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AcHiiAS. Flowers 6-merous. Stamens 6. Ovary-cells 12. 



X X Stamens twice as many as petals, or nnmerons. Staminodes none. 

 IsoNANDRA. Flowcrs 4-merous. Stamens 8. Seeds with albumen. Ovary-cells 4. 

 DiCHOPSis. Flowers 6-merous. Stamens 12. Albumen none. Ovary-cells 6. 

 Trib. 2. Anisomeri. Corolla-lobes usually 2—3 times as many as calyx-lobes. 



* Staminodes none. 



X Ovary-cells twice as many as calyx-segments. 

 Hexameria. Calyx-lobes 6. Corolla-lobes and stamens each 12. Ovary-cells 12. 

 Payena. Calyx-lobes 4. Corolla-lobes, stamens, and ovary-cells 8 each. 



X X Ovary-cells as many as calyx-segments. 

 Bassia. Calyx-lobes and ovary-cells 4 or 6 ; corolla-lobes 8 — 14. Stamens about 

 2 or 3 times as many as corolla-lobes, in 1 — 3 series. 



* * Staminodes 6 or 8. 



MiMusops, Calyx-lobes and ovary-cells 6 or 8 each ; corolla-lobes 2 or 3 times as 

 many. 



Chrysophyllum, L. 

 1. Ch. Eoxburghii, a. Don in Mill. Diet. IV. 33 ; Bedd. Sylv. 

 Madr. t. 236. (Ch. acuminatum, Eoxb. Fl. Ind. I. 599, non Lamk. ; Ch. 

 Siomatranum, Miq. Sujopl. Fl. Sumatr. 579.) 



Hab. Rather rare in the tropical forests above Rangoon, Pegu. — Fl. 

 June ; Fr. Dec. 



Sideroxylon, L. 



Conspectus of Species. 



Suhg. 1. Oligotheca, DC. Calyx-lobes acuminate or acute. Young shoots and 

 under-sm-face of leaves more or less villous-tomentose. 



Armed with long solitary supra-axillary spines ; calyx-lobes acute, S. armatum. 



Unarmed ; calyx-lobes acuminate, S. tomentosum, 



Subg. 2. Eti- Sideroxylon. Calyx -lobes rounded or blvmt. 



* Berries 1 — 2-seeded. 



Younger parts coppery or rusty-silk hairy ; leaves coriaceous, S. attenuatum. 



* * Berries several {6— Id) -seeded. 



Glabrous ; leaves chartaceous, S. grandifolimn. 



1. S. TOMENTOSUM, Roxb. Corom. PL I. 28. t. 28 and Fl. Ind. I. 

 602. {Sapota? tomentosa, DC. Prod. VIII. 175). 



Var. y8. SPiNESCENS, the younger brauchlets armed with short sharp 

 spines in the leaf -axils. 



Hab. Not unfrequent in the eng and dry forests of Prome ; var. [B. 

 Pegu, more probably Prome (Dr. Brandis) . 



I have only leaf-specimens, and the identification is, therefore, some- 

 what doubtful. 



2. S. ? PARViroLiuM, Kurz For. Fl. Burm. 11. 576 {Mi^nusops par- 

 vifolia, Kurz For. Fl. Burm, II. 123, excl. flor.) 



Hab. Rather rare in the eng-forests of Prome ; Ava, below Yenang- 

 choung (Wall. Cat. 4146 G.). 



