534 ixxxviii. MTESiNE^. (C. B. Clarke.) {^Beptonia.. 



11. REFTONXA, A. DC. 



A small tree, spinous or unarmed ; branches hoary. Leaves sliort-petioled,. 

 ohovate, entire, coriaceous. Floioers small, hermaphrodite, axillary, sessile in 

 tufts ; hraoteoles small. Calyx-lobes 5, round, imbricate. CoroUa-tuhe short ;. 

 lobes 5, oblong, obtuse, contorted or imbricate. Stamens 5, alternating with & 

 lanceolate-subulate staminodes, filaments linear ; anthers oblong. Ovary hairy, 

 ovoid, narrowed into a cylindric style, stigma small ; ovules 5-7, basal, erect, 

 anatropous. Fruit globose, fleshy, crowned by the style-base, 1- (rarely 2-)" 

 seeded. Seed globose, hollowed at the base, albumen ruminated ; embryo 

 axUe, elongate, curved, cotyledons long, radicle short next the hilum. 



> B. buxifolia, A. DC. Prodr. viii. 153; Boiss. Fl. Oi-iemt. iv. 32; 

 Brand. For. Fl. 287, t. 34. Edgeworthia buxifolia. Falconer in Proe. lAnnv 

 Sac. _\. 129, and in Trans. lAnn. Sac. xix. 99, t. 9. Edgeworthia, sp.. Griff: 

 Notul. iv. 295, and Ic. PI. Asiat. t. 498. Monotheca muscatensis, A. DC. l.c.y 

 Deless. le. Sel. v. t. 35. 



Peshawue ; Falconer, Stewart. — Distbib. Aifghanistan, Muscat. 



Leaves Ij by | in., obtuse, base cuneate, margin recurved, glabrous above,, 

 glaucous beneath ; petiole hardly ^ in. Calyx-lohes less than i in., acute, rusty- 

 puberulous. Corolla scarcely i in., greenish-yellow. Berry J-^ in. diam. 



Oedek LXXXIX. SAFOTACES:. (By C. B. Clarke.) 



Trees or shrubs ; young parts often rusty-tomentose. Leaves alternate (sub- 

 opposite in Sarcosperma), coriaceous, entu-e, petioled ; stipules or very caducous. 

 Flower's hei'maphrodite, small or medium-sized, axillary ; pedicels clustered, 

 rarely solitary (in Sarcosperma flowers panicled) ; bracts and bracteoles 0, or 

 minute. Ccdyx-lobes 4-8, much imbricated, or 2-seriate with the outer series- 

 valvate, persistent. Corollor-tuhe shorter than the calyx, lobes as many, or 2-4 

 times as many as the calyx-lobes. Stamens upon the corolla-tube, as many as 

 the coroUa-lobes and opposite to them, or 2-3 times as many, 1-3-seriate ; fila- 

 ments usually short ; anthers oblong-lanceolatej connective often produced , 

 staminodes, when present, alternating with the stamens. Ovary superior, 

 sessile, 2-8-celled; style linear, stigma a point; ovules solitary in each cell, 

 usually attached to the inner angle. Berry indehiscent, 1-8-seeded. Seed^ 

 ellipsoid; or, if more than one, often compressed, hilum long, testa usually 

 crustaceous; embryo straight, exalbuminous with large fleshy cotyledons, or 

 albuminous with flat cotyledons ; radicle inferior, usuallj^ small. — Distkib. 

 Species 320, in the tropics of the whole world. 



AcHEAs Sapota, lAnn. ( = Mimusops Manilkara, Don) is cultivated in India for 

 its fruit. 



Fruiting branchlets have been communicated by Mr. Cantley, from Perak, of a 

 tree 80-100 ft. high, which yields gutta plentifully: the 4-merous calyx, fruits, and 

 leaves are as in Isoiiandra, bxit the single fragment of a flower indicates a funnel- 

 shaped corolla ^— j in. diam. ; it is attached, and appears to have the remains of many 

 stamens and scales in the corolla-tube. The fragments (not the flowers) are figured 

 by Beauvisage ( Gutta-percha, t. 2) ; and the tree is identified by him with Keratephorits: 

 Leerii, Hassk., erroneously, for in this the corolla is very small. "Without fidler 

 material this tree cannot be safely referred to any genus ; the pedicels of the fruits 

 are 1^ in. long, scattered towards the ends of the branchlets, not well agreeing with 

 Isoncmdra or Dicliopsis. 



