Achras.] SAPOTACE®. . 647 
simple or compound panicles ; bracteoles minute. Sepals 5, con- 
nate below, orbicular, subequal, strongly imbricate. Petals 5, 
connate below in a short tube, orbicular, imbricate. Stamens 5, 
adnate to corolla-tube ; filaments short; anthers oblong, obtuse ; 
large, ellipsoid berry, 2-celled or 1-c elled. Seeds 2 or solitary ; 
testa crustaceous; hilum nearly basal; albumen 0; embryo 
fleshy. 
1162. SarcospERMA ARBOREUM Hook. f.; F, BI. iii. 585; EB, D. 
S. 877 
N. Bengal, Duars 
A large, spreading tree. 
522. Sideroxylon Linn. 
Trees; leaves alternate, lanceolate, elliptic, or obovate ; stipules 
0, Flowers small, in axillary fascicles, subsessile or shortly pedi- 
celled; pedicels more or less hirsute; fascicles sometimes in 
axillary racemes ; bracteoles minute or 0. Sepa 8 5, Pane 
below, subequal, much imbrica ed. Petals 5, sie a cam- 
Fruit an ovoid or globose berry, with usually 4 or 5, but some- 
times 3, 2, or 1 seeds. Seeds usually oblong, much compressed ; 
testa hard; hilum ent - albumen fleshy; embryo with leafy or 
almost fleshy cotyledon: 
1163. SIDEROXYLON ies i Roxb.; F. I. i. 602; F. Bl. 
; E.D ; 
Behar; W. Bengal : Chota Nagpur; Orissa. 
A considerable tree. Uriya Kanta buhol. 
523. Achras Linn 
An evergreen tree ; leaves petioled, <leitered at ends of branches, 
coriaceous, shining, glabrous oF meee hairy; stipules 0. 
Flowers rather large, usually 80. litary, on axillary pedicels ; 
bracts 0. Sepals 6, connate below, free wad biseriate above, the 
3 outer subvalvate, enclosing the 3 imbricate inner. Petals 6, con- 
