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alternate, sessile, lanceolate, entire, glabrous, shining above. 
Flowers solitary or many in clusters, sessile, arising from the 
trunk; sepals 10; corolla lobes 6—7, long clawed. Fruit very 
large, 6-12 in. in diam. indehiscent, orbicular, very strongly 
depressed, more or less grooved, deeply umbonate, pericarp thick, 
woody when dry, many seeded. Seeds oblong, compressed, 1 in. 
long, $ in. broad. (Trans. Linn. Soc. Series 2, 1. 1895, p. 15). 
'  Ill.—Pal. de Beauv. Fl. Ow. Ben. i. tt. 9, 6; Lam. Encycl. 
t. 966; Engler, Monogr. Afr. Pflan. Sapotaceae, t. 3, f. B. 
Vernac. name.—Otimbalilo? (W. Africa, Christy). 
Oware, S. Nigeria (Palisot de Beauv. Ley 
There is no specimen of this tree in the Herbarium at Kew, and 
species. Omphalocarpum fruits first attracted attention about 
30 years ago when a few were imported into Liverpool from West 
Africa, said to produce a bird-lime like substance (Pharm, Journ.). 
The fruits when freshly cut from the trunk exude a sticky 
substance which disappears as it gets dry. 
Kep.—'' Proximate Analysis of the Fruit of Omphalocarpum 
procera," Naylor, in Pharm. Journ. [3] xii. 1881, pp. 478 
480, and pp. 488—489; abstract in New Comm. Pl. and Drugs, 
‘Christy, No. 5, 1882, pp. 54-55. 
Bassra, Koenig. 
i in. long and 1 in. broad in the centre or widest part. Outer 
shell thin, easily broken after removal of the kernel which cut 
through the centre crosswise is oval in section 1 in. by 3 in. 
Iil.—Roxburgh in Asiatic Researches, viii. t. 1; Brandis, 
Illustr. For. Fl. India, t. 35 
Vernac. names.—Phalwara (Gamble).—Butter Tree of India. 
Native of India.—Introduced to Botanie Garden, Old Calabar, 
from Kew in 1896. 
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