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Mimusops.} EBENACE. 649 
‘connate at base, the two outer valvate, enclosing the inner over- 
Petal 
lapping pair, very rarely 5, imbricate. als connate in a cam 
panulate tube; lobes 6-12, usually 8 or 10, contorted in bud. 
Stamens at least twice as many as the corolla-lobes, from 12-40, 
but — 16-20; anthers lanceolate, acute, — often 
onate or excurrent, arpels connate in a villous ovar 
ie “ees cells 4-12, but usually 6 or 8. Fruit a ete ols 
long or ellipsoid, 1-3-, rarely 4-5-seeded berry. Seed ellipsoid ; 
hilum long; albumen 0; cotyledons fleshy, semi-ellipsoid. 
1166. Bassra tarirouia Roxb.; F. I. ii. 526; F. B. I. iii. 544; 
E. D. B. 220. 
W. Bengal; Behar; Chota Nagpur; Orissa. 
A tree, 50 feet high. Hind. Mahua; Beng. Mahwa, 
mahula; Uriya Moha; Santal. Matkom; Kol. Man- 
kadum. The Mahua 
526. Mimusops Linn. 
Trees ; leaves elliptic or obovate, coriaceous ; primary nerves 
many, subparallel, spreading from the midrib, slender or obscure. 
Flowers axillary, pedicelled, solitary or staat Sepals 6 or 8, 
connate below, free and 2-seriate above; ou r lobes 8 or 4, 
valvate, the inner 3 or 4 imbricate. Petals peters in a short 
tube ; lobes 2-3-seriate, from 18-24. Stamens 6-16, usually either 
6 or 8, inserted near base of corolla, opposite the lobes of the inner 
neries ; filaments short ; anthers lanceolate, connective excurrent ; 
staminodes as many as the stamens, entire or serrate or lobed. 
Carpels connate in a hirsute, 6—8- celled ovary; style cylindric. 
Fruit a globose berry with crustaceous endocarp. Seeds 1-6, 
ae eae ellipsoid ; albumen fleshy; cotyledons flat, often 
nearly as e as the see 
1167. echoes ELENGI tans F. I. ii. 2386; F. B. I. iii. 548; 
Cultivated generally. 
A tree 50 feet high, with spreading branches. Hind. 
Malsari; Beng. Bakul; Uriya Baulo. Elengi. 
Order LXXIX. EBENACEZ. 
Trees or shrubs, wood usually hard and heavy. Leaves alter- 
nate, rarely subopposite, entire, usually coriaceous; stipules 0. 
