3. Aedibia.1 67. MYRSIJXAQEM. [1. Sideboxylok, 



- Fls. March-May. 



Twig 8 rusty tomentose as also to some extent are the petioles and 

 inflorescence. L. lanceolate or oblong-lanc. acuminate 2-4", beneath 

 with numerous scattered rusty scales or glands and few above, seen, very 

 fine numerous. Umbels cymose on peduncles 1-1* long, axillary or 

 clustered on small shoots. Pedicels -g-i". Calyx-lobes spreading pubes- 

 cent acute. Petals waxy white with pink or brown scales, \'' long. Berry 

 globose £'' diam. (fide F.B.L) 



Fam. 68. SAPOTACE^l. 



Trees or*shrubs often with milky juice, with the innova- 

 tions often rusty pubescent. L. alt. coriacious entire ; Sti~ 

 pules or caducous. Fls. small or mod.-sized axillary (often 

 from leafless axils) and fascicled, bracts and bracteoles minute 

 or 0. Calyx persistent, lobes 4-8 imbricated, or 2-seriate with 

 the outer series valrate. Petals as many as, or 2-4-times as 

 many as, the calyx lobes. St, on the corolla-tube as many as 

 the petals and opp. to them or 2-3 seriate, if isomerous with 

 the petals then with alternating staminodes, Fil. short, 

 Ovary superior, 2-8-celled; style linear, stigma' a -point, 

 ovules solitary in each cell usually axile. Berry indehiscent, 

 1-8 seeded. Testa usually crustaceous. Embryo straight, 

 exalbuminous with large cotyledons, or albuminous ; radicle 

 inferior. 



Calyx-lobes and petals each 5 and imbricate . . .1. Sideroxylon. 

 Calyx- lobes 4, 2-seriate, petals 6-12 . • . .2. Bassia. 

 Calyx-lobes 6-8, 2-seriate, petals 16-20, 2-3-seriate • 3. Mimusops. 



1. Sideroxylon, L. 



1. S. tomentosum, Boxo. 



A small tree with tomentose twigs, and branches often 

 armed with straight spines §-§* long, with elliptic obovate 

 or oblanceolate leaves,- tomentose or very hairy beneath, 

 smallish white flowers solitary or fascicled from the old leaf 

 scars'-and yellowish sub-globose or ovoid fruit 1-1 J" diam. 



Valleys in the Latua and the Saranda forests* but not common ; S. P. 

 (stream near Bokra-band, Karcho, etc.) Fla. May-June, Fr. ripens the 

 following April. 



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