Jhttyrospermum.'] lxxx. sapotace.e (baker). .505 



Oliv. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxix. 104, t. 73. Bidyrospermnm ulluticmji, 

 Kotschy PI. Knobl. t. 1. 



Upper Guinea. Kingdom of Banibara, -where it was discovered by Mungo 

 Park. In tho Niger country at Nupc, JeLa, &c., BarUr! Abbeokuta, Dr. Irving ' 



Xrile Iiand. White Nile. jB/»</rr ; Gondrkoro, Knohhchcr ; Djur, Kosanga and 

 the Niamniam country, Heiiglin ; Madi, Col. Grant! 



2. B.? ILirkii, Bal'er. A low tree, with short glabrous terete 

 ultimate branches. Leaves crowded at the end of the branches with 

 \ery short petioles and very minute linear stipules ; blade obovate- 

 cuneate, 2-3 in. long, obtuse or subcuneate, narrowed gradually from 

 the middle to the base, glabrous on both sides, rigidly coriaceous, with 

 the erecto-patont main veins of the under surface not at all prominent. 

 Flowers seen in young bud only, arranged in dense umbels at the end 

 of the branchlets, on erecto-patent pedicels \—^ in. long, densely coated 

 with ferrnginous tomentum. Calyx coriaceous, densely clothed when 

 young with ferruginous tomentum, with 8 lanceolate acute segments 

 in two distinct roAvs. Corolla with a short tnbe and 8 oblong segments. 

 Anthers lanceolate. Staminodes oblong, entire. Fruit round-oblong, 

 glabrous, an inch long, with a coriaceous pericarp and one exalbuminous 

 seed which has very thick cotyledons filling it np. 



Mozamb. Bistr. Mombasa, at an elevation of 300 ft., Dr. Kirk J 



4. MIMUSOPS, Linn. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. ii. p. 66L 



Corolla with a short tube and either 6 or 8 segments, arranged in 

 two distinct rows, those of the outer row firmer in texture and valvate 

 in bud. Corolla with a short tube and 3 times as many segments as 

 the calyx, 12 or 16 in one outer row, and the other 6 or 8 in an inner 

 row, opposite two segments of the outer row and the stamens. Sta- 

 mens 6 or 8, inserted at the throat of the corolla-tube, about as long 

 as the segments ; anthers lanceolate ; filaments short, subulate ; stami- 

 nodes petaloid, alternate with the stamens, inserted at the same level. 

 Ovary hairy, globose ; style subulate, entire, long or short. Berry 

 globose or oblong, with a crustaceous epicarp. Seed often solitary, 

 albuminous ; cotyledons moderately thick. — Erect trees or shrubs, with 

 milky juice, exstipulate short-petioled coriaceous or subcoriaceous 

 usually glabrous leaves and copious small flowers in simple lateral 

 umbels. 



A genus of about 30 species, spread through the Tropics of both hemispheres 

 and three species extending to the Capo. 

 Parts of the flower in sixes. 

 Flowers ~-^ in. long. 

 Staminodes acute, entire. 



Veins fine immersed \. M. cuncifolia. 



Veins many, distinctly raised 2. M. multincrvis. 



Staminodes truncate toothed Z. M. Mochisia. 



Flowers ^ in. long 4. J/, laccra. 



Parts of the flower in eights. 

 Flowers \ in. long. 



Style not protruded beyond tho calyx b. M. Schimperi. 



