276 SAPOTACEAE. [Sideroxylon. 
1. SIDEROXYLON, L. 
Calyx 5—6-parted, the lobes imbricate. Corolla tubular- campanulate, 
5—6-lobed, the lobes imbricate in the bud. Staminodia 5—6, eit ther 
the stamen n 
retrorsely tedleess in a bud, an te extrorse. Ovary 5- (4—2-)celled, 
with mostly a short style. Fruit a berry. Seeds 5—1, with a shining 
hard testa and an oblique-basilar or linear lateral hilum or rhaphe, albu- 
minous. Cotyledons broad cm gieam radicle very short. — Milky trees 
with coriaceous parallel-veined leaves. Flowers in axillary clusters. 
About 60 species, partons between the tropics of both Worlds, a few species only 
occuring outside the 
Pedicels 6—9"; lobes - se am stig! Ray or rounded; fila- 
ts 
ments inserted at the bottom of the ¢ 1. S. Sandwicense. 
nipgre 2—3”; lobes of calyx wild corolla Subang ‘acute; filaments 
nserted at the middle of the corolla 2. S. spathulatum. 
1. S. Sandwicense. — Benth. & Hook. Gen. Pl. opr 655. — A tall tree, 
20—50 ft. high, conspicuous in forests by its reddish foliage, the young 
ceous, obovate-oblong, 3—6‘ >< 11/2—3’, on petioles of 1—1',2 ‘, equally 
rounded at rae ends or contracted at the base, quite entire, glabrous 
on both faces, shining, the main veins prominent, straight and close, 
including Meanie areoles and connected by a continuous intramarginal 
nerve. Flowers in clusters of 2—4, on naked pedicels of 6—9". Calyx 
tomentose, coriaceous, 5-parted to near the base, 3”, the broad lobes 
obtuse or rounded (2 ext., 3 int.). Corolla reddish, as long as the calys, 
tubular, 5-parted to the middle, the lobes obtuse, erect (1 ext., 1 int.). 
Staminodia linear-lanceolate, shorter than the lobes but veined like them, 
with a faint not decurrent nerve, inserted before the sinus. Stamens 
5, enclosed, inserted near the base of the corolla, hairy below; the anthers 
erect, ovate, searcely sagittate, bluntish, their cells confluent at the ape* 
Ov 
and opening laterally. ary hirsute with stiff hairs, 5-celled, with 
1 ascending ovule in each cell. Style short conical, grooved at the apex- 
Berry globose, depressed, 1‘ in diameter, rather dry, 5—I1-seeded, drupa 
ceous, each seed enclosed in a thin chartaceous pyrena, 9‘’ long, elongate 
compressed when many, rather ventricose Sis single or few, the crust@ 
ceous testa fawn-colored and shining, the elongate scar of the rhaphe 
occupying nearly the whole ventral angle. Cotyledons nearly as long 
and broad as the albumen, the minute radicle inferior. — Sapot a Sand- 
wicensis, Gray, in Proc. Am. Ac. V, 328. 
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bird-glue. The fruit, of the size of a crab- -apple, is dry and insipid, but rarely met with, 
