118 MYRSINER. [ Achras. 
pressed glossy seeds. Albumen fleshy. Embryo straight, central, 
with an inferior radicle, the cotyledons almost leafy, ovate, flat.— 
Trees, with milky juice and entire coriaceous leaves. Flowers ses- 
sile or pedieelled, clustered in the axils of the leaves. 
. A. sapota, L.; Brand. For. Fl. 288.—7wot-ta-pat.—An 
evergreen tree (40—60 + 15—30 + 3—4), the very young shoots 
awny-puberulous ; leaves crowded at the end of the thick branchlets, 
elliptical to elliptically lanceolate, on a 4-1 in. long petiole, bluntish 
acuminate and almost retuse, entire, coriaceous, 2-3 in, long, glabrous; 
the lateral nerves very obsolete and impressed ; flowers 6-merous, 
whitish, on 3-1 in. long tawny-puberulous pedicels, solitary in the 
axils of the leaves; calyx shortly and densely tawny-tomentose, 
about 3-4 lin. long, the lobes ovate, rather acute; corolla tubular- 
bell-shaped, somewhat longer than the calyx; stamens 6; berries 
oblong to ovoid, the size of an egg, when fully ripe scurfy-rough, 
edible, 10-12-seeded. 
Pst ‘ a ; : 
ae = Nihari Ge now frequently seen cultivated in Rangoon and | 
_ Remarxs.—Wood uniformly brown, close-grained, rather light, hard. Valued 
in South America for the shingles of corn-houses. Bark said to be a sub- 
stitute for chinine. 
CHRYSOPHYLLUM, L. 
Calyx 5, rarely 6-8-parted, the lobes imbricate, 2 of them ex- 
terior. Corolla tubular, or rotate-bell-shaped, 5- rarely 6-8-lobed, 
imbricate in bud. Stamens as many as corolla-lobes and. opposite to 
them, inserted in the tube; anthers ovoid or lanceolate, nearly a8 
long as the slender filament, usually laterally dehiscing. Staminodes 
or scales none. Ovary with as many cells as lobes to the calyx and 
with a solitary ascending ovule in each; style with a bluntish 
stigma. Berry by abortion 1- or few-celled, with as many bot 
seeds. Albumen scanty or none. Embryo axile, large, erect, wit 
a short radicle, the cotyledons thick, ovate, flat.—Trees, with the — 
set often rusty- or silvery-tomentose beneath. Flowers small, 
ustered. 
glabrous, or while very young p rs 
( Hel-veined, the veins thin and numet- — 
ous; flowers minute, 5-merous, yellowish, on 14 to 24 lin. long — 
tawny-pubescent glabrescent pedicels, clustered in the axils of the 
