642 Lxxviii. SAPOTACE^. [Chrysophyllum 



line a little within the margin ; petiole ^ *o f ^^- ^°^S: robust, 

 puberulous, sulcate when dry ; stipules lanceolate, scarcely acute,, 

 puberulous, deciduous ; flowers whitish, f in. long, densely 

 clustered on the branchlets below the leaves ; peduncles 3^ to |- in, 

 long, strigulose-sUky and glandular, pallid; calyx i in. long, 

 turbinate-campanulate, deeply 5- or 4-lobed, pallid-hairy outside, 

 glabrous inside ; segments imbricate, ovate, obtuse ; glabrous or 

 nearly so, deeply 5-lobed; stamens 5, inserted on the corolla- 

 segments near their bases, opposite, glabrous, exserted ; filaments- 

 ^ in. long ; anthers about as long ; ovary hairy ; style glabrous, 

 columnar, scarcely equalling the filaments, undivided ; fruit edible,, 

 in shape like a cherry, about f in. long, | in. thick, tomentellous 

 (when rather young), apiculate with the persistent style or its^ 

 remains. 



Ptjngg Andongo. — In dense primitive forests along the banks of 

 the river Mangue, sparingly ; without either fl. or fr. March 1857, 

 An ornament to the forests. No. 4827- 



Bumbo. — In the forests of the district ; late fl. and early fr. Oct. 1859. 

 No. 4828. In shady places in Serra de Xella ; a small tree in fr. Oct. 

 1859. No. 4829. 



This species occurred also in the district of Huilla between the 

 town and Humpata, 22 Oct. 1859 ; it is nearly related to C. Maolo- 

 Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C, p. 306, t. 37 (1895), but differs in its stipules^ 

 length of petiole, etc. ; it is also allied to C. magalismontanum Sond. 

 The native name is " Mutambote," and on its mossy bark grew 

 Hepatic n. 251 and Lichen n. 424. 



6. C. Disaeo Hiern, sp. n. 



A large tree, with much milky juice and the general habit of 

 a laurel, even the fruit resembling that of the same genus; 

 branches glabrate, dark-ashy, rather rough ; branchlets leafy, 

 somewhat furrowed, sparingly hairy at the tips, covered with a- 

 cinnamon-coloured bark ; leaves alternate, crowded especially 

 towards the ends of the branchlets, exstipulate, obovate oblanceo- 

 late or elliptical, rounded or obtusely narrowed at the apex, more- 

 or less wedge-shaped to or towards the base, glabrous, of an opaque- 

 green colour, a little glossy above, very pallid beneath, 3 to 12 in. 

 long by 1 to 4i in. broad ; midrib yellowish, strongly raised be- 

 neath and thickening towards the base ; lateral veins numerous- 

 (18 to 20 on each side of the midrib), clearly marked but rather 

 slender beneath, depressed above ; reticulation inconspicuous, de- 

 pressed on both faces in the dry state ; margin narrowly revolute, 

 entire or very nearly so ; petiole |- to |- in. long, puberulous or 

 glabrate ; flowers not seen ; fruit drupaceous, ellipsoidal (when 

 dry), ■!■ in. long, | in. broad, | in. thick, rather shining, glabrate 

 except the apiculate tip, with the persistent adpressed puberulous- 

 hard rather woody calyx at the base, 1 -celled, 1 -seeded ; fruiting 

 peduncles puberulous, hard, lateral on the branchlets below the 

 leaves, |^ to ^ in. long, in the approximated axils of fallen leaves, 

 solitary or a few together in each such axil, ascending or spread- 

 ing ; fruiting calyx about ^ in. in diameter, shortly 5-lobed, the 

 lobes rounded, glabrous within ; seed (when dry) ellipsoidal. 



