Emhelia.'] lxxix. MYRsmEiE (baker). 497 



1 ia. long from branchlets that bear undeveloped leaves at the tips 

 only; pedicels as long as the flowers, slender, glabrous, spreading or 

 ascending; bracts minute, oblong-lanceolate. Flower-calyx under a 

 line in diameter, campanulate, glabrous ; teeth deltoid. Petals -^., in. 

 long, oblong, with copious dots. Stamens distinctly longer than' the 

 petals ; anthers minute, round-oblong, ^ the length of the subulate 

 glabrous filaments. Fruit not seen. 



Upper Guinea. Banks of the Bagroo River, Mann ! 



3. IS. abyssinica, Baker. A climbing shrub, glabrous in all its 

 parts. Leaves petioled, not crowded on the^ branchlets ; petiole \-^ in. ; 

 blade obovate-oblong, 3-4 in. long, 1-lJ in, broad above the middle, 

 obtuse or subacute, entire, rather rounded at the base, moderately firm 

 in texture, green and glabrous on both sides, with copious minute 

 black dots, the main veins little raised. Flowers in copious oblong 

 racemes 1-lJ in. long, which are sessile on the branchlets below the 

 upper leafy part ; pedicels glabrous, ^-1 in., ascending or spreading ; 

 bracts deltoid, very minute. Flower- calyx campanulate, -^^ in. dia- 

 meter ; teeth deltoid, longer than the tube. Petals oblong, | in. long, 

 copiously black-dotted. Stamens as long as the petals ; anthers 

 minute, oblong, \-l as long as the subulate filaments. Fruit globose, 

 glabrous, i in. diameter, tipped with the slender subulate style, which 

 is y^vj in. long, with a minute capitate stigma. 



XJile Iiand. Abyssinia. Schimper ! 



Order LXXX. SAPOTACE^. (By J. O. Baker.) 



Flowers regular, hermaphrodite. Calyx persistent, with a short 

 tube and 5-10 segments, which are either imbricated irregularly or 

 even in number and arranged in two distinct rows, those of the outer 

 row being valvatc in bud, and those of the inner row not so firm in 

 texture. Corolla deciduous, equal in length to the calyx or a little 

 longer, infundibuliform, campanulate or rarely rotate, the segments 

 equal in number to those of the calyx or 2-3 times as many, if three 

 times as many arranged in two distinct rows, entire or in Imhricaria, 

 lacerated from the top. Stamens in all the tropical African species 

 equal in number to the calyx- segments, inserted at or near the throat 

 of the tube, usually alternating with petaloid starainodes ; filaments 

 short or moderately long, free ; anthers ovate or lanceolate, 2-celled, 

 dehiscing longitudinally. Ovary many-celled, with axile placentation, 

 and one ovule in each cell. Fruit indehiscent, with a pulpy or dry 

 coriaceous pericarp, often by abortion 1- seeded. Seed terete or com- 

 pressed, exalbuminous or albuoainous, the cotyledons usually thickened 

 and fleshy. — Erect trees or shrubs, with milky juice, exstipulate or 

 stipulate petioled entire coriaceous or subcoriaceous alternate leaves, 

 and copious small flowers in umbels from the sides or tips of the un- 

 armed branchlets, the pedicels, calyx and often the branchlets and 



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