124 MYRSINES. [Mimusops. 
ally 6) erect-connivent shorter segments opposite the stamens; 
stamens as many as sepals, alternating with as many linear-lanceo- 
late, acuminate, toothed, scale-like staminodes hairy at the base ; fila- 
ments hairy ; anthers very acuminate; berries ovoid, when ripe 
yellow and edible, smooth, about 4-% in. long, by abortion 1-seeded ; 
oblong, compressed. 
Has.—Common in the tropical forests of the Andamans; also Martaban and 
Tenasserim ; in other parts of Burma frequently cultivated in villages.—Fl. Feb. 
and Sept.—s.—SS.=SiS. 
Remarxs.— Wood reddish brown, close-grained, heavy, very hard and dura- 
ble, takes a beautiful polish— O '—61 pd.—Good for house-building and furni- 
ture, and said to last 50 years. Yields the pagoda-gum of Madras. 
3. M. parvifolia, Kz—Probably a small evergreen tree, the — 
young shoots tomentose ; leaves oval to obversely oval, resembling 
much those of Sapota elengoides, acute at the base, on a slender up 
to 4 an in. long petiole, retuse or nearly so, entire, chartaceous, 
glabrous ; flowers like those of M. kauki, on long, glabrous, tolerably — 
thick pedicels ; sepals 6, in two rows; petals linear-lanceolate. 
Has,—Ava.—Fl. Jan, 
_EBENACEZ. 
Flowers regular, usually dioecious, rarely hermaphrodite. Calyx 
3- to 7-lobed, persistent, in the females usually enlarging. Corolla 
gamopetalous, deciduous, 3-7-lobed, the lobes always sinistrorsely 
convolute-imbricate in bud. Stamens in the females either none 
or as many or twice as many as corolla-lobes, distinct and inserted 
styles half the’ number of the cells and 2-lobed, or as many as cells 
and simple. Berry by abortion often few-celled and few-seeded, 
fleshy or coriaceous, the rind sometimes ru turing into as many 
horny, homogeneous or ruminate. Embryo axile or somewhat 
oblique, straight or curved at the apex, the cotyledons leafy, nearly 
as long as the Superior cylindrical radicle.—Trees or shrubs, rarelY 
undershrubs, with alternate or very rarely almost opposite simple 
leaves, the juice watery. Stipules none. Flowers in axillary o 
