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SAPOTACEAE. 



less; flowers about 6 in each, axillary cluster; pedicels brown-furfuraceous, 

 stout, 8-10 mm. long, three times as long as the calys. 



Coastal thickets and scrub-lands, New Providence, Rose Island and Long 

 Island. Endemic. Perhaps a long-leaved, long-pedicelled race of the preceding 

 species. Bahama Bumelia. 



6. MEVnJSOPS L. Sp. PI. 349. 1753. 



Evergreen milky trees, with coriaceous leaves, and lateral, axillary or 

 terminal flowers. Sepals 6-12, in 2 series. Corolla 18-24r-lobed, its tube short. 

 Stamens 6-12, borne on the corolla-tube, the filaments short, the anthers lance- 

 olate; staminodia 6-12, petal-like, toothed or lacerate. Ovary hirsute, 6-12- 

 eelled. Berry sub-globose, the epicarp usually erustaceous. Seeds 1 or 2, 

 oblique, compressed. [Greek, aspect of an ape.] About 40 species, mostly 

 tropical in distribution. Type species: Mimusops Elengi L. 



1. Mimusops emarginata (L.) Britton, Torreya 11: 129. 1911. 



Sloanea emarginata L. Sp. PI. 512. 1753. 



Achras Zapotilla parvifolia NuttaU, Sylv. 3: 28. 1849. 



Mimusops ^parvifoUa Eadlk. Sitz. Akad. Wi^s. Mueneh. 12: 344. 1882. 



Achras bahamensis Baker, in Hook. Ic. 18: pi. 1795. 1888. 



Mimusops floridana Engl. Bot. Jahrb. 12: 524. 1890. 



Mimusops idhamensis Pierre, Not. Sapot. 37. 1891. 



Manilkara parvifolia Dubard, Ann. Mus. Col. Marseille III. 3: 16. 1916. 



A tree, up to 10 m. high, the trunk sometimes 3 dm. in diameter, the twigs 

 stout, the young foliage finely pubescent. Leaves clustered at the ends of the 

 twigs, oblong, 3-10 em. long, emarginate at the apex, narrowed or rounded at 

 the base, glabrous or nearly so when old, the petioles 1-2 cm. long; flowers 

 several or many in the clusters, on tomentose nodding pedicels 1-3 cm. long; 

 sepals tomentose, lanceolate; corolla 1.5-2 cm. broad, light yellow, its linear 

 lobes often toothed at the apex; appendages similar to the corolla-lobes, about 

 one-half their length; staminodia triangular; berry depressed-globose, nearly 

 3 cm. in diameter, scaly. 



Scrub-lands, throughout the archipelago from Abaco and Great Bahama to East 

 Caicos, Ambergris Cay and Inagua : — ^Florida ; Cuba. 



Recorded by Grisebach, by Dolley and by Mrs. Northrop as Mimusops dissecta 

 R. Br. ; recorded by Hltchcocls, by Small and by Coker as Mimusops Sieben DC. 

 Wild Dillx. Catesby, 2 : pi. SI. 



\ 

 7. SAPOTA [Plum.] Mill. Gard. Diet. ed. 7. 1759. 



An unarmed evergreen tree, with alternate coriaceous, oblong to elliptic 

 leaves, and rather large, peduncled, mostly 6-parted, whitish flowers solitary in 

 the axils, the sap milky. Calyx-lobes in 2 series. Corolla urceolate, scarcely 

 longer than the calyx; anthers sagittate; staminodia little shorter than the 

 corolla-lobes. Ovary 10-12-celled; ovules ascending; style slender, exserted; 

 stigma small. Emit a large, rough-skinned berry. Seeds black, shining, the 

 endosperm fleshy. [Aboriginal West Indian name.] A monotypic genus. 



1. Sapota Achras Mill. Gard. Bict. ed. 8. no. 1. 1768. 



Achras Zapota L. Syst. ed. 10, 988. 1759. Not A. Zapata L. Sp. PI. 

 1190. 1753. 



A tree up to about 15 m. high, the bark dark brown, the twigs rather stout, 

 the petioles, peduncles and calyx brownish pubescent. Leaves mainly clustered 



