424 LXVIII. SAPOTACE.E [Chrysophyllurtt 



Achras Sapota, Linn. ; the Sapodilla Plum. A native of tropical America, cultivated 

 in India on account of its excellent fr. L. crowded near the ends of the thick branchlets, 

 shining, elliptic-lanceolate, blade 3-6, pet. slender, ^-1 in. long, fl. 6-merous, whitish, 

 stamens 6, alternating with lanceolate staminodes resembling the corolla-lobes, ovary 

 12-celled. Fr. as large as an orange, rind rough, brown, thin, seeds 5 or more. 



3. ISONANDRA, Wight; FL Brit. Ind. iii. 538. 



L. alternate, coriaceous, glabrous. Fl. small, shortly pedicelled or nearly 

 sessile, in more or less dense clusters, axillary or over the scars of fallen 1. 

 Sepals 4, nearly equal, corolla-tube short. Stamens 8, all perfect, no staminodes. 

 Ovary villous, 4-celled, style linear. Fr. ellipsoid, 1-seeded, embryo large, 

 cotyledons flat, in fleshy albumen. Species 4, one in the Sandwich Islands. 



1. I. lanceolata, Wight Ic. t. 359 (1843); Trimen, Handb. Ceylon iii., 

 77.— Syn. J. Wightiana, . A. DC.Prodr. viii. 187(1844) ; /. villosa, Wight Ic. 

 t. 360 ; I. Candolliana, Wight Ic. t. 1220 ; I. Perottetiana, Wight Ic. t. 1219. 



A small or middle-sized tree, young shoots rusty-pubescent, 1. very variable, 

 from lanceolate to broadly and obtusely elliptic, blade 2-6, pet. j in. long 

 sec. n. 6-10 pair, arching, prominent beneath, tertiary n. slender, numerous, 

 transverse, finely reticulate. Calyx rusty-silky, corolla ^ in. long, lobes obtuse, 

 often emarginate, stamens included, anther-tips often hairy, style exserted. 

 Fr. f-1 in. long, scarlet, seed hard, polished. 



Western Ghats above 4,000 ft., from Coorg southwards, common on the Nilgiris. 

 Fl. March-Aug. Ceylon moist region. Five species of Fl. Brit. India are here classed 

 as one. Gamble, Indian Timbers Ed. ii. 445, describes two species from the Nilgiris, 

 structure and weight of wood different, which however in the forest he was unable 

 satisfactorily to recognize. The subject demands further study. 2. I. Stocksii, C. B. 

 Clarke. Concan, Stocks, not found by Talbot, List Ed. ii. 206. L. obovate obtuse, 

 tertiary n. laxly reticulate, not transverse. Fl. sessile on short thick lateral spurs. 



3. I. diplostemon, C. B. Clarke (Diospyros obovata, Wight Ic. t. 1226), an entirely 

 anomalous, imperfectly known species, probably from the Western Ghats, 1. obovate 

 obtuse, glabrous, sepals 4, jietals 5-6, stamens 15-18 1-seriate. 



4. PALAQUIUM, Blanco; Trimen Handb. Ceylon iii. 81. 

 {Dicliopsis, Thwaites ; Fl. Brit. Ind. iii. 540.) 



Trees, fl. 6-merous, cal.-segments in 2 series, the outer 3 valvate, the inner 

 imbricate. Corolla-lobes as a rule contorted in bud, stam. 12-18, in one or two 

 rows on the corolla-tube, anthers extrorse or lateral, connective produced 

 beyond anthers, sometimes bifid. Ovary villous, 6-celled, style simple. Fr. 

 fleshy, seed 1, cotyledons large, oily, albumen 0. 



A. Western species. 



1. P. ellipticum, Benth. {Dicliopsis). — Syn. Bassia eUiptica, Dalz. ; 

 Bedd. Fl. Sylv. t. 43. "Vern. Panchonta, Kan. ; Eat Illupei, Tarn. 



A very tall tree, wood reddish-brown, durable, young shoots, pedicels and 

 calyx minutely rusty^-pubescent. L. approximate near the ends of branches, 

 elliptic or obovate-elliptic, blade 3-5, gradually narrowed into petiole h in. 

 long. Fl. in axillary fascicles of 2-8, pedicels 1-li in., calyx 5, corolla J-| in. 

 long, filaments hairy. Fr. ellipsoid, pulpy, Ik in. long. 



Western Ghats from North Kanara southwards, common in Wainad. Fl. C. S. 

 Yields an inferior kind of Gutta Percha- 2. P. BourdiUoni, sp. nova. Travancore ever- 

 green forests up to 4,000 ft. A small tree, 1. rigidly coriaceous, pale, glabrous, lanceo- 

 late or oblanceolate, blade 5-7, narrowed into petiole J in. long, sec. n. prominent 

 beneath, joined by infra-marginal veins, tertiary n. finely reticulate. Fl. in axillary 

 few-fid. fascicles, pedicels J in., sepals J in. long, obtuse, the outer tawny-tomentose, 

 the inner rusty-pubescent. Corolla glabrous outside, tube less than J the length of 

 the oblong lobes, filaments rusty-hairy, connective obtuse. 



B. Eastern species. 



