498 Lxxx. SAPOTACEiE (bakee). \_ChrysophyUum. 



under surface of the leaves more or less densely coated with brown or 

 whitish silky tomentum. 



An order of about 300 species, widely spread almost exclusively through the 

 tropical zone of both hemispheres. 



Calyx-segments usually 5, not arranged in two distinct 

 rows, 



Staminodes none 1- Chetsophtixum. 



Staminodes alternate with the stamens ...... 2. Sideroxylon. 



Calyx-segments 6 or 8, rarely 10, arranged in two distinct 

 rows. 

 Corolla-segments equal in number to the calyx- segments . 3. Buttrospebmum. 

 Corolla-segments three times the number of the calyx- 

 segments. 



Corolla-segments entire 4. Mmusops. 



Corolla-segments laeenited 5. Imbeicaria. 



1. CHRYSOPHYLLUM, Linn. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PL ii. 653. 

 Calyx campanulate, usually deeply 5- rarely 6-7-partite, the obtuse 

 segments broadly imbricate, not arranged in two distinct rows. 

 Corolla campanulate, little longer than the calyx ; segments as many 

 as those of the calyx, entire, longer than the tube. Stamens as many 

 as the corolla- segments and inserted opposite to them at the throat of 

 the tube ; filaments short ; anthers usually extrorse ; staminodes 0. 

 Ovary villose, usually 5-celled ; ovule medial or basal; style short, entire. 

 Berry fleshy or coriaceous, ovoid or globose. Seeds one or few, if one 

 globose, if more than one compressed; testa coriaceous, opaque or 

 shining ; albumen present ; cotyledons foliaceous or thickened. — Erect 

 trees or shrubs with milky juice, exstipulate coriaceous shortly-petioled 

 entire leaves with mostly prominent parallel main veins and copious 

 small flowers in dense clusters from the axils of the leaves or thickened 

 leafless nodes. 



A genus of about 60 species, mainly Tropical American. It is feebly represented 

 in Tropical Asia, and reaches also Australia, the Sandwich Islands, and two species the 

 Cape. 



Anthers large ; filaments very short. 



Main veins little raised .'.... 1 . C. nagalisrmntanum. 



Main veins very prominent 1. G.I alnifolium. 



Anthers minute ; filaments comparatively long. 



Leaves small (2-3 in. long) . 3. C. prunifoiium. 



Leaves large (^-1 ft. long). 



Leaves naked beneath . 4. C suhnudum. 



Leaves clothed with pale ferruginous or whitish 



tomentum beneath , . . 6. C. alhidum. 



Leaves clothed with bright ferruginous tomentum 



beneath 6. C africanum. 



1. C> magrallsmontanuin, Bonder in Linncea, xxiii. 72. Branch- 

 lets stout and rugose, coated only at the top with thin ferruginous 

 tomentum. Lisaves short-petioled, oblanceolate- oblong, reaching 

 5-6 in. long, 1^-2 in. broad above the middle, emarginate with a 

 mucro at the tip, deltoid at the base, rigidly coriaceous, glossy on the 

 face, thinly coated with adpressed drab silky tomentum beneath, the 

 fine close slightly ascending veins connected by a distinct irregular 



