Imhricarla.'] Lxxx. sapotace^ (baker). 509 



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

 the calyx, 16 in the outer row much imbricated and cut down nearly 

 to the base into narrow linear divisions and 8 in an inner row, which 

 are entire. Stamens 8, placed at the throat of the corolla- tube opposite 

 the segments of the inner row, alternating with linear staminodes ; 

 anther lanceolate; filament short, subulate. Ovary hairy, 8 -celled; 

 style subulate. Fruit globose or ellipsoid, with a thin pericarp. Seed 

 usually solitary by abortion, albuminous, with moderately thick coty- 

 ledons. — Trees with the habit, leaves and inflorescence of Mhnusops, 

 from which they differ only by the lacerated corolla. segments of the 

 outer row. 



Species 4 or 5, the others exclusively Masearene. 



1. X. fragrans, Baker. A low spreading tree, with slender bran- 

 ches, densely coated with ferruginous tomentum. Leaves exstipulate, 

 distinctly petioled ; petiole |-1 in., densely 6omentose ; blade obovate- 

 oblong, 3-4 in. long, 18-21 lines broad above the middle, obtuse or 

 obscurely cuspidate, narrowed gradually from the middle to the base, 

 subcoriaceous, glabrous, pubescent when mature only on the midrib 

 beneath, the veins fine and inconspicuous. Flowers fragrant, placed 

 few together in umbels from the tip and side of the branchlets, on 

 densely ferruginous-tomentose cernuous or ascending pedicels above 

 an inch long. Calyx ^ in. long, coriaceous, densely ferruginous, with 

 a short tube and 8 acute segments, those of the outer row lanceolate 

 of the inner row linear and coated with thinner paler tomentum. 

 Corolla cream-coloured, the 16 segments of the outer row shorter than 

 the calyx, cut down nearly to the base into 4-5 narrow linear divisions ; 

 the 8 segments of the inner row as long as the calyx, ligulate and 

 entire. Stamens shorter than the inner segments ; anthers lanceolate, 

 j| in. long, exceeding the glabrous filaments. Staminodes linear, 

 entire, tomentose on the back. Ovary globose, densely silky ; style h 

 in. long, glabrous, protruded beyond the calyx. 



Upper Guinea. In the Niger country at Yomba, Barter! 



Order LXXXL EBENTACE^. (By W. P. Hiern.) 



Flowers dioecious, rarely hermaphrodite or polygamous, regular. 

 Calyx inferior, gamosepalous, small in flower, often accrescent in°fruit, 

 3-6-lobed or subentire; ajstivation various. Corolla gamopetalous, 

 exceeding the calyx, tabalar urceolate campanulata or rotate, 3 -6-lobed ; 

 lobes usually entire, obtuse and spreading, contorted sinistrorsely in the 

 bud (as seen from inside). Stamens 6-jo , usually 3 or 4 times the 

 number of parts in the corolla, inserted at the base (in one species in 

 the middle) of the corolla ; in female flowers abortive, few or ; an- 

 thers narrow linear or lanceolate ; filaments usually short, connate at 

 the base in pairs or otherwise, or free. Disk 0. Orary solitary, free, 

 2-10- (not 5-, 7-, nor 9-) celled, sessile, in male flowers rudimentary'; 



