Mimusops.] XL VIII. SAPOTACEiE. 293 



tree, as described by De Candolle and figured by Wight, is certainly different; for 

 Kurz describes the Bullet-wood with solitary flowers, the fruit depressed-globular, 

 5-6-seeded, and not unlike in shape and size to a wood-apple. The Bullet-wood 

 (Kuppali, Burm.) is a large tree, attaining a girth of 14 ft., with a tall straight 

 stem, 60 ft. clear, which forms nearly pure forests on the level lands along the 

 coast of those islands behind the beach, and the Mangrove swamps. The heart- 

 wood is dark reddish-brown, very strong, close-grained and durable, but apt to 

 split. A large series of experiments which I made with this beautiful wood 

 at Calcutta in 1864 gave the following results : Weight of cub. ft. between 66 

 and 71 lb., average 67.9 lb. Value of P. between 748 and 1091, average 895. 

 Skinner describes, under the name of M. indica (Ptdawa, Tarn.), another, but 

 much lighter wood, believed to have come from the jungles about Tinnevelli, and 

 used for gun-stocks in Madras, weight 48 lb., value of P. 845. I doubt, how- 

 ever, whether this is a sp. of Mimusops. 



In conclusion, I may add that the Australian and Indian Archipelago tree 

 (M. Kauki, R. Br., Browniana, Benth.), with long-petioled obovate leaves, grey 

 beneath (soft with fine densely matted scales or hairs), and large ovoid fruit, 

 1-2 in. long, has been long cultivated in Calcutta. Roxburgh describes (Fl. Ind. 

 ii. 238) and figures it (111. in Hb. Kew., 2480) under the name of M. Koiuki (Bua- 

 sow, Malay), and it is mentioned from Goa in Dalz. & Gibson Bomb. Fl. Suppl. 

 50. In Java it is cultivated on account of the fruit, which is eaten, and it 

 appears probable that the tree was cultivated in Ceylon, so that if Hermann's 

 specimens should belong to it, they may have been gathered from a garden- 

 tree. 



2. M. Roxburghiana, Wight Ic. t. 1588. 



A large tree, differing'from the preceding by elliptic leaves, larger flowers 

 on slender pedicels 1 in. long, calyx-segments ovate-oblong, acute, stam- 

 inodes irregularly jagged, stamens half the length of corolla-segments. 

 Fruit depressed-globose, about 6-seeded. 



Nilgiris, Anamallays, and other forests on the west side of the Peninsula. 



3. M. Elengi, Linn, j Roxb. Cor. PI. t. 14; FLInd. ii. 236; Wight Ic. 

 t. 1586 ; Bedd. Fl. Sylv. t. 40. _ Sans. VaJcula, kesara. Vern. Bukal, 

 Beng., Mahr. ; Mulsari, Maulsdri, Hindi; BarsoM, Bassi, Meywar; 

 Khayaben, Burm. 



A large evergreen tree, glabrous ; only youngest leaves, pedicels and 

 outside of calyx with short rusty pubescence. Leaves coriaceous, shin- 

 ing, wholly glabrous when full-grown, blade about 4 in. long, elliptic, 

 short-acuminate, on petiole J-f in. long. Flowers pure white, fragrant, 

 nearly 1 in. across, in axillary fascicles of 2-6 flowers, drooping, on ped- 

 uncles shorter than, or as long as petiole. Calyx -segments 8, ovate- 

 lanceolate, acuminate. Corolla of 2 circles of lobes, the inner consisting 

 of 8-10 obovate-oblong segments, narrowed at base, alternating with twice 

 their number of linear-oblong lobes of the outer circle, all lobes more or 

 less dentate near the apex. Stamens 8, opposite to the lobes of the inner 

 circle ; anthers long-acuminate, alternating with an equal number of lan- 

 ceolate staminodes, which are shorter than stamens, and densely hirsute 

 on the back with long stiff hairs. Fruit a smooth, ovoid, 1 -seeded berry, 

 yellow when ripe, about 1 in. long. 



Indigenous in the forests of the Northern Circars, Ceylon, and the western 



