442 SAPOTACEH (Harvey). [ Mimusops. 
yellow ; stamens 6-8; anthers lanceolate, apiculate, much longer 
than the tomentose filaments ; ovary globose-ovoid, densely hirsute ; 
style elongate, glabrous ; fruit rather large, ellipsoid, acute or acumi- 
nate. Engl. Sapot. Afr. 71. 
Coast Rea@ion : Komgha Div.; Komgha, Flanagan, 27! 
EasterRN Recion: Natal; Inanda, Wood, 1661! near Umlaas, Wood, 5340! 
Tongaat, Cooper, 2479! Nonoti, Gerrard, 1186! and without precise locality, 
MceKen, 6! 
Native name, ‘* Amapumbulo.”’ 
7. M. obovata (Sond. in Linnea, xxiii. 75); twigs, petioles and 
both surfaces of the leaves quite glabrous; leaves obovate or obovate- 
oblong, obtuse or bluntly acuminate, subcoriaceous, with flat or 
scarcely subrecurved edges, beneath paler, prominently midribbed 
and obviously somewhat netted-veined ; axils 1—2-flowered ; pedicels 
ferruginous, erect, 4-5 times longer than the petiole ; calyx-lobes 
lanceolate, acuminate, the outer rusty, the inner narrower, with pale 
tomentum ; corolla as long as the calyx ; drupe ovate or subglobose, 
apiculate ; seed elliptic-oblong. Engl. Sapot. Afr. 72, t. 27, fig. D. 
Imbricaria obovata, Nees ex Engl. l.c. 
Var. 8, grandifolia (Harv.); leaves longer and broader. M. obovata, Harv. 
Thes. Cap. i. 28, t. 44. 
Coast ReGion : Uitenhage Div. ; Olifants Hoek, Ecklon ¥ Zeyher ! Zeyher! 
Albany Div. ; Featherstones Kloof near Grahamstown, MacOwan, 258 ! 
Katanari Recion: Transvaal; Warm Bath, Burtt-Davy, 2625! 
Eastern Recion : Pondoland, Beyrick, 149. Natal; near Durban, Gerrard 
§ McKen, 721! 869! Sanderson, 107! 678! and without precise locality, 
Gerrard, 96! Williamson! Cooper, 1242! Gueinzius, 583 and 101. Var, 6: 
Natal; near Durban, Sanderson, 117! 
A shrub. Leaves very variable in shape and size, sometimes exactly obovate, 
24-3 in. long, 14-24 in. wide ; sometimes almost ovate-lanceolate, 1-14 in. long, 
3-2 in. wide. Called ‘‘Masatola” by the Zulus, Gerrard § McKen, 2047, 
trom Zululand (without flowers) is said to be ‘‘a very large tree, 40-50 ft. high, 
with spherical fruit” ; it has the same foliage and native name as M. obovata, 
and I hesitate to separate it specifically, as the fruit in M. obovata varies in 
shape,—W. H. H. 
8. M. oleifolia (N. E. Br. in Kew Bulletin, 1895, 109); a large 
shrub; branches ashy-grey, glabrous ; leaves lanceolate, tapering to 
both ends, obtuse, acute at the base, coriaceous, glabrous, 1-2 in. 
long, 23—4 lin. wide ; petiole 2-3 lin. long; flowers axillary, solitary ; 
pedicels about 3 times as long as the petioles, glabrous or at first 
minutely adpressed puberulous ; sepals 8 in two series, the outer 
lanceolate, acute, densely brown pubescent outside, minutely puberu- 
lous within, the inner linear-lanceolate, acute, puberulous outside, 
glabrous within, ciliolate ; corolla-lobes 24 in three series, those of 
the two outer series linear-lanceolate, acute, 23-2% lin. long, > lin. 
wide, the innermost lanceolate, acuminate, 3-3) lin. long, 1 lin. 
wide, glabrous ; staminodes narrowly lanceolate-attenuate, adpressedly 
hirsute on the back and margins; stamens 8; filaments {} lin. long, 
subulate; anthers linear-oblong, apiculate, 2 lin. long ; ovary ovoid, 
