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and ovary present the same characters as Myrsinece ; the fruit is a curved 1-seeded (hy arrest) follicle. 

 The seed is upright, and germinates in the pericarp ; its membranous integument tears during germination 

 and caps the cotyledonary end. The embryo, as in many aquatic plants, is exalhuminous ; the cotyledons 

 form a cylindrical tube, and the radicle is inferior. 



CXXXVII. SAPOTE^E, 

 , Jussieu. SAPOTE^E, Br. SAPOTACE^E, Endl.) 



TREES or SHRUBS with milky juice. LEAVES alternate, entire, coriaceous, 

 exstipulate. FLOWERS 3 > axillary. CALYX 4-8-partite. COROLLA monopetalous, 



Sideroxylon 

 imbricarioides. 

 Flower (mag.). 



Sideroxylon. 



Transverse section 



of ovary. 



Achras Sapota. 



Transverse section 



of seed. 



Sideroxylon. 



Flower cut vertically, showing the 

 stamens opposite to the lobes of Sideroxylon, 

 the corolla (mag.). Ovule. 



Argania. 



Fruit cut transversely to 



show the different parts of the 



pericarp, kernel and seed. 



Argania. 



Kernel formed by 



the cohesion of 



2 seeds. 



Achras Sapota. 



Vertical section of fruit,. showing 

 the seeds with a bony integument. 



Achras Sapota. 



Seed, entire and cut vertically 

 (mag.). 



Argania. 

 Drupaceous fruit, 

 2-3-celled by abortion. 



hypogynous, regular, [4-8- lobed, eestivation imbricate, sometimes in two series]. 

 STAMENS inserted on the corolla, the fertile equalling in number the corolla-lobes, 

 and opposite to them, or more numerous, 2- (or more) seriate, sometimes with alter- 

 nating staminodes ; anthers usually extrorse, [dehiscence longitudinal] . OVARY many- 

 celled ; style conical or cylindric ; stigma acute or capitellate } ovules solitary in the 



