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Ovary villous, ovoid, 6-celled ; ovules elliptic ; style exsert, -4 in. 

 long, slender. Fruit an ovoid rough berry, -1 in. long, 2-4:-seeded. 

 Seeds obliquely obovoid, somewhat curved near the base, "6 to -7 in. 

 long by "4 to "5 in. broad and '4 in, thick ; hilum lateral towards the 

 base, -35 in. long, linear-oblong ; testa thick, crustaceous, chestnut- 

 brown ; albumen thin ; cotyledons fiat, leafy, oblong, -3 to -35 in. long ; 

 radicle inferior, rather large. Wall. Cat. 4149e {upper half) ; A. DC. 

 Prod. VIII. 203 ; Clarke in Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. III. 549 ; Miq. Fl. lad. 

 Bat. II. 1042; Koord. & Val. Bijdr. I. 156; Burck in Ann. Jard. 

 Buit. V. (1886) 64. M. Balata, Gaertn. f. Fruct. III. 133. M. Balota, 

 Bl. Bijdr. 673. M. Hookari, A. DC. Prod. VIII. 204. M. Bojeri, A. DC. 

 I.e. 205 {fide Miquel). M. dissecta, E. Br. Prod. 531. M. Broiuniana, 

 Benth. Fl. Austral. IV. 285.— Eumph. Herb. Amb. iii. 19. t. 8 

 flor. exc. 



Pebak : Scortechini. Malacca : Griffith (K.D.) 3614 ; Maingay 

 (K.D.) 987.— DiSTEiB. Amherst in Burma, Wallich ; Malay Islands; 

 tropical Australia — cultivated elsewhere for its edible fruit. 



The following new species from the Andaman Islands seems worthy 

 of description here. 



MiMusops ANDAMANENSis, King & Gamble, n. sp. A tree (?) ; branchlets slender, 

 grey ; innovations, with inflorescence and leaf -petioles, covered with appressed pale 

 tawny tomentum. Leaves coriaceous ; elliptic-obovate, shortly acute at apex, cuneate 

 at base ; margins recurved ; glabrous on both surfaces ; 3 to 4 in. long, 2 to 3 in. 

 broad ; midrib slender ; main-nerves about 15 pairs, parallel, very inconspicuous, 

 secondary nerves similar to main-nerves, less prominent ; petiole slender, '75 to 1 in. 

 long, channelled above. Inflorescence of 1-3-flowered sessile umbels in the axils of the 

 upper leaves ; pedicels slender, -8 to 1 in. long, angular ; buds ovoid-conical, -4 in. 

 long. Calyx-lobes 8 in 2 series ; outer 4 lanceolate, acuminate, valvate, reflexed when 

 open, -4 to -5 in. long ; inner 4 as long, linear-lanceolate, deeply channelled on the 

 back, scarcely imbricate. Corolla-lobes 24, the inner series of 8, oblong-lanceolate, 

 glabrous, obtuse, each bearing behind it two narrow acute, simple or deeply bifid lobes, 

 rather shorter than and narrower than the 8 inner lobes. Stamens 8, opposite the 

 inner corolla-lobes, and shorter than them ; filaments slender, slightly hirsute, -075 in. 

 long ; anthers linear-sagittate, the connective produced in a long apiculus, often bifid. 

 Staminodes alternate with the stamens and rather shorter than them, densely hirsute, 

 linear-lanceolate, long acuminate, midrib black. Ovary rounded, 8-lobed, pubescent ; 

 style subulate, glabrous, stigma minutely cleft ; cells 8, each with a narrow central 

 ovule. Fruit unknown. 



Hill jungle near Port Mouat, S. Andaman, King's Collector. 



In the characters of the corolla-lobes this species seems to be intermediate 

 between Miiausojjs and Imhricaria, and, since Engler has recently reduced Imhricaria 

 to a section of Mimusops, we have no hesitation in describing it under that genus. 



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