274: SAPOTACE^. (SAPODILLA FAJIILY.) 



Okder 82. SAPOTACE^. (Sapodilla Family.) 



Trees or shrubs, with milky juice, alternate entire exstipulate short- 

 petioled leaves, and regular perfect (small) flowers, commonly in sessile 

 axillary clusters. — Calyx free from the 3-12-celled ovary, 4-8-parted, 

 persistent. Corolla hypogynous, 4 - 8-cleft, mostly with one or two ap- 

 pendages between each lobe. Fertile stamens as many as the lobes of the 

 corolla and opposite them, alternating with as many scale-like or petal- 

 like sterile ones, inserted on the tube of the corolla : anthers extrorse. 

 Ovules anatropous, single, suspended from the central angle of each cell, 

 or ascending from its base. Fruit a drupe or berry. Seeds few. Albu- 

 men fleshy or oily, or none. Embryo straight. 



Synopsis. 



* Calyx 5-parted. 

 4- Corolla with a BiDgle appendage between the lobes. 



1. SIDEROXYLON. Sterile stamens none. Fruit a drupe. Albumen copious. 



•*- -h- Corolla with two appendages between the lobes. 



2. DIPHOLIS. Seed with copious albumen. Sterile stamens fimbriate. Ovarj smootb. 

 8. BUMELIA. Seed without albumen. Sterile stamens entire. Ovary hairy. 



* * Calyx6-8-parted. 

 4. MIMUSOPS. Appendages of the corolla two between the lobes. Stamens 6-8. 



1. SIDEROXYLON, L. 



Calyx 4-parted. Corolla 5-cleft, with a single appendage between the lobes. 

 Stamens 5, the sterile ones none. Ovary hairy, 5-celled. Drupe mostly 1-celIed, 

 1-seeded. Albumen copious. — Tropical trees. Plowers clustered. 



1. S. pallidum, Spreng. Smooth; leaves membranaceous, elliptical, ob- 

 tuse, wavy on the margins, on slender petioles ; clusters few-flowered ; drupes 

 purplish, ovoid. — South Florida. — Leaves 5'- 6' long. Drupe 9" long. 



2. DIPHOLIS, A. DC. 



Calyx 5-parted. Corolla 5-eleft, with two toothed appendages between the 

 lobes. Stamens 5, each alternating with an ovate-lanceolate fimbriate sterile one. 

 Ovary smooth. Beriy juiceless, 1-seeded. Albumen copious, fleshy. — A small 

 tree, with silky branches. Leaves smooth, oblong-lanceolate, obtuse, narrowed 

 into a short petiole. Flowers clustered, on short pedicels. 



1. D. salielfolia, A. DC — South Florida, Dr. Blodgeit. Leaves 2'- 3' 

 long. Calyx silky. Drupe small, oblong. 



3. BUMELIA, Swartz. 



Calyx 5-parted. Corolla 5-cleft, with two appendages between the lobes. 

 Stamens 5, each alternating with a petal-Hke sterile one. Ovary 5-celled, hairy 



