534 LXXXVII. MYRSINEX. (C. B. Clarke.) [ Reptonia. 
ll. REPTONTA, 4. DC. 
A small tree, spinous or unarmed; branches hoary. Leaves short-petioled, 
obovate, entire, coriaceous. Flowers small, hermaphrodite, axillary, sessile in 
tufts; bracteoles small. Calyx-lobes 5, round, imbricate. Covolla-tube short ; 
lobes 5, oblong, obtuse, contorted or imbricate. Stamens 5, alternating with 5 
lanceolate-subulate staminodes, filaments linear; anthers oblong. Ovary hairy, 
ovoid, narrowed into a cylindric style, stigma small; ovules 5-7, basal, erect, 
anatropous. Fruit globose, fleshy, crowned by the style-base, 1- (rarely 2-) 
seeded. Seed globose, hollowed at the base, albumen ruminated ; embryo 
axile, elongate, curved, cotyledons long, radicle short next the hilum. 
EK. buxifolia, 4. DC. Prodr. vii. 153; Boiss. Fl. Orient. iv. 82; 
Brand. For. Fl. 287, t. 34. Edgeworthia buxifolia, Falconer in Proc. Linn. 
Soc. i. 199, and in Trans. Linn. Soc. xix. 99, t. 9. Edgeworthia sp., Griff. 
Notul. iv. 295, and Ic, PI. Asiat. t. 498. Monotheca muscatensis, 4. DC. Lex 
Deless. Ic. Sel. v. t. 35. 
Prsuawun; Falconer, Stewart.—Disrris. Affghanistan, Muscat. — - 
Leaves 14 by $ im, obtuse, base cuneate, margin recurved, glabrous above, 
glaucous beneath; petiole hardly } in.  Calyz-lobes less than Je in., acute, rusty- 
puberulous. Corolla scarcely i; in., greenish-yellow. Berry 1-3 1n. diam, 
Order LXXXIX. SA POTACEZE. (By C. D. Clarke.) 
Trees or shrubs; young parts often rusty-tomentose. Leaves alternate (sub- 
‘opposite in Sarcosperma), coriaceous, entire, petioled ; stipules 0 or very caducous. 
lowers hermaphrodite, small or medium-sized, axillary; pedicels clustered, 
rarely solitary (in Sarcosperma flowers panicled) ; bracts and bracteoles 0, or 
minute. Calyx-lobes 4-8, much imbricated, or 2-seriate with the outer series 
valvate, persistent, Corolla-tube shorter than the calyx, lobes as many, or 2-4 
times as many as the calyx-lobes, Stamens upon the corolla-tube, as many as 
the corolla-lobes and opposite to them, or 2-5 times as many, 1-3-seriate ; fila- 
ments usually short; anthers oblong-lanceolate, connective often produced; 
staminodes, when present, alternating with the stamens. Ovary superior, 
sessile, 2-8-celled ; style linear, stigma a point; ovules solitary in each cell, 
usually attached to the inner angle. Berry indehiscent, l-8-seeded. Seeds 
ellipsoid; or, if more than one, often compressed, hilum long, testa usually 
erustaceous ; embryo straight, exalbuminous with large fleshy cotyledons, or 
albuminous with flat cotyledons; radicle inferior, usually small.—DrsTRIn. 
Species 320, in the tropies of the whole world. 
AcnnÁS BAPOTA, Linn. (= Mimusops Manilkara, Don) is cultivated in India for 
its fruit, 
Fruiting branchlets have been communicated by Mr, Cantley, from Perak, of a 
tree 80-100 ft. high, which yields gutta plentifully: the 4-merous calyx, fruits, and 
leaves are as in Jsonandra, but the single fragment of a flower indicates a funnel- 
shaped corolla }—} in. diam, ; it is attached, and appears to have the remains of many 
stamens and seales in the corolla-tube. The fragments (not the flowers) are figured 
by Beauvisage (Gutta-percha, t. 2); and the tree is identified by him with Keratephorus 
Leerii, Hassk., erroneously, for in this the corolla is very small. Without fuller 
material this tree cannot be safely referred to any genus; the pedicels of the fruits 
are 14 in. long, scattered towards the ends of the branchlets, not well agreeing with 
Lsonandra or Dichopsis. 
