MimusopsJ] Lxxi. sapotace.^. 



285 



short; anthers sagittate, acuminate; staminodia 8, alternatincr ^vitli the 

 stamens, linear-lanceolate, with long awn-like points and a few long cilia 

 near the base. Ovary densely hirsute, 8-celled; ovules erect from the inner 

 angle. Fruit nearly globular. Seeds erect, oblong, more or less compressed ; 

 lulum small, orbicular, almost basal; albumen copious.— A. DC. Prod. vuL 

 203; F. Muell. Fragm. v. 162. 



N. Australia. Careening Bay, N.W. Coast, A. Cumilngliam. 



Queensland- Cape York, W. mil; islands of Cape Flinders, A. Cuminglmm; 

 tttuary of the Burdekin, Fiizalan ; Port Deuison, Edgecombe and Rockingham Bays, 



Very nearly allied to the common Indian M. Elengi, differing chiefly in the looser, usaally 

 rusty pubescence, ia the longer peduncles, smaller flowers, and much narrower cal^cine seg- 

 ments. 



2. M. Browniana, Benih. A tree of irregular growth. Leaves on 

 rather long petioles, obovate, broadly ovate or almost orbicular, very obtuse, 

 thickly coriaceous, finely and almost parallel veined, wbitisli or almost rusty 

 underiieath. riowers* in tlie upper axils (clustered at tlie ends ot the 

 branches) on recurved pedicels shorter than the petioles. Calyx-segments b, 

 in two rows, ovate-lanceolate, acute, about 3 lines long, reflexed under tlie 

 fruit but not enlarged. Corolla (in Malayan specimens) scarcely longer tUan 

 the calyx, with 12 outer and 6 inner lobes, all narrow, acute the inner ones 

 almost stipitate. Stamens 6, opposite the inner lobes ; anthers acuminate ; 

 starainodia 6, alternating with them, petal-like, as long as the corolla, jagged 

 at the end. Ovary 6 -celled ; ovules erect from the inner angle, fruit 

 ovoid or almost globular, at least 1 in. long. Seeds 1 or 2, l^i-gj. ?«°f J 

 less compressed ; hilura broadly linear, more than half the lengtli ot tne seeu. 

 -M. KauU, R. Br. Prod. 531, not of Linn. ; M. Kauh, var. Broicmam, 

 A. DC. Prod. viii. 203. 



Queensland. Islands off Cape Fear. B. Brown; Cape riinders Rod.l's Bay and 

 Endeavour river, A. Cunningharn /islands off Cape Bedford Ilowick ^Groap, ^. i/ ^f '• - 

 '''so m the Indian Archipelago {Java, Korsfield) and the ^Malayan Peninsula {Uu£iUi). 



The Australian specimens I have seen are in fruit only, with more or '-^^^ "/^'^^^^^''Xh 

 fn. but they agree in eveiy respect with Griffith's and Horsfield s ^W^^^^^^^^^ ^ J ^J 

 I tave described the flower. Hermann's Cingalese speeiinen of Linn^us s M. ^^«^;^ ™ 



Jrown thought might be the same, appears to me to be t^! ^Y/^f.^'f ' ^^.f^.i^uUivated 

 from our plant in several respects. M. Bojeri, A. DC. descrfbed from speamras cuU'J 



'"the botanical garden of Mauritius, and"^ referred (^vith M. f/"^"'^ ^) ° ^- ''""'' '^ 

 W'auel. cannot well, from the character given, be the same as M. Browniana. 



EBENACE^ 



Flowers regular, usually dioecious. Calyx free, 3- to S-lo^e^ or rarely 

 ^"^ 6 or 7 lobes. Corolla-lobes as many as those of the caly^, i^^^' ^' ^ ^^ 

 tl^e bud, usually contorted. Stamens inserted in the base f t^\e7[;;. 

 «n the torus within it, indefinite, usually from 10 to 20 m t^e ^^ ^s opeu- 

 ^^^ sterile in the females ; anthers erect, linear or lanceolate ^^ celts ope 

 i"g m longitudinal slits. Ovary free, 3- or more-celled, with l/>^ ~. r^\^„, 

 1°^.^ ovules in each cell. Styles as many or half as ^lany as ce U. di.tmct o 

 ^^ited into a simple or 2-cleft style, with small termmal stigma=. i^ruit 



