four to eight, and the rudimentary ovary is cylindrical. 
The female flowers are solitary on the rhachis, the pedi- 
cels ca. 1 mm. long, the sepals 5-6 mm. long, the hairy 
ovary is two to three-loculed tipped by papillose, two- 
lobed, sessile stigmas. The fruits, are 2.5-8 cm. in diame- 
ter, glabrous, cream white, ripening yellowish, pinkish 
buff or bright red, in strings 15-80 cm. long. The seeds are 
enclosed inaratheropaque, cream-white pulp(Plate XV). 
The kanazo, referred to Pierardia sapota by Pickering 
(1879), has been known by the Burmese since 1539 B.C., 
when the country was first inhabited. Mason describes 
the fruit as ‘‘one of the best and most plentiful of the 
jungle fruits, and the bunches resemble large grapes. ”’ 
The distribution of this tree is the most extensive 
of the cultivated species of Baccaurea. It occurs wild as 
well as under cultivation in Nepal, India, Burma, south- 
ern China, Indo-China, Thailand, the Andaman Islands, 
and the Malay Peninsula. In India (Pax, 1922) and in 
Malaya (Corner, 1952), it is the most commonly culti- 
vated species. Corner reported (1952) that pupor seems 
to be the only kind of Baccaurea, other than the ubiqui- 
tous rambai, that is cultivated in Malaya. In Rangoon, 
the fruits are plentiful (Watt, 1899). The fruits vary 
considerably in the color of the rind when ripe, and ap- 
parently there are some varieties with yellow fruits and 
rose-pink pulp around the seeds. The pupor is distin- 
guished from the ramba: by its smaller glabrous leaves 
which are basally tapering. 
ORIGIN AND DISTRIBUTION 
There is no serious problem as to the origin and dis- 
tribution of the species of Baccaurea. The area of distri- 
bution of the genus extends from India to the Pacific 
through Ceylon, the Andaman Islands, south China, 
Indo-China, Burma, Thailand, the Malay Peninsula, the 
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