Chrysophyllum.] SAPOTACE (Harvey). 437 
about equalling the filaments. Ovary 5-9-celled, hairy ; style mostly 
shorter than the ovary; stigma obtuse, rarely acute ; ovules solitary, 
ascending. Berry few- or 1-celled, few- or l-seeded. DC. Prodr. 
viii. 156. 
Trees or shrubs, chiefly tropical. Leaves entire, alternate, often beautifully 
silky beneath and transversely multistriate. Pedicels axillary, in tufts; or 
flowers sessile. Flowers white or yellow, small. Name from xpvoos, gold, and 
pvadov, a leaf, from the silky and gold-coloured leaves of many species. 
Leaves oblong-lanceolate, obtusely acuminate, 
acute at the base; flowers sessile ade ... (1) natalense. 
Leaves oblong, obtuse, obtuse at the base; 
flowers pedicellate te ase get e 
Leaves oblong, obtuse, mucronulate, acute at the 
base ; flowers shortly pedicellate ae ... (3) Wilmsii. 
(2) magalismontanum. 
1. C. natalense (Sond. in Linnza, xxiii. 72); branches glabrous ; 
leaves petiolate, oblong-lanceolate, shortly and obtusely acuminate, 
mucronulate, narrowed at the base, subundulate, quite entire, with 
subreflexed edges, shining above, pale beneath; the young leaves 
and twigs rufo-tomentose ; flowers axillary, solitary or 3-4 together ; 
calyx ferruginous, its lobes ovate, acute; corolla glabrous, 5-fid; 
anthers apiculate ; ovary 5-celled. 
EASTERN REGION: Natal; Inanda, Wood, 732! Umgeni, Gerrard, 1459! 
near Durban, Gueinzius! Fields Hill, Sanderson, 657! near Krautz Kop, 
McKen, 14! 
‘* A low tree” (Gerrard). Leaves several at the ends of the twigs, 4-5 in. 
long, 1-13 in. wide ; petiole 4-6 lin, long; the under-surface clothed with very 
minute deciduous pale tomentum. Corolla a little longer than the calyx, tubular, 
5-fid, with erect lobes. Stamens inserted in the throat, on very short filaments, 
opposite the corolla-lobes. Ovary rather depressed ; style longer than it. 
2. C. magalismontanum (Sond. in Linnea, xxiii. 72); twigs 
minutely rufo-tomentose ; leaves petiolate, oblong, obtuse, emar- 
ginate, coriaceous, with subreflexed edges, the young leaves fulvous, 
the adult green and shining above, rufo-tomentulose beneath ; 
flowers axillary, aggregate, pedicellate, the pedicel as long as the 
calyx ; calyx rufous without, pale within, its lobes subacute ; corolla 
rotate, glabrous ; anthers acute ; ovary silky, 5-celled; fruit berried, 
obeordate, 2-celled, 2-seeded. 
Katanart Region: Transvaal; on the lower hill slopes, Barberton, 
Jobannesburg and Pretoria, Galpin, 223! 485! Johannesburg, Adlam, 1! 
Magalies Berg, Burke, 377! Zeyher, 1849! Nylstroom, Burtt-Davy, 2364! 
Pretoria, Rehmann, 4270! McLea in Herb. Bolus, 3089! Langlaagte, Cloete in 
Herb. MacOwan, 2981! 
Branches terete, grey. Leaves 3-4 in. long, 1}-2 in. wide, obtuse at the base, 
midnerved, with numerous parallel striz ; petiole 6-8 lin. long, rufous. Fruit 
8-9 lin. long, 10-12 lin. wide. 
3. C. Wilmsii (Engl. Sapot. Afr. 46, t. 16, fig. B); a tree; 
branches short, rather densely leafy, when young densely rusty- 
tomentose like the under-surface of the leaves ; stipules narrowly 
