444, SAPOTACEH (Harvey). [ Mimusops. 
almost exactly oblong, obtuse at’ the base; veins and veinlets impressed on the 
upper surface, less obviously veined beneath. The flowers in my single specimen 
have been partially eaten by insects, but enough remains to establish the genus.— 
W. H. H. 
Orper LXXXIV. EBENACEZ. 
(By W. P. Hiery.) 
Flowers usually dicecious, rarely polygamous, or in foyena 
normally hermaphrodite, regular, 3-8-merous. Calyx free, often 
more or less accrescent in fruit, not coralline, persistent. Corolla 
hypogynous, gamopetalous, coralline, deciduous ; lobes entire, sinis- 
trorsely contorted in bud as seen from above, usually spreading or 
reflexed in open flower. Stamens in the male and hermaphrodite 
flowers 3 or more, in the female flowers 0, or represented by usually 
few staminodes ; filaments inserted at the base of the corolla-tube or 
on the receptacle usually in one or two rows, those in the same pair 
in different rows, rather short; anthers 2-celled, basifixed, not 
connate, mostly linear-lanceolate and dehiscing laterally, the con- 
nective shortly produced at the apex beyond the cells; pollen 
spherical or spheroidal, smooth, often marked with three furrows. 
Disk usually 0. Ovary free, sessile, entire, in the male flowers 
abortive, rudimentary or obsolete, in the female and hermaphrodite 
flowers 2-16-celled; ovules solitary or two together in the cells, 
pendulous, anatropous, twice as numerous as the styles or branches 
of the single style ; stigmas small or somewhat dilated, emarginate. 
Fruit baccate, fleshy or coriaceous, usually few-celled; seeds usually 
few or solitary, pendulous, exarillate, albuminous, usually marked 
with two or three impressed veins or lines proceeding from the base 
to the apex ; testa coriaceous, not rough, usually thin; albumen 
copious, cartilaginous, equable or sometimes ruminated ; embryo 
dicotyledonous, axile or somewhat oblique, straight or somewhat 
curved, 1% as long as the seed; radicle superior, cylindrical ; coty- 
ledons foliaceous, ovate or lanceolate, as long as or longer than the 
radicle, their medial plane perpendicular to that of the carpel. 
Trees or shrubs, in a few species climbing, rarely spiny ; wood of the middle of 
the trunk hard, in many species heavy, durable and often black ; sap limpid, not 
turning milky nor coagulating; leaves normally alternate and entire, often 
distichous or with an angular divergence of two-fifths, simple, more or less coria- 
ceous, usually opaque and unicostate at the base, pinniveined, in most species 
evergreen ; hairs simple, usually 1-celled ; stomata confined to the lower face of 
the leaves; stipules 0; flowers cymose, racemose or solitary, axillary or lateral, 
rather small or of moderate size, never blue; peduncles or pedicels usually 
bracteate. 
Distris. Genera 6; species about 350, widely distributed over the warmer 
regions of the world; more than 70 additional fossil species have been described. 
I, Royena.—Flowers hermaphrodite or rarely subdioscious, 4—8-merous, often 
solitary. Calyw normally accrescent. Stamens usually 10, in one row. 
Phellogen usually pericyclic. 
II. Euclea.—Flowers normally dioecious, 4-7-merous, racemose or paniculate. 
