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TABULA 2829. 



POUTERIA SUAVIS, Eemsl 



Sapotaceae. 



p. sun vis, Hemsl in Kew Bull 1906, p. 366 ; species ex affinitate 

 P. Gardnerianae^ Radlk., a qua foliis angustioriLus lanceolatis, floribus 

 dimidio niinoribus et sepalis subaequalibus iiiterioribus baud truneafis 

 emarginatis differt ; etiam P. nernfoUae, Radlk., similis, rccedit floribus 

 multo niinoribus et fructus forma. 



Arhor ramis floriferis rectis graciliusculis appresse sericeis. Folia 

 breviter petiolata, glabra, in ramoruin apicibus couforta, dennim 

 coriacea, anguste oblongaij oblauceolata vel lanceolata, 4-15 cm. longa, 

 saepius circiter 10 cm. longa, l-2'5 cm. lata, apice obtusa vel rotundata, 

 basin versus attenuata, supra nitida, coiispicue venosa. Floret 3-4 mm, 

 diamotro, infra folia ad foliorum delapsorum axillas fasciculati, nume- 

 rosi, podicellis sericeis 3-4 mm. longis. Sepala 4, biseriata, 2 omnino 

 interioraj 2 exteriora, omnia similia, ovata, concava, extus soricea, 

 ciliolata. Corolla fere ad medium 4-Iobata, lobis rotundatis erectis 

 ciliolatis. Staminodia oblonga, ciliolata, corollae lobis alterna, usque 

 dimidio breviora. Stamina corollae lobis isomera et iis opposita, inchisa. 

 Ovariwn villosum, bilocnlare (an semper ?), stylo glabro brevissime 

 cxserto. Fructus pyriformis, 4-5 cm. longus, medio 2*5-2-75 cm. dia- 

 metro, glaber, pericarpio carnoso tenui. Semina saepius 2, semiovoidea, 

 vel I, ovoideum, testa crassa ossea. 



Uruguay : Concepcion del Uruguay, P. G. Lorentz, 1878 ; Iislands 

 of the Uruguay River, E. Frosio, There is also a barren specimen in 

 the Kew Herbarium, collected by John Tweedie, which apparently 

 belongs to this species. 



An account of this tree, as described by Mr. E. Frosio, a botanist 

 and horticnlturist of Paysandu, is given in the Kew Bulletin for 1906, 

 pp. 365-6. Both he and Tweedic state that the fruit, though small, 

 has an extremely agreeable odour and flavour. 



i Mr. Frosio has since written to Kew respecting this tree, which he 

 would refer to Liicuma, and he gives it a difl'rrent specific name under 

 that genus; but we prefer follo^Ming Radllcofer, Engler and others in 

 retaining Povteria as a genus, rather than as a section of Lucunw 



W. BoTTTNft TTemST.FV. 



Fig. 1, a flower ; 2, corolla liu'cl open showing the extrorpr stnmens and Ptamir.rdes ; 

 3,^pi6til ; 4, transverse section of ovary ; 5, fi'uit ; 6, a seod ; 7, cross-section of the 

 same ; 8, embryo, AU except 5 and 6 erdargcd. 



