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natives, as wellas in those of the Europeans in India. 
It flowers chiefly during the hot season. 
- Trunk erect, generally from eight to twelve feet to the 
lowest branches, Bark pretty smooth. Branches exceed- 
ingly numerous, spreading, with the extremities ascend- 
ing so as to form a most elegant, globular thick head. 
Leaves alternate, short-petioled, approximated, declined 
or depending, waved, very firm, both sides of a deep shin- 
img green; from three to four inches long and one or one 
anda half broad. Stipules small, lanceolate, concave, rus- 
ty, caducous. Peduncles axillary, from one to eight, short, 
clubbed, bowing, undivided, one-flowered. Flowers mid- 
dle-sized, drooping, white and fragrant. Calyx inferior, 
eight-leaved, in a double series; leaflets lanceolate, the 
four exterior ones leathery, larger, and permanent. Corol . 
one-petalled. Tube very short, fleshy. Border ; it may be 
divided into a double series of segments, and a single nec- 
tary, or a single series of segments, and a double nectary; 
the first method I shall follow. I therefore consider the 
border to be composed of a double series of segments; 
the exterior one consists of sixteen, spreading ; the interior 
one of eight, generally contorted, and converging, all are 
lanceolate, a little torn at their extremities. Nectary eight- 
leaved, conical, ragged, hairy near the base, inserted al- 
ternately with the filaments, into the mouth of the tube, _ 
converging. Filaments eight, short, hairy. Anthers linear, 
sharp pointed, below two-parted, converging. Germ eight- 
celled, with one ovula in each attached from their middle 
to the lower end of the conic axis, The germ of Achras 
Sapota is exactly the same, only from eight to ten-celled. 
Berry oval, smooth, when ripe yellow, and edible, one or 
more celled, according to the number of seeds that ripen, 
which is generally one. Seed solitary, oblong, compress- 
ed; attached to the bottom of the cell ; covered with a_ 
smooth, hard, ‘thick integument, lined with a veined | 
.  Perisperm conform to the seed, afte lo 
