118 52. MYRSiNEiE. [Ardisia. 



A. humiUs, Vahl. Symb. III. 40; Fl. Br. I. iii. 529 ; Dalz. & Gibs. 

 Bomb. Fl. 137 ; Brandis For F]. 287. Dikna, Vern, In the evergreen 

 forests, throughout the Konkan and North K4nara, usually along the 

 banks of nahis and streams, common. Fl. Apl., May. Fr. ripe Aug. 

 There is a variety of A. humilis, a shrub with crenate, pellucid-punctate 

 leaves and small, white flowers in simple umbels, common near Kdrwar in 

 North Kanara. This was declared to be '^ exacfli/ like A. 2^ohjce^]ialay 

 Wall., in Hb. Wight,'" at Kew. Fl. July, Aug. Fruit ripe Jany. 



JEGICERAS, Gartn. 



A shrub or small tree. Leaves coriaceous, 1-nerved. Flowers 

 iu sessile umbels. Flowers hermaphrodite, white. Calyx-lobes 5, 

 imbricate. Corolla segments 5, acute, twisted to the right iu bud. 

 Stamens 5. Filaments hairy at the base. Ovary oblung, ovules 

 many. Fruit cyliudric, curved 1 -seeded, dehiscent. 



M. majus, Gaertn. Fruct. 1. 216, t. 46, fig. 1 ; Fl. Br. T. 3. 533; Dalz 

 & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 137 ; Bedd. Fl. Sylv. 131). Kanjaln, M. Common 

 near the sea-coast on marshy ground and along creeks. Fl. C.S. 

 Fr. R.S. 



Order 53. SAPOTACE^. 



Trees or shrubs. Leaves alternate, simple. Stipules 0. Flowers 

 axillary, solitary or clustered. Bracts small or 0. Calyx-lobes 

 4-8, 2-3-seriate, the outer series valvate, when 4, decussate, imbri- 

 cate, when 5 ; 2-3 exterior, imbricate. Corolla-lobes as many or 

 twice as many as calyx-segments, imbricate in bud. Stamens on 

 the corolla- tube as many as the corolla-lobes and opposite to them 

 or 2-3-times as many, 1-3-seriate, filaments short, connective often 

 produced, stamiuodes when present, alternating with the stamens. 

 Ovary superior, 2-8-celled, cells 1-ovuled ; ovule usually attached 

 to the inner angle. Fruit a drupe or berry, usually iudehiscent, 

 ]-8-seeded. Seeds ellipsoid, testa bony or crustaceous. Albumen 

 fleshy, or oily, or 0, 



Calyx-lohcs in one series, imbricated. 



Ktaminodes 0. ChrysophylluM. 



Btaminodes present ... Sideroxylon. 



Calyx-lobes 2-seriate, with the outer series val- 

 vate. Calyx-segments 4. 



Stamens 8 Isonandra. 



Stamens 12-40. Corolla deeply lobed Bassia. 



Calyx-segments 6-8. 



t^taminodes 0. Dicnorsis. 



Staminodes present MiMusorai. 



CHRYSOPHYLLUM, Linn. 



Trees. Leaves coriaceous, exstipulate. Flowers in axillary 

 fascicles. Calyx-lobes 5-6, entire, imbricate. Corolla-lobes 5-6, 

 Stamens 5-0 ; stamiuodes 0. Ovary 5-G-ccllcd, villous. Berryflcshy 

 globose. Seeds 5-G. 



