ChrysopliyllumJ] LXXXIX. SAPOTACE^. (C. B. Clarke.) 535 



* Calyx-lobes 1-seriate, imbricated (see also Bassia butyracea), stamens 5-6. 



Staminodes 1. CHRYSOPHYLLTJM. 



Staminodes present, flowers sessile or panicled 2. SARCOSPERMA. 



Staminodes present, pedicels axillary clustered 3.' SIDEROXYLON. 



* Calyx-lobes 2-seriate, outer series valvate. 

 f Calyx-segments 4. 



Stamens 8 (in /. diplostemon 16) 4. ISONANDRA. 



Stamens 12-40, corolla lobed half way down 6. BASSIA. 



Stamens 12-24, corolla deeply lobed 7. PAYENA. 



ft Calyx-segments 6-8. 



Staminodes 5. DICHOPSIS. 



Staminodes present 8. MIMUSOPS. 



1. CHRYSOPHYLLU1VI, Linn. 



Trees. Leaves coriaceous, exstipulate. Flowers small, in axillary fascicles. 

 Calyx-lobes 5-6, subequal, imbricated. Corolla-lobes 5-6, entire, imbricate. 

 Stamens 5-6, attached at the base of the corolla-lobes ; filaments short, linear ; 

 anthers ovate ; Staminodes 0. Ovary 5-6- (rarely 7-10-) celled, villous ; style 

 cylindric. Berry fleshy, globose. Seeds 5-6 (or fewer), testa coriaceous, 

 hilum elongate, albumen copious or scanty. Species 60; tropical, mostly 

 American ; a few in Africa, Asia and Australia. 



C. Roxburg-hii, G. Don Gen. Syst. iv. 33; leaves oblong-lanceolate 

 acuminate glabrous, base cuneate, pedicels | in., filaments and style short. 

 A. DC. Prodr. viii. 162; Dalz. $ Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 1S9 ; Bedd. Fl. Sylv. t. 236; 

 Kurz For. Fl. ii. 118, and^w Journ. As. Soc. 1877, pt. ii. 228. C. acuminatum, 

 Roxb. Fl. 2nd. i. 599 ; Wall. Cat. 4160, not of Lamk. 



ASSAM ; Goalpara, Hamilton. KHASIA ; Mariao, alt. 3000 ft., Clarke. SILHET ; 

 Wallich. PEGU ; Kurz. MALACCA ; Griffith, Maingay. 



Attains 40-60 ft. Leaves 5 by l in., parallel-side,d, the acumination often sudden 

 into a short obtuse tail, shining, primary nerves very numerous and close, nearly 

 horizontal, uniting within the margin; petiole in. Corolla-lobes 3- in., obtuse, 

 minutely rusty-pilose. Corolla-tube in., filled with rusty hairs; lobes ^ in. 

 Anthers included, slits introrse or sublateral. Style cylindric, as long as the corolla, 

 obscurely lobed. Fruit 1J in., globose, pulpy, yellow, eaten by the Khasis, when 

 dried strongly 5-6-angled. Seeds 5-6, ^ by ^ in., compressed, very hard. 



VAR. sumatrana, Miq. PI. Ind. Bat. Suppl. 579 (sp.); leaves rusty-villous on the 

 midrib beneath. Prom the Concan southwards and Ceylon, up to 4000 ft. alt. ; 

 Dalzell, Thwaites, &c. DISTRIB. Sumatra. 



2. SABCOSFERZKA, Hook.f. 



Trees. Leaves subopposite, oblong, acuminate, coriaceous ; stipules caducous. 

 Flowers small, fascicled on the branches of a simple or compound panicle, 

 minutely bracteoled. Calyx-segments 5, round, subequal, strongly imbricated. 

 Corolla-tube short ; lobes 5, round, imbricated. Stamens 5, on the corolla-tube ; 

 filaments short ; anthers oblong, obtuse ; Staminodes 5, small, oblong-linear. 

 Ovary glabrous, 2-1-celled ; style cylindric ; ovules ascending. Berry ellipsoid, 

 large, 2-1-celled, 2-1-seeded. Testa crustaceous, hilum nearly basal, albumen 

 ; embryo fleshy. Species 3 ; in North-east India, Birma, Hongkong. 



1. S. arboreum, Benth. in Gen. PL ii. 655; leaves large with pits in 

 the axils of the primary nerves beneath, panicle and calyx pubescent- 



