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MIMUSOPS. 
FLowERS perfect; calyx 6 to 8-parted, the divisions in two series, those of the 
exterior valvate in estivation, the others imbricated, persistent ; corolla gamopetalous, 
6 to 8-lobed, the lobes imbricated or subcontorted in estivation and furnished at the 
base with a pair of petal-like appendages and with scale-like or petaloid staminodia ; 
stamens 6 to 8; disk 0; ovary superior, 6 to 8-celled; ovules solitary in each cell. 
Fruit a globose, usually 1-seeded berry. 
destitute of stipules. 
Mimusops, Linneus, Amen. i. 397 (1749). — A. L. de Jus- 
sieu, Gen. 152. — Meisner, Gen. 251.— Endlicher, Gen. 
741. — Bentham & Hooker, Gen. ii. 661. — Hartog, Jour. 
Bot. xvii. 358. — Engler & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. pt. i. 
150, f. 82. — Baillon, Hist. Pl. xi. 303 (in part). 
Manilkara, Adanson, Fam. Pl. ii. 166 (1763). 
Binectaria, Forskal, Fl. Agypt.-Arab. 82 (1775). 
Stisseria, Scopoli, Introd. 199 (1777). 
Imbricaria, A. L. de Jussieu, Gen. 152 (1789). — Meisner, 
Leaves alternate, coriaceous, persistent, 
Gen. 251. — Endlicher, Gen. 741. — Bentham & Hooker, 
Gen. ii. 661. 
? Phlebolithis, Gertner, Fruct. i. 201, t. 43, £. 2 (1788). 
Synarrhena, Fischer & Meyer,‘ Bull. Acad. Sci. St. Péters- 
bourg, viii. 255 (1841). — Endlicher, Gen. Suppl. iii. 81. 
Delastrea, A. de Candolle, Prodr. viii. 195 (not Tulasne) 
(1844). 
Labramia, A. de Candolle, Prodr. viii. 672 (1844). 
Hichleria, Hartog, Jour. Bot. xvi. 72 (not Progel) (1878). 
Muriea, Hartog, Jour. Bot. xvi. 145 (1878). 
Trees, or rarely shrubs, with stout terete unarmed branches, scaly buds, and sweet milky juice. 
Leaves alternate, usually clustered at the ends of the branches, petiolate, penniveined, with slender 
inconspicuous transverse veins and minutely reticulated veinlets, persistent. Flowers small, pedicellate 
from leaf-bearing or older leafless nodes. Pedicels clavate, short or elongated, ebracteolate, produced 
from the axils of minute deciduous bracts. Corolla 
hypogynous, white, barely longer than the calyx, subrotate, usually dilated in the throat, the divisions 
Calyx six to eight-lobed, the lobes in two series. 
ovate-lanceolate, acute, entire or variously cut, each furnished at the base on either side with an exterior 
petaloid appendage. Stamens inserted on the tube of the corolla opposite its lobes; filaments short, 
dilated, free, or united with the staminodia into a spreading tube; anthers lanceolate, attached on the 
back below the middle, extrorsely or sublaterally dehiscent, two-celled, the cells opening longitudinally, 
the connective excurrent, acute, or sometimes aristate at the apex. Staminodia as many as the lobes of 
the corolla, scale-like or petaloid, entire, two-lobed or laciniate, inserted in the same rank and alter- 
nately with the stamens. Ovary ovate, hirsute or puberulous, six to eight-celled, gradually narrowed 
into a slender style stigmatic at the apex; ovules solitary, attached to an axile placenta projected from 
the inner angle of the cell, subbasilar, ascending or horizontal, anatropous; raphe dorsal; micropyle 
inferior. Fruit globose or slightly obovate, one or few-seeded by abortion, tipped with a thickened 
persistent style, and surrounded at the base by the calyx; epicarp crustaceous, indurate ; endocarp thick 
and fleshy. Seed oblong-ovate, slightly compressed; testa crustaceous or hard, chestnut-brown, lus- 
trous; hilum elongated and lateral, or mmute and basilar. Embryo surrounded by thick fleshy albu- 
men; cotyledons flat, thick, and fleshy, much longer than the short terete erect radicle. 
Mimusops, with thirty or forty species,’ is widely distributed through the tropics of the two hemi- 
1 A. de Candolle, Prodr. viii. 202. — Walpers, Rep. vi. 456 ; Ann. 
iii. 18. — A. Richard, Tent. Fl. Abyss. ii. 22.—Sonder, Linnea, 
xxiii. 74. — Miquel, Jartius Fl. Brasil. vii. 39; Fl. Ind. Bat. 
i. 1042. —Grisebach, Fl. Brit. W. Ind. 400.— Bentham, Fl. Aus- 
tral. iv. 284. — Oliver, Fl. Trop. Afr. iii. 505, 508 (Imbricaria). — 
Kurz, Forest Fl. Brit. Burm. ii. 122.— Baker, Fl. Maur. and 
Seych. 194. — Hooker f. Fl. Brit. Ind. iii. 548.— Engler, Bot. Jahrb. 
mi. 523. 
