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8. MiMUSOPS, Linn. 



Trees with milky juice. Leaves chartaceous or coriaceous, with 

 many usually inconspicuous parallel main-nerves. Floivers solitary or 

 fascicled in the axils of the upper leaves on the branchlets. Calyx-lobes 

 6 or 8, in 2 series, the outer valvate enclosing the inner imbricate. 

 Corolla with short tube ; lobes 18 or 24 or more in 2 rows, one-third 

 of the number in the inner, the rest in the outer, row ; lobes of the outer 

 row often divided.* Stamens 6 or 8, attached to the corolla-tube opposite 

 the inner lobes ; filaments short, dilated, free or connate in a tube with 

 the staminodes ; anthers lanceolate, extrorse, usually apiculate by the 

 production of the connective. Staminodes alternate with and as many 

 as the stamens, sub-petaloid, usually fimbriate. Ovary hirsute, 6-8-celled. 

 Fruit a globose or ovate fleshy berry, epicarp crustaceous ; seeds few 

 or solitary. Seeds ovate or oblong, often oblique, slightly compressed ; 

 hilum basal or lateral ; testa hard, shining ; albumen fleshy, thin ; 

 cotyledons flat, leafy. — Distrib. Species about 30 ; in the tropics of 

 both hemispheres. 



Calyx-segments 8 ; stamens 8 ; staminodes acuminate, hairy .. 1. M. Elengi. 



Calyx-segments 6 ; stamens 6 ; staminodes fimbriate, glabrous . . 2. M. Kauki. 



1. MiMUSOPS Elengi, Linn. Sp. PI. 349 (1753). An evergreen tree, 

 stems reaching 40 to 50 feet in height, and with a large girth ; ultimate 

 branchlets with dark brown rusty pubescence. Leaves chartaceous;. 

 elliptic, shortly acuminate at apex, rounded (often unequally), at base ; 

 glabrous on both surfaces, shining above ; margins slightly recurved ; 3 

 to 5 in. long, 1-5 to 2-5 in. broad ; midrib prominent, raised on both sur- 

 faces ; main-nerves numerous, the first pair from the base forming intra- 

 marginal nerves, which are looped where they meet the 14 to 16 pairs of 

 main-nerves ; secondary nerves like the main-nerves and, with the reticu- 

 lations, forming an elegant network ; petiole '6 to 1 in. long, slender ;. 

 stipules triangular-subulate, very small, ferruginous-pubescent, very 

 caducous. Floivers white, fragrant, solitary or in fascicles of 2 to 6 in the 

 axils of the upper leaves ; pedicels "3 to •? in. long, often deflexed,. 

 appressed-ferruginous-pubescent ; buds ovoid, acute. Calyx-lobes 8, "3 in. 

 long, ovate-lanceolate, acuminate ; the 4 outer valvate, broader than the 

 4 inner imbricate an^d channelled on the back ; all rusty-pubescent 

 without, glabrous within. Corolla with a very short tube, scarcely 

 over -05 in. long ; lobes 24, in 2 rows, the 16 outer linear-lanceolate, 

 the 8 inner rather broader and shorter, linear-oblong. Stamens 8, 



* The outer corolla-lobes are now usually considered to be of the character of 

 stipules to the inner row which constitute the regular petals. 



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