-work. 
2. SAPOTA Mill. Trees. Leaf-blades glabrous. Calyx-lobes 6, or rarely 5, 
pubescent. Corolla glabrous: lobes 6, or rarely 5, toothed. Anthers blunt. 
