Chrysophyllum| LXXVIII. SAPOTACES. 643 
polished at least on one side, 2 in. long, 2 in. broad, 2 in. thick, 
-exalbuminous; embryo (when dry) ellipsoidal, 4 in. long, $ in. 
broad, 1} in. thick ; cotyledons semi-ellipsoidal, subequal; radicle 
small; young fruit, as well as the branchlets, emitting a whitish 
milky juice, tipped with the more or less persistent style which is 
hairy at the base. 
Go.tunGo ALTo.—In the less dense forests among the mountains of 
‘Queta, sporadic ; young fr. end of Aug. 1855. No. 4812, and Cott. 
Carp. 696. Queta; fr. Sept. 1855. Cort. Carp, 700 and No. 4820. 
Queta ; without either fl. or fr. Oct. 1855. Probably this species. 
No. 4819. 
The natives call this plant “ Disaco,” and it is doubtless the same 
as that mentioned by Welwitsch, Apont., p. 552 under n. 107, by 
the name “ Dicaso’’ ; according to a ms. note of his, the fruit has 
intoxicating effects when eaten in some quantity. Ficalho, Pl. Uteis, 
p. 209 (1884) referred the plant to Sideroxylon, and had previously in 
Bol. Soc. Geogr. Lisb., Ser. 3, p. 479, united it with Sapota cerasifera 
Welw., which is a Chrysophyllum. Although in the absence of the 
flowers it is impossible to feel sure about the genus, it appears to me 
better to place it under Chrysophyllum. No. 4819, which I have men- 
tioned under this species, should also be compared with C. cerasiferum ; 
the two species differ by the latter having shorter peduncles, and, 
according to Ficalho, by the shape of the leaves. 
7. C. cerasiferum. 
Sapota cerasifera Welw. Apont. p. 585. n. 17 (1859). 
A handsome tree of 20 to 30 ft. with a widely spreading ever- 
green head, or an extensive tree with the habit somewhat of 
Machilus odoratissima Nees, well worth cultivating ; branchlets 
dark-ashy, nodulose, leafy especially towards the apex, glabrate 
except the tips; leaves alternate, obovate or elliptical, obtuse or 
subcuspidate at the apex, wedge-shaped at the base, rigidly 
coriaceous, rather shining, glabrate, entire, narrowly revolute on 
the margin, 3 to 8 in. long by 1 to 3 in. broad, exstipulate ; lateral 
veins 8 to 12 on each side of the midrib, clearly marked on the 
lower face but rather slender, narrowly depressed on the upper 
face ; midrib strong beneath ; reticulation inconspicuous, depressed ; 
petiole 1 to + in. long ; flowers about +4 in. long, often precocious, 
on shorter puberulous peduncles, crowded in approximated axillary 
or lateral clusters ; calyx 1 in. long, turbinate-ovoid, 5-cleft ; the 
lobes ovate or rounded, much imbricate, erect, puberulous outside ; 
corolla glabrous, the tube short, the lobes 5, revolute, ovate, sub- 
acute, ;4, in. long ; stamens 5, glabrous, opposite the corolla-lobes 
and shorter than them, about 5}; in. long ; anthers nearly as long 
as the filaments, ovate, acuminate ; filaments flattened, sublinear, 
revolute with the corolla-lobes; ovary hairy, conical; style 
columnar, subglabrous towards the apex, undivided, exserted ; 
fruit in size and taste like a large cherry, (in the dry state) about 
an inch long, very well flavoured but slightly pungent, glabrate, 
with the not much increased adpressed calyx at the base, and 
apiculate at the apex with the base of the broken style ; fruiting 
peduncle about + in. long, the fruiting calyx } to 3 in. in diameter ; 
