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Mimusops.] LXXXIX. SAPOTACEX. (C. B. Clarke.) 549 
. Kew except the very complete set collected by Wight; but Col. Beddome says the 
tree is common in the Nilgherry and Anamallay forests. 
3. M. hexandra, Roxb. Cor. Pl. i. 16, t. 15, and FI. Ind. ii. 238; 
leaves elliptic-obovate obtuse or emarginate, stamens 6 (occasionally 7-8), berry 
l- (sometimes 2-) seeded. Wall. Cat. 4148, A, B; A. DC. Prodr. viii. 204; 
Grah. Cat. Bomb. Pl. 106 ; Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 140; Bedd. For. Man. 142. 
M. indica, A. DC. Lc. 205; Wight Ic. t. 1587; Brand. For. Fl. 991. M. 
Kauki, Wall. Cat. 4149, A, C, not of Linn. 
Deccan Dress and CEvLoN, common; extending north to Gujerat, Banda and 
the Cirears. Cultivated in North-west India. 
A large tree. Leaves 3-4 by 14-2 in. base cuneate or rhomboid, coriaceous, 
nerves obscure; petiole 4-5} in. Pedicels 1-4 in., 2-5 together, nearly glabrous; 
elusters subterminal, and along the branches, often dense. Calyx-lobes 6, 3-4 in., 
elliptic, subacute, obscurely tomentose or nearly glabrous. Corolla } in. long, white. 
Staminodes 6-8, serrate or lobed. Berry } by 4 in. wider when 2-seeded.—The 
staminodes are rather more lobed in the well-developed examples. 
4. M. Kauki, Linn. Sp. Pl. 497; leaves long-petioled obovate-elliptic 
silky-white beneath, stamens 6-8, berry usually 4—3-seeded. Wail. Cat. 4149, 
E, upper half; A. DC. Prodr. viii. 203; Mig. Fl. Ind. Bat. ii. 1042 ; Grah. Cat. 
Bomb. Pl. 106. M. balota, Blume Bud. 673. M. dissecta, Br. Prodr. 531, in 
obs.; Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 3157; A. DC. Le 204. M. Hookeri, 4. DC. Le. 
M. Browniana, Benth. Fl. Austral. iv. 285.— Rumph. Herb. Amb. iii. t. 8. 
BigMA, at Amherst; Wallich. Maracca; Griffith.—Distri, Malaya, Tropical 
Australia. 
A large tree. Leaves 4 by 2 in., obtuse or scarcely acute, base cuneate, nerves 
obscure; petiole 1-1} in. Pedicels 1 in., densely clustered near the ends of the 
branches, cinnamoneous-tomentose. Calyx-lobes 6, + in., ovate, subacute, brown- 
tomentose. Corolla } in. long, lobes narrow, acute. Staminodes 6—8, serrate or lobed. 
Berry 3-1 in. diam., globose, smooth.—Among the secondary sheets of Wall. Cat. 
4148 are Achras Sapota and Sideroxylon ferrugineum. The great difficulty that has 
been raised over M. Kauki, Linn., has been due to two causes: (1) Wallich identified 
his Amherst plant, the true M. Kauki, with Roxburgh's Deccan M. hexandra ; (2) 
botaniste, not looking to the fruit, and perhaps not having it always to look at, have 
betaken themselves to the degree of notching of the staminodes for diagnostic 
charaeters. 
ANOMALOUS SPECIES, 
5. M. rrrroRALIS, Kurz For. Fl. ii. 123, and in Journ. As. Soc. 1876, pt. ii. 138; 
leaves large elliptic or obovate glabrous beneath, fruit 1-14 in. diam. 6—5-seeded. 
M. indica, Kurz Andaman Rep. 42, and in Journ. As. Soc. 1871, pt. ii. 70, not of 
A. DC. 
ANDAMAN Isrps.; Kurz, Helfer (Kew Distrib. n. 3613). Nicopars; Kurz. 
A tree, 50-80 ft. ; all parts quite glabrous. Leaves 74 by 3$ in., not acute, base 
cuneate, coriaceous ` petiole # in.  Pedicels 1 in., clustered towards the ends of the 
branches, 1 in each axil.— The Kew specimens have no flowers, but represent a large 
species allied to M. Kauki. Kurz describes the calyx as 6-8-lobed, and the fertile 
stamens as 12-16, with as many staminodes; indicative perhaps of a new genus.— 
Andaman Bullet-wood, 
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ORDER XC. EBENACEE. (Dy C. B. Clarke.) 
Trees or shrubs. Leaves alternate, rarely subopposite, exstipulate, entire, 
usually coriaceous. Flowers usually dicecious, regular, axillary, subsessile or in 
short cymes, usually bracteate ; pedicels articulated under the flower. Calyx 
