Maba.} SAPOTACEAE. 275 
9” high, pubescent when young, 3-celled, with 1 seed in each oe but 
shed 1-seeded when mature. Seeds oblong, with thin testa and 
ooth albumen. Cotyledons half the length of the radicle, chipliate, 
sotto obtuse. — Gray, in. Proc. Am. Ac. V, 327. 
Oahu! Molokai!. Lanai! Maui! Hawaii! Hilo, Nat. name: «Lama». The seeds 
are eaten by the natives. 
8 var. — Leaves ovate or ovate-oblong, broadly rounded at the base, 
even emarginate, acute e or somewhat obtuse, sometimes approximately or- 
bicular, generally with some aie underneath, much larger than in «. 
Hawaii! Kona Ba Kau, leaves 2—3’ 2 ‘ on petioles of 3—4”; Kauai! Waimea, 
leaves £5! x 2—2!/2! on petioles of 4—6” 
2. M. Hillebrandii, Seem. in Fl. Vit. p. 151. — A tree of the same 
size as before. Leaves oblong, 3—5‘  2'/:—2‘, on petioles of 2, ob- 
tuse, moderately contracted or rounded, sometimes emarginate at the 
base, entire, glabrous , dark-green, pes smooth on the lower face, 
but deeply rugose on the upper by a close and fine net of areoles. 
Bracts and calyx glabrate, the latter 3, coriaceous, trifid almost to the 
middle with broad triangular acute lobes. Corolla 31/2“, hairy, shortly 
3-toothed. Stamens 9, short, oe ge with pointed anthers. Fruit 
obovoid, pubescent at the apex only, 9—12” long. 
Aa i on Oahu! inne’ in the hills of Kahuku and Waialua, also in Makaleha 
OrpeR XLVIII. SAPOTACEAE. 
Calyx free, of 4—8, usually 5 divisions or 7a Corolla regular, 
divided into as many or rarely twice as many lo stamens adnate, 
either equal in number to the lobes of the gh an esta to we 
or twice as many, besides which there are 0: 
stamens alternating with the fertile — or sean ine mle ee 
Poepadl the lobes of the corolla. Ovary superior, 2- or more-celled, with 
1 ascending or ass ovule in each ce ell. Style simple, entire or 
slightly lobed. Fruit a berry or drupe, usually indehiscent. Seeds either 
With a fleshy Melee and foliaceous cotyledons, or without albumen and 
with fleshy cotyledons. — Trees shrubs with milky juice. Leaves 
alternate, entire, usually coriaceous aat without stipules. Flowers axillary, 
ze lustered, 
Order widely distributed over both Worlds within the tropics or not spreading far 
beso th them. To bg Ree the Sapotilla Plum, Achras Sapota, L., and a Mexican Bumelia, 
vated i 
Corolla 5-lobed, Hei ababiii within the sinuses of its lobes: 
fruit large globose, with 5—2 secds 1. Siderozylon. 
Corolla heya sh without staminodia ; fruit oliveshaped, with : 
genera. . 2 Chrysophyllum. 
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