Piate 2690. 
SARCOSPERMA PANICULATUM, Stapf and King. 
SAPOTACER, 
S. paniculatum, Stapf et King ; a S. arboreo, Hook f., inflorescentia 
"stoning paulo minoribus, a ceteris generis speciebus foliorum 
orma 
Arbor 50-70 ped. alta, glabra, trunco 15-20 poll. crasso, ramulorum 
cortice nigricante. Folia opposita vel vivta! * le haa tie Soe 
vel subovata , Subacuminata, basi rotundata, 3} ~85 poll. lon wk 
fusco-nigricantia, secundum costam foveolis (domatiis) munita, nervis 
utrinque 5-8 curvatis, venis transversis obliquis laxis pleram in- 
conspicuis. ores paniculati (rarius racemosi), in pan rg ramis 
divaricatis subsessiles, ~ ractea minuta suffulti ; sasditszi (vel 
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ascendentia. Fructus drupaceus, ellipsoideus, (immaturus) 9 lin. 
ongus ; erry —2.—Bracea paniculata, King, Mat. a Mal. 
Penins. p. 9 (Journ. Asiat. Soc. of Bengal, LXIV. ii. p. 101) ; 
Engler in Engl & Prantl, Natiirl. Pflanzenf. Nachtr. p. 149. 
Matay Peninsuna: Perak, in sol sats old jungle on the tops of low 
hills, 300-500 ft. , King’s collect 
The examination of the material of this pee in the Kew 
Tne has resulted in the reduction of the us Bracea, de- 
ribed as a member of the Olacacee, to Sar paren ee .—OrTto Starr 
AND G. ies 
Fig. 1, a bud; 2, a flower; 3, a calyx and pistil; 4, corolla; 5, part of a corojla 
has dictiata flattened out; 6 longitudinal section of a flower, with the corolla re- 
oved ; 7, cross section of mperfectly 2-celled ovary with resin canals in the 
peep 8, cross section of a i waetled ovary ; 9,an ovule; 10, a young fruit.—All 
