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LXVIII. SAPOTACE/E 



[Mimusops 



Banda district (Edgew.). Sandstone of Pachmarhi and adjoining hill ranges. Chanda 

 district. Gujarat. Kliandesh. Deccan. Sriharikota (D. B. Nov. 1881). Fl. Nov- 

 Feb. Fr. eaten. Ceylon, dry region. 4. M. Kauki, Linn. Amherst (Wall.). Malay 

 Penins. and Archip. L. obovate, densely silky-white beneath, blade 3-5, pet. 1^-2 in. 

 long. Berry globose, j-1 in. diam., seeds 3-4. 



Fig. 163. — Mimusops hexandra, Roxb. \. 



5. M. littoralis, Kurz F. Fl. ii. 123. Andaman Bullet wood. Vern. 

 Katpaii, Burm. 



A tall tree, quite glabrous, 1. approximate at the ends of thick branchlets, 

 obovate-oblong, blade 5-8, pet. i-1 in. long. Fl. small, solitary, pedicels i-f in., 

 fr. 1-2 in. long, calyx-lobes usually 6, corolla-lobes 18, stamens twice the 

 number of calyx-lobes, alternating with small scale-like starninodes. Berry 

 depressed-globose, 1-1^ in. diam., seeds 5-6. 



Andamans, Coeos and Nicobar islands, forming nearly pure forests. Upper Tenasserim 

 (Kurz). Fl. June, July. 



6. BASSIA, Linn. ; Fl. Brit. Ind. iii. 543. 

 (Illipe, Koenig, Engler in Engler u. Prantl iv. 1. 133.) 



Leaves silky or tomentose beneath when young, stipules caducous. Calyx- 

 segments 4 or 5, imbricate, corolla- tube ovoid or campanulate, lobes 6-12, 

 contorted in bud, stamens usually twice the number of corolla-lobes, anthers 

 lanceolate acute. Ovary villous, 4^12-celled, style long exserted. Fr. a berry, 

 seeds 1-4. Albumen 0, cotyledons large, fleshy, radicle very small. Species 

 30, India, Malaya, Polynesia. 



1. B. latifolia, Roxb. Cor. PI. t. 19 ; Bedd. Fl. Sylv. t. 41. Includes B. 

 villosa, Wall. ; Kurz F. Fl. ii. 122. Vern. Mohwa, Mahua, Hind. ; Madkum, 

 Kol ; Ippi, Sanna Ippa, Tel. ; Kat Ulipi, Tam. 



A large tree, usually with a short trunk and a rounded crown, young shoots, 

 young 1., stipules and pedicels tawny tomentose. L. firm, clustered near ends 

 of branches, elliptic or oblong-elliptic, blade 5-8, pet. l-l- 1 - in. long. Fl. 

 in dense clusters at the ends of branches, pedicels 1-2 in. long, calyx coria- 

 ceous, segments 4 or 5, densely tomentose outside. Corolla § in. long, cream- 



