534 



LXXXVIII. MYRSINE2E. (C. B. Clarke.) 



[Reptonia* 



11. REPTONIA, A. DC. 



A small tree, spinous or unarmed ; branches hoary. Leaves short-petioled, 

 obovate, entire, coriaceous. Flowers small, hermaphrodite, axillary, sessile in 

 tufts ; bracteoles small. Calyx-lobes 5, round, imbricate. Corotta-tube short ; 

 lobes 5, oblong, obtuse, contorted or imbricate. Stamens 5, alternating with 5 

 lanceolate-subulate staminodes, filaments linear ; anthers oblong. Ovary hairy, 

 ovoid, narrowed into a cylindric style, stigma small ; ovules 5-7, basal, erect, 

 anatropous. Fruit globose, fleshy, crowned by the style-base, 1- (rarely 2-) 

 seeded. Seed globose, hollowed at the base, albumen ruminated ; embryo 

 axile, elongate, curved, cotyledons long, radicle short next the hilum. 



R. buxifolia, A. DC. Prodr. viii. 153; Boiss. Fl Orient, iv. 32 ; 

 Brand. For. Fl. 287, t. 34. Edgeworthia buxifolia, Falconer in Proc. Linn. 

 Soc. i. 129, and in Trans. Linn. Soc. xix. 99, t. 9. Edgeworthia sp., Griff. 

 Notul. iv. 295, and Ic. PL Asiat. t. 498. Monotheca muscatensis, A. DC. I. c. - r 

 Deless. Ic. Sel. v. t. 35. 



PESHAWUR ; Falconer, Stewart. DISTBIB. Afghanistan, Muscat. 



Leaves l by | in., obtuse, base cuneate, margin recurved, glabrous above,, 

 glaucous beneath ; petiole hardly in. Calyx-lobes less than ~ in., acute, rusty- 

 puberulous. Corolla scarcely ~ in., greenish-yellow. Berry \-^ in. diam. 



ORDER LXXXIX. SAPOTACEJE. (By C. B. Clarke.) 



Trees or shrubs ; young parts often rusty-tomentose. Leaves alternate (sub- 

 opposite in Sarcosperma), coriaceous, entire, petioled ; stipules or very caducous. 

 Flowers hermaphrodite, small or medium-sized, axillary; pedicels clustered, 

 rarely solitary (in Sarcosperma flowers panicled) ; bracts and bracteoles 0, or 

 minute. Calyx-lobes 4-8, much imbricated, or 2-seriate with the outer series- 

 valvate, persistent. Corolla-tube shorter than the calyx, lobes as many, or 2-4 

 times as many as the r ilyx-lobes. Stamens uj)on the corolla-tube, as" many as 

 the corolla-lobes and opposite to them, or 2-3 times as many, 1-3-seriate ; fila- 

 ments usually short; anthers oblong-lanceolate, connective often produced; 

 staminodes, when present, alternating with the stamens. Ovary superior,, 

 sessile, 2-8-celled; style linear, stigma a point; ovules solitary in each cell, 

 usually attached to the inner angle. Berry indehiscent, 1-8-seeded. Seeds 

 ellipsoid; or, if more than one, often compressed, hilum long, testa usually 

 crustaceous ; embryo straight, exalbuminous with large fleshy cotyledons, or 

 albuminous with flat cotyledons ; radicle inferior, usually small. DISTRIB, 

 Species 320, in the tropics of the whole world. 



ACHRAS SAPOTA, Linn. ( = Mimusops Manilkara, Don) is cultivated in India for 

 its fruit. 



Fruiting branchlets have been communicated by Mr. Cantley, from Perak, of a 

 tree 80-100 ft. high, which yields gutta plentifully : the 4-merous calyx, fruits, and 

 leaves are as in Isonandra, but the single fragment of a flower indicates a funnel- 

 shaped corolla ^-f in. diam. ; it is attached, and a'ppears to have the remains of many 

 stamens and scales in the corolla-tube. The fragments (not the flowers) are figured 

 by Beauvisage (Gutta-percha, t. 2) ; and the tree is identified by him with Keratephorus 

 Leerii, Hassk., erroneously, for in this the corolla is very small. "Without fuller 

 material this tree cannot be safely referred to any genus ; the pedicels of the fruits- 

 are 1^ in. long, scattered towards the ends of the branchlets, not well agreeing with 

 Isonandra or Dichopsis. 



