] Lxxxix. SAPOTACBJ!. (C. B. Clarke.) 549 



Kew except the very complete set collected by Wight ; but Col. Beddome says the 

 tree is common in the Nilgherry and Anamallay forests. 



3. m. hexandra, Soxb. Cor. PL i. 16, t. 15, and Fl. Ind. ii. 238; 

 leaves elliptic-obovate obtuse or emarginate, stamens 6 (occasionally 7-8), berry 

 1- (sometimes 2-) seeded. Wall. Cat. 4148, A, B; A. DC. Prodr. viii. 204; 

 Grah. Cat. Bomb. PI. 106 ; Dalz. ^ Oibs. JBomb. Fl. 140 ; Pedd. For. Man. 142. 

 M. indica, A. DO. I. c. 205 ; Wight Ic. t. 1587 ; Brand. For. Fl. 291. M. 

 Kauki, WaU. Cat. 4149, A, 0, not of Imn. 



Dbocan Peninsula and Ceylon, common ; extending north to Gujerat, Banda and 

 the Circars. Cultivated in North-west India. 



A large tree, heaves 3-4 by 1^2 in., base cuneate or rhomboid, coriaceous, 

 nerves obscure ; petiole \-\ in. Pedicels J-j in., 2-5 together, nearly glabrous ; 

 clusters subterminal, and along the branches, often dense. Calyx-lobes 6, ^^ in., 

 elliptic, subacute, obscurely tomentose or nearly glabrous. CorMa \ in. long, white. 

 Staminodes 6-8, serrate or lobed. Serri/ J by J in., wider when 2-seeded. — The 

 Btaminodes are rather more lobed in the well-developed examples. 



4. DK, ILauki, Linn. Sp. PI. 497 ; leaves long-petioled obovate-elliptic 

 silky-white beneath, stamens 6-8, berry usually 4-3-seeded. Wall. Cat. 4149, 

 E, upper half; A. DC. Prodr. viii. 203 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. ii. 1042 ; Ch;ah. Cat. 

 Bomb. PI. 106. M. balota, Blume Bijd: 673. M. diasecta, Br. Prodr. 531, in 

 dbs.; Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 3157; A. DC. I.e. 204. M. Hookeri, ^. DC. l.c. 

 M. Browniana, Benth. Fl. Austral, iv. 285.— iJwmpA. Serb. Amb. iii. t. 8. 



BiBMA,. at Amherst; Wallich. Malacca; Griffith. — Disteib. Malaya, Tropical 

 Australia. 



A large tree. Leaves 4 by 2 in., obtuse or scarcely acute, base cuneate, nerves 

 obscure ; petiole 1-lJ in. Pedicels 1 in., densely clustered near the ends of the 

 branches, cinnamoneous-tomentose. Calyx-lobes 6, \ in., ovate, subacute, brown- 

 tomentose. Corolla | in. long, lobes narrow, acute. Staminodes 6-8, serrate or lobed. 

 Berry J-1 in. diam., globose, smooth. — ^Among' the secondary sheets of WaU. Cat. 

 4148 are Achras Sapota and Sideroxylon femiginewm. The great difficulty that has 

 been raised over M. Kamki, Linn., has been due to two causes : (1) Wallich identified 

 his Amherst plant, the true M. Kauki, with Eoxburgh's Deccan M. hexandra ; (2) 

 botanists, not looking to the fruit, and perhaps not having it always to look at, have 

 betaken themselves to the degree of notching of the staminodes for diagnostic 

 characters. 



ANOMALOUS SPECIES. 



5. M. LiTTOEALis, KmzFoT. Fl. ii. 123, and in Journ. As. Soc. 1876, pt. ii. 138; 

 leaves large elliptic or obovate glabrous beneath, fruit 1-1^ in. diam. 6-5-seeded. 

 M. indica, Kurz Andaman Sep. 42, and in Journ. As. Soc. 1871, pt. ii. 70, not of 

 A. DC. 



Andaman Islds. ; Kure, Heifer (Kew Distrib. n. 3613). Nicobaes ; Kure. 



A tree, 60-80 ft ; all parts quite glabrous. Leaves 7^ by 3J in., not acute, base 

 cuneate, coriaceous ; petiole f in. Pedicels 1 in., clustered towards the ends of the 

 branches, 1 in each axil. — The Kew specimens have no flowers, but represent a large 

 species allied to M. Kauki. Kurz describes the calyx as 6-8-lobed, and the fertile 

 stamens as 12-16, with as many staminodes ; indicative perhaps of a new genus. — 

 Andaman Bullet-wood. 



Okdek XC. EBENACEH:. (By 0. B. Olarke.) 



Trees or shrul)s. Leaves alternate, rarely subopposite, exstipulate, entire, 

 usually coriaceous. Flowers usually dioecious, regular, axillary, subsessUe or in 

 short cymes, usually bracteate ; pedicels articulated under the flower. Calyx 



