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Caljx-segments 2-seriate. 

 Caljx-segments 4. 



Stamens 8 3. Isonandra. 



Stamens 12 or more 4. Bassia. 



Calyx-segments 0-8. 



t-'taminodes 5. Pauaquium. 



Staminodes 6 or 8 6. Mimusops. 



1. CHRYSOPHYLLUM, Linn. 



Trees with milky juice. Leaves coriaceous ; stipules 0. Flowers 

 small, in axillary fascicles, pedicellate or subsessile. Calyx 5-6-partite ; 

 lobes subequal, imbricate. Corolla-lobes 5-6, entire, imbricate. Stamens 

 as many as the corolla-lobes and opposite to thein, attached to the tube 

 or the base of the lobes ; filaments subulate or filiform ; anthers ovate 

 or triangular ; staminodes 0. Ovary villous, 5-6 (rarely 7-10) -celled ; 

 style glabrous, short or long. Berry fleshy or coriaceous, globose. 

 Seeds 5-6 (or fewer) ; testa coriaceous, dull or shining ; hilum elongate. 

 — DiSTRiB. Chiefly Tropical American, a few species in Africa, Asia, 

 and Austi'alia ; species about 60. 



1. Chrysophyllum Roxburghii, G. Don, Gen. Syst. v. 4 

 (1837) p. 33. A slender ti-ee reaching 40-50 ft. high ; branches 

 horizontal ; bark smooth, grey ; young parts clothed with fulvous pubes- 

 cence. Leaves 3-5 by Ij- 2 in., distichously spreading, oblong-lanceo- 

 late, caudate-acuminate, glabrous, shining; main nerves very numerous, 

 nearly perpendicular to the midrib, fine, conspicuous, uniting within the 

 margin, so close as to give the leaves a striate appearance ; petioles 

 ■^in. long. Flowers numerous, in rounded clusters ; pedicels ^ in. long, 

 recurved. Calyx -^^ in. long, broadly campanulate ; lobes equalling 

 the tube, rounded, densely ciliate. Stamens included. Ovary densely 

 hairy; style short, conical, glabrous. Fruit 1-1^ in. in diam., globose, 

 obscurely 5-6-angled (strongly so when dry), tomentose when young, 

 afterwards smooth, yellowish-green, edible. Seeds 5-6, ellipsoid, com- 

 pressed, |-| by |-| in., the inner edge straight, the outer curved, liighly 

 polished, very hard, brownish-yellow. Fl. B. I. v. 3, p. 535 ; Dalz. & 

 Gibs. p. 138'; Talb. Trees, Bomb. ed. 2, p. 205 ; Watt, Diet. Econ. 

 Prod. v. 2, p. 273. Chrj/sophijUum acuminatum, Roxb. Fl. Lid. v. 1 , 

 p. 599 ; Grab. Cat. p. 105. — Flowers : Apr.-May. Yeun. Tarsi. 



KoNKA.v: Sfocksl; evergreen forests, Talbot. S. M. CorNTRY : Ohorla Gh^t 

 (Belgaum districts), Bitchiel, Stocksl, BaLell l^- Gibson. Kanaka: evergreen forests 

 of N. Kanara, common, Talbot. 



The fruit, which is called the Star Apple, is pulpy and glutinous, and is eaten by the 

 natives though not very palatable. — Distrib. India (Assam, Khasia, Silhet, W. 

 Peninsula); Ceylon, Malacca. 



Chrysophi/lhim Cainito, Linn. Sp. PL (1753) p. 192. A tree, a native 

 of the West Indian islands, occasionally though rarely cultivated in 

 India. A tree is to be found at Kbandala in the Poona districts. 

 Leaves 3-5 by 1|-2| in,, elliptic-oblong, obtuse or shortly acuminate, 

 glabrous and shining above, densely silky with golden or rufous pubes- 

 cence beneath, base shortly acute; main nerves numerous, slender, 

 nearly perpendicular to the strong midncrve ; petioles ]-^ in. Ion"-. 



