Sideroxylon.] Lxxx. sapotacej: (baker). 503 



corolla-tube, alternate with 5 minute lanceolate staminodes inserted in 

 the same level. Ovary silky ovoid ; style ^ in. long, moderately stout, 

 naked, sulcate at the stigmatose tip. 



Vpper Guinea. Senegambia, Hetidelot! and a plant seen in fruit only "with an 

 ellipsoid glabrous drupe an inch long, with a thin pericarp and single large seed from 

 Liberia, Carder! and a closely allied plant, seen in bud only, from Congo, Prof. C. 

 Smith ! 



4. S. dulcificum, A. DC. Ffodr. viii. 183. A shrub 6 ft. higl 



with slender strict glabrous brownish branchlets. Leaves shortly pe- 

 tioled, exstipulate, obovate-.cuneate, reaching a length of 4-6 in., obtuse, 

 subcoriaceous, glabrous. Flowers few in a cluster, on cemuous ferru- 

 gineo-pilose pedicels ^ in. long. Calyx ferrugineo-tomentose, with 5 

 oblong obtuse segments. Corolla whitish, little longer than the calyx, 

 deeply 6-fid. Stamens 5 ; filaments very short ; anthers oblong, not 

 exserted from the corolla ; staminodes sfetaceous, as long as the sta- 

 mens. Ovary subglobose ; style reaching to the top of the corolla. 

 Fruit the size of a gooseberry, glabrous, succulent, 1-seeded. Seed the 

 same shape as the fruit, with a fragile brown glossy pericarp — Bumelia 

 dulcifica, Thonn & Schum. PI. Gruin. 130. 

 Upper Guinea. Aguapim, Thonnin^. 



5. S. denslflorum, Baker. A tree 30 ft. high, with moderately 

 stout terete branchlets, thinly coated with brownish pubescence at the 

 top. Leaves distinctly petioled, exstipulate ; petiole |-1 in. long ; 

 blade obovate-cuneate, reaching a length of nearly a foot, and a 

 breadth of 4-5 in. above the middle, obtuse or shortly cuspidate, nar- 

 rowed gradually from the middle to the base, subcoriaceous, glabrous 

 on both sides, with 16-20 pairs of distinctly-raised arching main veins. 

 Flowers forming a dense continuous mass on the branchlets both in 

 the axils of the leaves and below them, on slender stiff nearly glabrous 

 pedicels ^^ in. long. Calyx -^^ in. long, thinly matted with brown 

 tomentum ; tube very short ; segments spreading, lanceolate. Corolla 

 twice as long as the calyx ; ttlbe very short ; segments oblong-lanceo- 

 late, reflexing. Filaments subulate, glabrous, as long as the corolla- 

 segments ; anther ovoid -sagittate, very small, -l-^ as long as the fila- 

 ment ; staminodes linear, as long as the corolla-segments. Ovary glo- 

 bose, densely brown-silky, 5- celled ; style slender, glabrous, ^^in. long. 



Upper Guinea. Island of St. Thomas, Mann ! 



6. S. revolutum, BaJcer. A tree 30 ft. high, with slender terete 

 naked branchlets. Leaves distinctly petioled, stipulate ; stipules rigid, 

 linear- subulate, :^| in. long ; petiole -^-l in. long; blade oblanceolate- 

 oblong, reaching a length of 6-8 in., and a breadth of 2^2| in. above 

 the middle, acute, cuneate at the base, subcoriaceous, glabrous on both 

 sides, with 10-12 pairsof arching distinctly-raised main veins. Flowers 

 very like those of S. densiflorum, but fewer and less dense. Pedicels 

 slender, glabrous, stiff, reaching |— | in. Calyx green, y^ in. long, with 

 a very short tube and spreading lanceolate segments. Corolla whitish. 

 j^^ in. long, with a very short tube and reflexing oblong-lanceolate 



