1877.] Knowledge of tlie Burmese Flora. 229 



Very like >S^. elengoides. It is rather a small tree, spiny armed, but 

 Wallich's incomplete specimen (although doubtless identical) is unarmed. 

 The flowers (loose) attached to Wallich's specimen resemble those o£ Mimu- 

 sops littoralis, and I now entertain little doubt that they do not belong at 

 all to the leaf- specimens. 



3. S. ATTENUATTJM, DC. Prod. VIII. 178 ; Wight Icon. t. 1590 ; 

 Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. II. 1037. 



Hab. Tropical forests of Tenasserim, from Moulmein (Falconer) 

 down to Mergui (Heifer, Gfiff., etc.) ; also Andamans, Narcondam island.^ — 

 Fl. March. 



4. S. GEAKDiPOLiUM, Wall, in Eoxb. Fl. Ind. II. 3 19 ; DC. Prod. 

 VIII. 178.— f/S'. regium, Wall. Cat. 4156). 



Hab. Martaban, hill-ranges between the Beeling and Sittang (Dr. 

 Brandis) ; Pegu (Wall.) ; tropical forests of the Andamans. — Fl. April ; Fr. 

 Febr., March. 



The seeds of this species are albuminous. 



Sareosperma, Hf. 

 1. S. AiiBOEETJM, Hf. in Bth. Gen. PI. II. 655. (Sideroxylon arho' 

 reum, Ham. ; Sapotea, Griff. Not. Dicot. 291. t. 501), 

 Hab. Upper Burma, Namyoon (Griff.). 



Achras, L. 



*1. A. Sapota, L. sp. pi. 470 ; Jacq. Amer. 57. t. 41 ; Bot. Mag. t. 

 8111—12 ; Eoxb. Fl. Ind. II. ISl.— (Sapota Achras, Mill. Diet. No. 1. j 

 DC. Prod. VIII. 174 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. II. 1036). 



Hab. Of American origin, now frequently planted along roads at 

 Rangoon and other larger stations. — Fl. RS. 



Isonandra, Wight. 

 Conspectus of S^pecies. 

 8ubg. 1. Eu-Isonandra. Flowers 4-merous. Seeds albuminous. 

 Subg. 2. Apobassia, DC. Flowers 4- or 6-merous. Seeds without albumen. 



* Flowers 4:-merous. 



Leaves chartaceous, strongly nerved, i. caloneura, 



* * Calyx ^-parted., the 3 outer segments valvate (Dichopsis, Thw.). 



Leaves coriaceous, glaucous beneath, the nerves obsolete ; filaments as long as the an- 

 thers, densely villous, I- polyantha. 



Leaves coriaceous, glaucous beneath, the nerves strong and parallel ; filaments long and 



slender, -^- obovata. 



1. I. CALONEUEA, Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. 1871. 69 and 

 1873. 88 (calophylla).—(Bassia caloneura, Kurz in Andam. Rep. 41). 



Hab. Not unfrequent in the tropical forests of the Andamans. — Fr. 

 May. 



