648 BENGAL PLANTS. [ Achras. 
nate in a wide, almost urceolate corolla ; lobes imbricate, almost 
contorted. Stamens 6, adnate near base of corolla, opposite the 
obes; filaments slender, reflexed above; anthers lanceolate ; 
staminodes 6, petaloid, alternate with and nearly as long as 
corolla-lobes. Carpels connate in a villous, 10-12-celled ovary ; 
style cylindric or thickened in the middle, glabrous; stigma small. 
ruit a fleshy berry, globose or 5-angled. Seeds usually few, 
oblong; hilum lateral; testa hard ; albumen fleshy; embryo with 
thick, flat cotyledons. 
1164. Acuras Sapora Linn. S Fe Bwl, ii, 6345 B.D Al 3t6. 
Cultivated. 
A medium tree, native of America, cultivated for its 
edible fruit. Vernace. Sapota (from the -American 
name). The Sapota. 
524. Dichopsis Thwaites. 
Trees; shoots rusty-tomentose; Jeaves obovate or oblong, 
petioled, coriaceous ; stipules 0. Flowers fascicled, axillary, vie 
on the naked branchlets below a terminal tuft of leaves: pedi- 
celled. Sepals 6, connate below, free and biseriate above, the 
re) Sta 
12, attached near base of corolla, or alternately opposite corolla- 
lobes and near the base and alternate with the lobes and higher 
up, occasionally from 13-18; filaments short or long; anthers 
lanceolate, connective produced, acute or 2-fid, staminodes 0. 
Carpels connate in a, villous, usually 6-celled ovary; style linear. 
Fruit a fleshy, ellipsoid, or ovoid berry. Seeds 2 or solitary; 
testa crustaceous; albumen 0; cotyledons large, fleshy. 
165. DicHopsis poryanrHa Hook. RF, BT bes ee D. 
D. 392. 
Chittagong. 
A tree, 30-40 feet high, said to yield a good gutta-percha. 
Beng. Tali. 
525. Bassia Linn. 
Deciduous trees; leaves petioled, coriaceous, silky or tomentose 
beneath when young, clustered at ends of branches; stipules 
lowers on axi pedicels, among the clustered 
leaves or in the axils of fallen leaves, Sepals 4, 2-seriate above, 
