274 SAPOTACEJE. (SAPODILLA FAMILY.) 
Orver 82. SAPOTACEJE. (Saropira Fauy.) 
Trees or shrubs, with milky juice, alternate entire exstipulate short- 
petioled leaves, and regular perfect (small) flowers, commonly in sessile 
axillary clusters. — Calyx free from the 3-12-celled ovary, 4 — 8-parted, 
persistent. Corolla hypogynous, 4— 8-cleft, mostly with one or two ap- 
` pendages between each lobe. Fertile stamens as many as the lobes of the 
-corolla and opposite them, alternating with as many scale-like or petal- 
like sterile ones, inserted on the tube of the corolla: anthers extrorse. 
Ovules anatropous, single, suspended from the central angle of each cell, 
or ascending from its base. Fruit a drupe or berry. Seeds few. Albu- 
men fleshy or oily, or none. Embryo straight. 
Synopsis. 
* Calyx 5-parted. 
+ Corolla with a single appendage between the lobes. 
1. SIDEROXYLON. Sterile stamens none. Fruita drupe. Albumen copious. 
+ + Corolla with two appendages between the lobes.  - 
2. DIPHOLIS. Seed with copious albumen. Sterile stamens fimbriate. Ovary smooth. 
3. BUMELIA. Seed without albumen. Sterile stamens entire. Ovary hairy. 
* * Calyx 6 - 8-parted. 
4. MIMUSOPS. Appendages of the corolla two between the lobes, Stamens 6-8. 
1. SIDEROXYLON, L. 
Calyx 4-parted. Corolla 5-cleft, with a single appendage between the lobes. 
Stamens 5, the sterile ones none. Ovary hairy, 5-celled. Drupe mostly 1-celled, 
l-seeded. Albumen copious. — Tropical trees. Flowers clustered. 
on pallidum, Spreng. Smooth; leaves membranaceous, elliptical, ob- 
tuse, wavy on the margins, on slender petioles; clusters few-flowered ; drapes 
purplish, ovoid. — South Florida. — Leaves 5'- 6! long. Drupe 9" long. 
2. DIPHOLIS, A. DC. 
Calyx 5-parted. Corolla 5-cleft, with two toothed appendages between the 
lobes. Stamens 5, each alternating with an ovate-lanceolate fimbriate sterile one 
Ovary smooth. Berry juiceless, 1-seeded. Albumen copious, fleshy. — A 
tree, with silky branches. Leaves smooth, oblong-lanceolate, obtuse, 
into a short petiole. Flowers clustered, on short pedicels. 
I. D. salicifolia, A. DC. — South Florida, Dr. Blodgett. Leaves hi 
long. Calyx silky. Drupe small, oblong. : 
2 o5... 9. BUMELIA, Swatz —— annie 
~ Stamens 5, each alternating with a petal-like sterile one. ‘Ovary 5-celled, hairy- : 
