"](> Sapotacece. \Sideroxylon. 



inserted at base of cor.-lobes; no staminodes; ov. 5- (or 6-) 

 celled, style simple, pointed; fruit a solid fleshy berry; seeds 5 

 (or 6), large, compressed, with a linear hilum down one side, 

 with endosperm. — Sp. 60; i in Fl. B. hid. (mostly American). 



C Rozburg-hii, G. Don, Gen. Syst. iv. 33 (1838). Iiawulu, S. 



Thw. Enum. 174. C. P. 2689. 



FI. B. Ind. iii. 535. Bedd. Fl. Sylv. t. 236. 



A rather slender erect tree of moderate size, branches 

 horizontal, bark smooth, grey, young parts with dense fulvous 

 pubescence ; 1. numerous, spreading distichously, 3-7 in., 

 shortly petiolate, lanceolate-oblong, acute and somewhat 

 unequal-sided at base, suddenly caudate-acuminate, obtuse, 

 somewhat undulate, glabrous and shining on both sides when 

 mature, or with a few hairs on midrib beneath, lat. veins very 

 numerous, conspicuous, fine, horizontal, parallel, uniting with 

 an intramarginal one ; fl. small, on slender, glabrous or rusty- 

 pubescent ped., rather numerous, in rounded clusters ; cal. 

 glabrous, segm. rounded, very obtuse, rather unequal ; cor. 

 broadly campanulatc, lobes short, rounded, woolly-ciliate ; 

 stam. short, included; berry about i| in., ovoid-globose, very 

 obscurely 5-sided, ferrugineous-tomentose when young, after- 

 wards smooth, yellowish-green ; seeds about f in., ovoid, some- 

 what compressed, the inner edge straight, the outer curved, 

 brownish-yellow, highly polished, very hard. 



Moist region up to 3000 ft.; rather common. Fl. Sept.; greenish- 

 white. 



Also in S. India, Assam, Burma, and Malaya. 



The Ceylon tree agrees with C. su»iatra?iu/n, Miq., of Sumatra, con- 

 sidered merely a variety of C. RoxbiirgJiii by most authors. The leaves 

 are veined like a Calophyllum. 



Wood yellowish-white, even-grained, light. The berries are eaten by 

 natives, but have a very viscous pulp. 



2. SIDEROXVIiON, L. 



Small tree, twigs often spinous, 1. alt., entire; fl. in axillary 

 clusters; cal. -segm. 5, strongly imbricate; cor.-tube campanu- 

 latc, lobes 5, imbricate, stam. 5, alternating with 5 flat lanceolate 

 staminodes; ov, 5-celled, style very long, simple, persistent; 

 berry globose, apiculate, smooth ; seed usually solitary (others 

 abortive), broadly ovoid, slightly compressed, hilum linear- 

 oblong, with endosperm. — Sp. 60 ; 7 in Fl. B. hid. 



