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GENUS II. SAPOTA. 

 PentandFia Iflonosynla. Sex: Sj/tti 



Deriv. The name of the fruit Sapotiller, Sappodilla, Zapotm, 

 and hence Sapota. 



Gen. Char. Milky trees : branches sometimes spinotis : leaves 

 alternate, entire, coriaceous : flowers axillary : berry like an apple, 

 fleshy : sepals 5-6, obtuse, imbricated : corolla tubuloso-campanu- 

 late, 5-6-lobed, with as many epipetalous scales (sterile stamens) 

 inserted on the tube, alternate with its lobes : stamens 5-6 opposite 

 the lobes of the corolla below the scales : anthers extrorse, 2-celled, 

 dehiscing lengthwise: ovary ovoid, hairy, 5-1 2-celled: style cylin- 

 drical, glabrous : stigma undivided, obtuse : ovules solitary, ascend- 

 ing, anatropous : berry (by abortion) few or 1-seeded, seed nut-like, 

 compressed, elongated, the inner angle furrowed : testa shining : 

 albumen fleshy : embryo central : radicle inferior : cotyledon leafy, 



(1) S. 1 TOMBNTOSA. (Dee.) 



Idtnt. Dec. prod. VIII. p. 175. 



Syn. Sideroxylon tomentosum, Roxh. fl. Ind. II. f. 348. 



Engrav. Roxb. Cor. I. t. 28. 



Spec. Char. , Small tree, unarmed : leaves oval, undulated, 

 obtusely narrowed at the apex, younger ones rufous-tomentose : 

 fascicles of flowers axillary, manyi-flowered : pedicels shorter than 

 the flower and with the calyx silky^pubescent : lobes of the calyx 

 ovate-acute, outer ones broader, corolla twice as long as the calyx ; 

 sterile stamens lanceolate-subulate, hispid outside : berry broad 

 ellipsoid, size of an olive, yellow : flowers small, dull white. 



Mountains of Coromandel and Western Ghauts, flowering in ikt 

 hot season. 



(2) S. EtENGOIDES. (Dec.') 



Idtnt. Dec, prod. VIII. p. 176. 



Engrav. Wight's Icon. t. 1218. — Spicil. t. 141. 



Spec. Char. Large tree : branches often spinous, branchleta 

 tusty-tonientose : leaves acute at both ends, glabrescent, entire : 

 pedicels the length of the petiole and with the calyx clothed with 

 rusty coloured pubescence : lobes of the calyx ovate-acute, the three 

 exterior ones broader : corolla about, twice the length of the calyx, 

 5-cleft, lobes erect, ovate-acute, tube externally hairy: anthers 

 spicniate: sterile stamens oblong-subulate, the length of the sta* 

 mens, the back and margins hairy : flowers axillary, few, white. 



Common on the Neilgherries, flowering all the year. 



