Mimusops. ] SAPOTACE® (Harvey). 443 
tapering into the adpressedly pubescent style. Engl. Sapot. Afr. 
73, t. 34, fig. B. ; 
EasTERN REGION : Natal; Tugela, Gerrard, 1642! 
9. M. dispar (N. E. Br. in Kew Bulletin, 1895, 107) ; a small 
tree; branches glabrous, ashy-grey; leaves cuneate-oblanceolate, 
obtuse, $-2 in. long, 1—% in. wide, fulvo-tomentose when young, 
glabrous when adult, closely and finely reticulate when dry ; petiole 
2-4 lin. long; flowers 12-16 umbellately arranged at the apex of 
the branches ; pedicels 6-8 lin. long ; calyx at first fulvo-tomentose, 
at length with ashy adpressed pubescence ; sepals 6-8 in two series, 
ovate, the outer acute, the inner obtuse; petals 18-24 in three 
series, about 3 lin, long, 3—% lin. wide, subequal, linear-lanceolate, 
acute, glabrous, yellow; stamens 6-8, shorter than the petals ; 
anthers lanceolate, acute, flexuous, almost versatile, much longer 
than the glabrous subulate filaments ; staminodes lanceolate, acumi- 
nate, channelled, glabrous with nearly woolly margins; ovary 
globose, densely hirsute ; style long, glabrous ; fruit ‘‘ yellow, well- 
flavoured” (Wood). Engl. Sapot. Afr. 71. 
Eastern Region: Natal; near Mooi River in ‘‘ Thorns,’ 3000-4000 ft., 
Wood, 4472! Thresh in Natal Herb. 5425! Upper Tugela River, Gerrard, 
1482! and without precise locality, Gerrard, 1910! 
Native name ‘‘ Umpumbula.” 
10. M. Schinzii (Engl. Sapot. Afr. 70, t. 29, fig. A); a small 
tree ; branches with rough greyish bark, densely leafy at the apex; 
leaves oblong-elliptic, obtuse at both ends, or sometimes very shortly 
acuminate, 21-41 in. long, 11—2 in. wide, coriaceous, green on both 
surfaces ; petiole up to 5 lin. long; lateral nerves many, prominent 
beneath ; reticulations dense, prominent; pedicels in axillary fas- 
cicles of 2-3, about 3 times as long as the buds, shortly and densely 
rusty-pilose ; sepals oblong-lanceolate; outer corolla-lobes oblong, 
acute, denticulate in the upper third, inner lanceolate of equal 
length ; filaments shorter than the ovate-sagittate apiculate anthers ; 
staminodes long triangular, acute, a little shorter than the stamens, 
densely pilose outside ; ovary subovoid, 8-6-celled, tapering into a 
style 3} times its length. M. natalensis, Schinz in Bull. Herb. 
Boiss. iv, 441, 
Coast Region: Komgha Div. ; in woods near Komgha, Schlechter, 6220. 
[The locality as originally published is quite erroneous.— VV. E. Brown. ] 
11. M. concolor (Harv.); leaves petiolate, oblong or elliptic, 
emarginate, coriaceous, flat, green on both sides, on both sides some- 
what netted-veined ; pedicels axillary, in 2~3’s, rather longer than 
the petiole, glabrous ; calyx glabrous, 6-partite, the lobes ovate, 
subacute ; corolla 12- (or more) partite, the segments linear. 
Eastern ReoGion: Natal; on the Tugela, Gerrard Y McKen, 1662! 
**A low tree with rough bark” (Gerrard). Leaves 14-2 in. long, } lin. wide, 
