116 MYRSINER. [ Sapotaceae. 
Calyx-lobes 4 or 6; corolla-lobes and ovary-cells twice as many ; 
amens twice as many as corolla-lobes, in two series. . Payena. 
© O Ovary-cells as many as calyx-lobes 
Calyx-lobes and ovary-cells 4 or 6; corolla-lobes 8-14; stamens 
a times as many as corolla-lobes, in 1-3 series; 
staminodes none 2 ‘ . ‘ . ; . . Bassia, 
Calyx-lobes and ovary-cells 6 or 8 each; corolla-lobes 2 or 3 
imes as many ; staminodes 6 or 8 4 ; ; ‘ - Mimusops. 
SIDEROXYLON, L. 
stamens 5, inserted in the corolla-tube opposite the lobes; anthers 
ovate, blunt, directed outwards, versatile. Staminodes 5, petaloid, 
included and alternating with the stamens. Ovary usually 5-, 
rarely 4- or 2-celled, the style often longer than the ovary, with 
an entire or almost entire stigma. Berry ovoid or globose, by 
abortion usually 3-1-celled with as many slightly compressed glossy 
seeds. Albumen copious. Cotyledons large, leafy, flat.—Trees 
with milky juice, sometimes armed, the leaves glabrous or tomen- 
tose. Flowers usually small or minute, in axillary clusters. 
* Calyx-lobes acuminate or acute. Young shoots and under- 
_ Surface of leaves more or less villous-tomentose. 
Armed with long solitary supra-axillary spines ; calyx-lobes acute. S. armatum. 
8; or nearly so; calyx-lobes acuminate ‘ : a . 8. tomento: 
Calyr-lobes rounded or blunt, 
hc Ae Se a eee 
Young parts coppery or rusty silk-hairy ; leaves coriaceous - « Be s ctensatall 
1. §. tomentosum Roxb. (Achras 4 _+ Bedd. 
Sylv. Madr. 142),—-Tiii-ohe. A” seit ae Roxb. ; 
lobes as long as the cel, : . 
eee , . 
tube pubescent within, the lobes lanceolate ; anthers cordate-ovate, 
acute ; petaloid staminod. "e 
inate, waved, yellow ; berries ovate, the sj f an olive, yellow, — 
usually by abortion 1- or 2-seeded, : sans 
HaB.—Not unfrequent in the d dE districh — 
rare in those of Pegnu, Irrawaddi re Beal ro hg the: Frome fy 
ReEMARxKs.— Wood brown, loose-grained, fibrous, rather heavy. 
