Mimusops.'] Lxxx. sapotace^ (baker). 607 



staminodes. Fruit yellow, glabrous, the size of a bullace. Seeds 3-4 

 maturing, ellipsoid, laterally compressed, with a crustaceous pale 

 brown testa and thick amygdaloid cotyledons. 



Soutli Central. Highlands of Batoka country, Dr. Kirk ! 

 Mozamb. 3>lstr. In Zambesi -land at Senna and Tette, Dr. Kirk! 



4. BX. lacera, Baker. A tree 40-50 ft. high, yielding a substance 

 like gutta-percha, with terete slender naked branchlets. Leaves 

 petioled, exstipulate ; petiole ^-1 in. ; blade obovate-oblong, 4-6 in. 

 long, 2-3J in. broad above the middle, obtuse, cuneate at the base, 

 rigidly coriaceous, glabrous on both sides, with numerous fine little- 

 raised erecto-patent main veins. Flowers in dense umbels from the 

 axils of the leaves and below them on slender straight glabrous pedicels 

 J— I in. long. Calyx green, coriaceous, campanulate, subglabrous, ^ 

 in. long ; tube very short ; outer segments oblong- lanceolate, inner 

 oblong. Corolla whitish, as long as the calyx, with 18 entire linear 

 segments. Stamens 6, rather shorter than the corolla-segments, alter- 

 nating with 6 lacerated lanceolate staminodes as long as themselves ; 

 anthers oblong-lanceolate, about as long as the filaments. Ovary 

 globose ; style ^ in. long. Fruit glabrous, ellipsoid, an inch long. 



Upper Guinea. Nupe, Barter ! Banks of the River Nun, Mann ! . 



5. M. Sohixnperi, Hochst. m Schirnp. Fl. Abyss, n. 697. A large 

 tree, with slender glabrous branchlets. Leaves petioled, exstipulate ; 

 petiole 1-lJ in. ; blade oblong, 3-5 in. long, 1^2 in. broad at the 

 middle, obtuse or subacute, deltoid at the base, subcoriaceous, glabrous 

 on both sides, with fine main veins. Flowers in umbels from the 

 axils of the leaves on nearly glabrous spreading or ascending pedicels 

 about ^ in. long. Calyx coriaceous, ^ in. long, thinly coated with dull 

 brown ferruginous tomentum, with a very short tube and 8 acute seg- 

 ments, the outer row lanceolate, the inner linear. Corolla with a very 

 short tube and 24 linear segments, equal in length to those of the 

 calyx. Stamens 8, included, the oxtrorse lanceolate anthers larger 

 than the subulate glabrous filaments. Staminodes 8, linear, nearly as 

 long as the corolla- segments, tomentose on the back. Ovary globose, 

 pilose ; style not protruded beyond the corolla. Fruit ellipsoid, gla- 

 brous, 1-seeded, 1-1^ in. long. — A. Rich. Fl. Abyss, ii. 22. 



xrile Xiand. Mountains of Abyssinia, /Scamper/ 



6. DK. Kirkii, Baker. A handsome spreading tree with slender 

 nearly glabrous branchlets. Leaves petioled, exstipulate ; petiole ^1 

 in. ; blade obovate- oblong, 2-4 in. long, l^-lf i^- broad, obtuse, 

 cuneate at the base, subcoriaceous, glabrous on both sides, with fine 

 main veins. Flowers few together in umbels from the leaf-bearing 

 nodes, on arching pedicels ^-f in. long, coated with thin brown tomen- 

 tum. Calyx coriaceous, \ in. long, with a very short tube and 8 

 segments, the 4 outer ones lanceolate and coated with brown tomentum, 

 the 4 inner ones linear and coated with drab tomentum. Corolla as 

 long as the calyx, with a short tube and 24 linear segments. Stamens 

 8, nearly as long as the corolla-segments ; anthers lanceolate, longer 



