ChrysopTiyllum.'] lxxx. sapotace^ (baker). 499 



arch a little •^thin the margin. Flowers in copious crowded clasters 

 on very short ferruginous silky pedicels. Calyx campanulate, under 

 I in. long ; segments broad oblong, obtuse, much imbricated, clothed 

 with thin ferruginous silky tomentum. Corolla little longer than the 

 calyx, with a short tube and oblong segments. Anthers lanceolate, 

 nearly as long as the corolla-segments, much longer than the deltoid 

 filament. Ovary densely silky ; style short. 



Soutli Central. Highlands of the Batoka country. Also Cape, Dr. Kirk ! 



2. C. ? alnifolium, Baher. A tree 50-60 ft. high, with slender 

 strict purplish-brown terete branchlets, clothed only at the top with 

 loose feiTuginous tomentum. Leaves short-petioled, obovate, reachino" 

 a length of 6-8 in., and a breadth of 3^-4 J in. above the middle, 

 obtuse or emarginate at the tip, regularly deltoid in the lower third, 

 less coriaceous in texture than in any of our other species, naked 

 except a little tomentum on the ribs of the under surface, with are in 

 10-12 pairs, erecto-patent and very prominently I'aised and connected 

 by distinctly raised cross-bars. Flowers seen in the bud stage only, 

 when they form dense clusters sessile in the axils of the leaves. Calyx 

 with a very short tube and 5 oblong segments densely coated with 

 loose ferruginous tomentum. Corolla campanulate, with a short tube 

 and oblong segments. Anthers oblong, shortet* than the corolla-seg- 

 ments in this early stage, and filaments very short. Ovary globose, 

 densely hairy ; style very short. 



Vpper Cuinea. In the Niger country at Onitsha, Barter ! 

 This is the Tropical African plant mentioned as a doubtful Lucuma by Bentham 

 in Gen. Plant, ii. Qtb^^. 



3. C. prunifolium, Baker, A tree 30 ft. high, the short slender 

 nodular branches clothed at the tip with adpressed dark ferruginous 

 silky tomentum. Leaves oblong, distinctly petioled, reaching a length 

 of 2-3 in., and a breadth of 1 J-l| in. above the middle, shortly ob- 

 tusely cuspidate, deltoid at the base, rigidly subcoriaceous, green and 

 naked above, persistenth' clothed with thin silky bright ferruoinous 

 tomentum beneath, with 10-12 pairs of very much raised erecto-patent 

 main veins which reach the margin. Flowers in copious clusters in 

 the axils of the leaves and on the nodes of the leafless lower part of 

 the branchlets, seen in the bud stage only ; pedicels very short. Calyx 

 minute, with a very short tube and 5 much imbricated roundish obtuse 

 segments, clothed with ferruginous pubescence. Corolla-segments 

 oblong. Anthers minute. Ovary densely silky ; style short. 



trpper Guinea. Fernando Po, Mann ! 



4. C. subnudum, Baker. A tree, 30 ft. high, with slender 

 branchlets, only very thinly coated with ferruginous tomentum at the 

 tip. Leaves distinctly petioled (^-| in.), oblanceolate-oblong, reach- 

 ing a length of 5-6 in., and a breadth of 2 in. above the middle, 

 acute, deltoid at the base, rigidly coriaceous, glossy above, opaque 

 and naked beneath, with 8-10 pairs of arcuate ascending strongly 

 raised main veins. Flowers in copious clusters in the axils of the 



