Mimusi>p.i.] LXXV. SAPOTACEiE. 961 



Albumen copious ; cotyledons broad and flat. — Trees or shrubs. Leaves usually 

 with fine parallel veins. Flowers axillary, on recurved pedicels, usually larger 

 than in Sideroxylon. 



The genus ia dispersed over the tropical regions of the New as well as the Old World, 

 extending into extratropical South Africa. Of the 2 Australian species, one extends to the 

 Indian Archipelago, the other is not quite identical with, but closely allied to, a common E. 

 Indian one. — Benth. 



Calyx-segments, stamens, and inner corolla-lobes 8. Leaves ovate, not white 



underneath 1. M.parvifoUa. 



Calyx-segments, stamens, and inner corolla-lobes 6. Leaves broad, whitish 

 underneath 2. il/. Browniana. 



1. M. parvifolia (leaves small), B. Br, Prod. 531 ; Benth. Fl. Austr. iv. 

 284. " Ngoru," Batavia Kiver, Both. A stout bushy tree, often very low 

 on the seacoast, attaining in other situations 30 to 40ft., the branchlets, young 

 foliage, and inflorescence clothed with a loose rusty pubescence, which more 

 or less disappears from the full-grown leaves. Leaves on rather long petioles, 

 ovate or elliptical, obtuse or acuminate, finely veined, green on both sides or 

 pale underneath, 2 or . rarely Sin . long. Flowers solitary or 2 together in the 

 upper axils, on pedicels of fin. or more. Calyx-segments 8 (rarely 7), lanceolate,- 

 acuminate, about 3 lines long, the 4 outer ones pubescent, the inner ones 

 thinner and more glabrous. Corolla-tube very short ; lobes lanceolate, 16 outer 

 ones in 2 or 3 rows, 8 inner ones broadly lanceolate, very acute and shortly 

 stipitate. Perfect stamens 8. Filaments very short ; anthers sagittate, 

 acuminate ; staminodia 8, alternating with the stamens, linear-lanceolate, with 

 long awn-like points and a few long cilia near the base. Ovary densely hirsute, 

 8-celled ; ovules erect from the inner angle. Fruit nearly globular. Seed erect, 

 oblong, more or less compressed ; hilum small, orbicular, almost basal ; albumen 

 copious.— A. DC. Prod. viii. 203 ; F. v. M. Fragm. v. 162. 



Hab.: Cape York, W. Hill; islands of Gape Flinders, A, Cunningham; estuary of the 

 Burdekin, Fitzalan ; Fort Denison, Edgecombe and Bockingham Bays, Dallachy. 



Very nearly allied to the common Indian M. Elengi, differing chiefly in the looser, usually 

 rusty pubescence, in the longer peduncles, smaller flowers, and much narrower calycine seg- 

 ments. — Benth. 



Wood of a pinkish colour, close in grain, and easy to work. — Bailey's Cat. Ql. Woods No. 267. 



Wood used for womeras. Roth. 



2. M. Browniana (after Dr. Robert Brown), Benth. Fl. Austr. iv. 285. 

 " Undoour," Princess Charlotte Bay, Both. A tree of irregular growth. Leaves 

 on rather long petioles, obovate, broadly ovate or allmost orbicular, visry obtuse, 

 thickly coriaceous, finely and almost parallel veined, whitish or almost rusty 

 underneath. Flowers in the upper axils (clustered at the ends of the branches), 

 on recurved pedicels shorter than the petioles. Calyx-segments 6, in 2 rows, 

 ovate-lanceolate, acute, about 3 lines long, reflexed under the fruit but not 

 enlarged. Corolla scarcely longer than the calyx, with 12 outer and 6 inner 

 lobes, all narrow, acute, the inner ones almost stipitate. Stamens 6, opposite 

 the inner lobes ; anthers acuminate ; staminodia 6, alternating with them, petal- 

 like, as long as the corolla, jagged at the end. Ovary 6-celled ; ovules erect from 

 the inner angle. Fruit ovoid or almost globular, at least lin. long. Seeds 1 or 

 2, large, more or less compressed ; hilum broadly linear, more than half the 

 length of the seed. — M. Kauki, R. Br. Prod. 531, not of Linn. ; M. Kauki, var. 

 Broioniana, A. DC. Prod. viii. 203. 



Hab.: Islands off Cape Fear, JJ. Broiojj ; Cape Flinders, Bodd's Bay, and Endeavour Biver, 

 A. Cunningham ; islands off Cape Bedford, Howiok's Group, F. v. Mueller. 



Also in the Indian Archipelago (Java, Harsfield), and the Malayan Peninsula (Griffith). 



Wood red, fine grained, and easily worked. — Bailey's Cat. Ql. Woods No. 267a. 



