294 SABOTAGED. (.SAPODILLA FAMILY.) 



ORDER 83. SAPOTACE^. (SAPODILLA FAMILY.) 



Trees or shrubs, with milky juice, alternate entire exstipulate short- 

 petioled leaves, and regular perfect (small) flowers, commonly in 

 sessile axillary clusters. Calyx free from the o - 12-celled ovary, 4 - 

 8-parted, persistent. Corolla hypogynous, 4 - S-cleft, mostly with one 

 or t\vo appendages between the lobes. Fertile stamens as many as 

 the lobes of the corolla and opposite them, alternating with as many 

 scale-like or petal-like sterile ones, inserted on the tube of the corolla : 

 anthers extrorse. Ovules anatropous, single, suspended from the cen- 

 tral angle of each cell, or ascending from its base. Fruit a drupe or 

 berry. Seeds few. Albumen fleshy or oily, or none. Embryo 

 straight. 



Synopsis. 

 * Calyx 5-parted. 



H- Corolla without appendages. 



1. CHRYSOPHYLLUM. Sterile stamens none. Fruit a berry. 



i- i- Corolla with a single appendage between the lobes. 



2. SIDERJXYLON. Sterile stamens none. Fruit a drupe. Albumen copious. 



i- -i- -t- Corolla with two appendages between the lobes. 



3. DIPHOLIS. Seed with copious albumen. Sterile stamens fimbriate. Ovary smooth. 



4. BUMELIA. Seed without albumen. Sterile stamens entire. Ovary hairy. 



* * Calyx C - 8-parted. 



5. MIMUSOPS. Appendages of the corolla two between the lobes. Stamens G - 8. 



1. CHRYSOPHYLLUM, L. 



Calvx 5-partecl. Corolla 5-parted, without appendages. Stamens 5. Ovary 

 5_ 10-celled. the ovules ascending. Berry mostly 1-celled, 1 -seeded. Albu- 

 men scantv. Tropical trees. Leaves thick, silky beneath. Flowers small, 

 in axillary clusters. 



1 . C. oliviforme, Lam. Branchlets, etc. with copper-colored pubescence ; 

 leaves oblong-ovate, acute, entire ; pedicels shorter than the petiole; corolla 

 white; "berry black. 1 -seeded." South Florida. A small tree. Leaves 

 2' -4' long. 



2. SIDEROXYLON, L. 



f'nlvx r>-parted. Corolla 5-cleft, with a single appendage between the lobes. 

 Stamens 5, tlio sterile ones none. Ovary hairy, 5-relled. Drupe mostly 1- 

 celled, 1 seeded. Albumen copious. Tropical trees. Flowers clustered. 



1. S. pallidum, Spreng. Smooth ; leaves membranaceous, elliptical, ob- 

 tuse, wavy on the margins, on slender petioles ; clusters few-flowered ; drupe 

 yellowish, ovoid South Florida. Leaves 5' -6' long Drupe 9" long. 



