Mimusops.| SAPOTACEZ (Harvey). 441 
sagittate anthers ; staminodes long triangular, a little shorter than 
the stamens ; ovary ovoid, shortly pilose ; style slender, three times 
as long as the ovary. 
Eastern ReGion: Natal; Inanda, Wood, 683! 
4. M. caffra (E. Meyer ex A.DC. Prodr. viii. 203); twigs, 
petioles and under-surface of leaves clothed with minute adpressed 
pubescence ; leaves obovate, cuneate at the base, coriaceous, with 
revolute edges ; axils 2—3-flowered ; pedicels recurved, rufo-tomen- 
tose, 2-3 times as long as the petiole ; calyx-lobes lanceolate, acumi- 
nate, the 4 outer rufo-tomentose on the outside, the 4 inner narrower, 
with whitish tomentum ; outer corolla-lobes equalling the calyx, 
inner rather longer. Drege, Zwei Pl. Documente, 155; Wood, 
Natal Plants, i. 36, t. 43; Engl. Sapot. Afr. 72, t. 27, fig. B. 
Coast Recion: Bathurst Div.; near Port Alfred, Burchell, 3805! at the 
mouth of the Great Fish River, Burchell, 3761! Kleinmund River, Mac- 
Owan, 393! King Williamstown Div.; Keiskamma, Hutton / 
EastERN Reoion: Pondoland; between Umtentu River and Umzimkula 
River, Drege! Natal; near Durban, Krauss, 76! Peddie! Wood, 1215! and 
without precise locality, Gerrard, 90! Cooper, 1243! Delagoa Bay, Forbes ! 
A large shrub or small tree. Leaves very leathery, 1-14 in. long, 3-1 in. 
wide, pretty constantly obovate and retuse, without obvious veins beneath. 
Pedicels nearly uncial, nedding. Drupe ovoid. 
5. M. Zeyheri (Sonder in Linnea, xxiii. 74); twigs and young 
leaves rufo-tomentulose ; leaves on long petioles, oblong-lanceolate, 
obtusely acuminate, acute at the base, glabrous, coriaceous, margined, 
prominently midribbed and somewhat veined beneath ; axils 3- or 
several-flowered ; pedicels abont equalling the petiole, recurved, as 
well as the calyx rufo-tomentose ; calyx-lobes ovate, acuminate, the 
inner narrower and paler; corolla as long as the calyx; drupe ellip- 
soid ; seed ovate, compressed, produced at the base. Engl. Sapot. 
Afr. 738. 
KataAnarRi Reoaion: Transvaal; Magalies Berg, Zeyher, 1130! Burke, 72! 
A large shrub or tree. Leaves 3-4 in. long, exclusive of a subuncial petiole, 
1-1} in. broad. Drupe edible, sweetish, 1 in. long, quite smooth. 
A variety occurs in Nyasaland. 
6. M. marginata (N. E. Br. in Kew Bulletin, 1895, 108); a 
large shrub; branches brown or ashy-grey, more or less corrugated, 
glabrous ; leaves elliptie-lanceolate or cuneate-oblanceolate, shortly 
and obtusely cuspidate or obtuse, acute at the base, fulvo-tomentose 
when young, glabrous when adult, 2-5 in. long, 3-2} in. wide; 
petiole 23-8 lin. long; flowers 6-16, umbellately arranged at the 
apex of the branches; pedicels rusty-tomentose, 1-1} in. long ; 
sepals 6-8, in two series, lanceolate, acuminate, 4—5 lin. long, 11-2 
lin. wide, the outer rusty-tomentose with grey margins, the inner 
grey-tomentose on both sides; petals 18-24 in three series, linear- 
oblong or lanceolate, acute, 4 lin. long, 1-1} lin. wide, glabrous, 
