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Guatteria (sp.), Wall List. n. 7295 (182832). 



Sapota (sp.), Blanco, Fl. Filip. p. 409 (1837). 



Patonia (sp.), Wight, Illustr. I. p. 19 (1840). 



Gunisanthus, Alph. DC. Prodr. vin. p. 219. n. 3. (1844). 



Eospidios, Alph. DC. I. c. p. 220. n. 4. 



Danzleria, Bert, ex Alph. DC. I. c. p. 224. n. 8. 



Vaccinium (sp.), Wall, ex Voigt, Hort. Suburb. Calcutt. p. 345 (1845). 



Flowers dioecious or rarely polygamous, very rarely monoscious and then casually so ; 

 inflorescence usually short, cyinose, axillary on the young branches, or occasionally arising 

 from the old wood and lateral, more or less pubescent or tomentose, bracteate, 1- few- or 

 many-flowered. Calyx 3 7-lobed, usually 4 5-fid, rarely truncate or obscurely lobed at apex, 

 usually pubescent outside, often accrescent in fruit ; in D. Toposia, Hamilt., closed in bud 

 and afterwards irregularly broken. Corolla urceolate campanulate tubular or salver-shaped, 

 usually pubescent outside at least along the middle line of the lobes and with 3 7 usually 

 4 5 spreading or recurved, rarely erect, obtuse or occasionally acute lobes ; usually con- 

 tracted at the throat, that is, at the top of the tube ; lobes sinistrorsely (as regarded from 

 inside) contorted in bud ; in D. oocarpa, Thw., irregularly imbricated ; never valvate. Stamens 

 in $ flowers 4 oo usually about 16 and more or less united by their filaments in pairs or 

 otherwise, sometimes altogether separate, glabrous or hairy, inserted at the base of the 

 corolla or hypogynous or very rarely about middle of corolla; when in pairs one stamen is 

 placed in front of the other, the interior one being usually shorter than the exterior, some- 

 times equal; anthers oblong linear or lanceolate, never globose nor squarish, often apiculate 

 at the apex by projecting connective, 2-celled ; dehiscing laterally by longitudinal slits or 

 rarely by apical pores ; pollen widely ellipsoidal or globose ; filaments usually shorter than 

 the anthers and slender, sometimes almost obsolete, occasionally geniculate. In $ flowers 

 staminodes usually present and fewer than the stamens in the $ . Styles 1 4, or obsolete; 

 stigma emarginate or punctiform. Ovary in & flowers rudimentary or absent; in $ hairy or 

 glabrous, ovoid conical or globose (in D. Diepenhorstii "stipitato constricted at base"), 4 

 16-celled, usually 8-celled; ovules solitary in the cells, or in the section Cargillia 2 together. 

 Fruit usually globose oblong or conical, glabrous glabrate pubescent hispid or tomentose, 

 often about 1 in. in diameter, but varying from J in. to about 4 inches, often pulpy and 

 edible, with thin or thick skin, containing 1 10 seeds; seeds usually oblong with dark more or 

 less shining testa. Albumen cartilaginous, white and equable or in some species more or 

 less ruminated by sinuous intrusion of the testa; embryo as in the family. Fruiting calyx 

 often accrescent with the lobes erect spreading or reflexed and frequently dilated at the base, 

 sometimes plicate, coriaceous or foliaceous. 



The name is derived from feu?, Sio? Jupiter, and -rrvpo<s grain, with reference to the pre- 

 sumed life-giving properties of the fruit ; but the allusion is by no means obvious. 



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