Mimusops.'] LXXXIX. SABOTAGED. (C. B. Clarke.) 549 



Kew except the very complete set collected by Wight ; but Col. Beddome says the 

 tree is common in the Nilgherry and Anamallay forests. 



3. HI. hexandra, Roxb. Cor. PL i. 16, t. 15, and Fl. 2nd. ii. 238; 

 leaves elliptic-obovate obtuse or emarginate, stamens 6 (occasionally 7-8), berry 

 1- (sometimes 2-) seeded. Wall. Cat. 4148, A, B; A. DC. Prodr. viii. 204; 

 Grah. Cat. Bomb. PL 106 ; Dah. # Gibs. Bomb. FL 140 ; Bedd. For. Man. 142. 

 M. indica, A. DC. L c. 205 ; Wight Ic. t. 1587 j Brand. For. FL 291. M. 

 Kauki, Wall. Cat. 4149, A, 0, not of Linn. 



DECCAN PENINSULA and CEYLON, common ; extending north to Gujerat, Banda and 

 the Circars. Cultivated in North-west India. 



A large tree. Leaves 3-4 by l|-2 in., base cuneate or rhomboid, coriaceous, 

 nerves obscure; petiole |-^ in. Pedicels \-% in., 2-5 together, nearly glabrous; 

 clusters subterminal, and along the branches, often dense. Calyx-lobes 6, %~ in., 

 elliptic, subacute, obscurely tomentose or nearly glabrous. Corolla J in. long, white. 

 Staminodes 6-8, serrate or lobed. Berry ^ by ^ in., wider when 2 -seeded. The 

 staminodes are rather more lobed in the well-developed examples. 



4. IMC. XLauki, Linn. Sp. PL 497 ; leaves long-petioled obovate-elliptic 

 fiilky- white beneath, stamens 6-8, berry usually 4-3-seeded. Wall. Cat. 4149, 

 E, upper half ; A. DC. Prodr. viii. 203; Miq. Fl. 2nd. Bat.il 1042 ; Grah. Cat. 

 Bomb. PL 106. M. balota, Blume Bijd. 673. M. dissecta, Br. Prodr. 531, in 

 obs.; Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 3157; A. DC. I.e. 204. M. Hookeri, A. DC. I.e. 

 M. Browniana, Benth. FL Austral, iv. 285. Humph. Herb. Amb. iii. t. 8. 



BIRMA, at Amherst ; Wallich. MALACCA ; Griffith. DISTRIB. Malaya, Tropical 

 Australia. 



A large tree. Leaves 4 by 2 in., obtuse or scarcely acute, base cuneate, nerves 

 obscure ; petiole l-l in. Pedicels 1 in., densely clustered near the ends of the 

 branches, cinnamoneous-tomentose. Calyx-lobes 6, in., ovate, subacute, brown- 

 tomentose. Corolla \ in. long, lobe's narrow, acute. Staminodes 6-8, serrate or lobed. 

 Berry f-1 in. diam., globose, smooth. Among the secondary sheets of Watt. Cat. 

 4148 are Achras Sapota and Sideroxylon ferrugineum. The great difficulty that has 

 been raised over M. Kauki, Linn., has been due to two causes : (1) Wallich identified 

 his Amherst plant, the true M. Kauki, with Roxburgh's Deccan M. hexandra ; (2) 

 botanists, not looking to the fruit, -and perhaps not having it always to look at, have 

 betaken themselves to the degree of notching of the staminodes for diagnostic 

 characters. 



ANOMALOUS SPECIES. 



5. M. LiTTORALis, Kurz For. Fl. ii. 123, and in Journ. As. Soc. 1876, pt. ii. 138 ; 

 leaves large elliptic or obovate glabrous beneath, fruit 1-1 in. diam. 6-5-seeded. 

 M. indica, Kurz Andaman Rep. 42, and in Journ. As. Soc. 1871, pt. ii. 70, not of 

 A. DC. 



ANDAMAN ISLDS. ; Kurz, Heifer (Kew Distrib. n. 3613). NICOBARS; Kurz. 



A tree, 50-80 ft ; all parts quite glabrous. Leaves 7 by 3f in., not acute, base 

 cuneate, coriaceous ; petiole in. Pedicels 1 in., clustered towards the ends of the 

 branches, 1 in each axil. The Kew specimens have no flowers, but represent a large 

 species allied to M. Kauki. Kurz describes the calyx as 6-8-lobed, and the fertile 

 stamens as 12-16, with as many staminodes ; indicative perhaps of a new genus. 

 Andaman Bullet- wood. 



ORDER XC. EBEN ACE1E. (By C. B. Clarke.) 



Trees or shrubs. Leaves alternate, rarely subopposite, exstipulate, entire, 

 usually coriaceous. Flowers usually dioecious, regular, axillary, subsessile or in 

 short cymes, usually bracteate ; pedicels articulated under the flower. Calyx 



